Tıp Fakültesi Öğrencilerinin Bilgi Okuryazarlık Düzeyleri ile Çevrimiçi Bilgi Arama Stratejileri Arasındaki İlişkinin İncelenmesi (Hacettepe Üniversitesi Örneği)

Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship between medical students’ level of information literacy and the development level of their strategies to search information online according to various variables, and thus to determine the possible relation between them. Methods: The research design of this study was survey model. The working group of the study was composed of medical students who were at their first, second and third year at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine during the academic year of 2017-2018. The data of the study were collected from 462 volunteer students electronically. The data were gathered by means of using “Personal Information Form,” “Online Information Search Strategies Inventory,” “Scale of Information Literacy” and “Students’ Opinions Form.” The quantitative data of the study were analysed with SPSS 22. The qualitative data were analysed according to the themes and sub-themes that had been prepared by the researchers.Results and Conclusion: It was found that students’ self-efficacy perception level about information literacy and the development level of their strategies to search information online were both medium, and that there was a positive relation between them at a medium level. On the other hand, students that were studying at the first year and with have high grade were found to have significantly higher levels of information literacy and online search strategies development than the students studying at the other two years. This difference is thought to result from the fact that during the academic year when the study was carried out, students studying at the first year received a sub-module of ‘Information Literacy’ within the framework of the programme called ‘Faculty of Medicine – I am Learning to be a Physician.’ The qualitative data show that students decide on keywords before they start to do research online, choose a suitable database, evaluate the conformity of the gathered information with their own goal, resort to peer support and make a comparison with their foreknowledge