Medical Students’ Perception on the Use of QR Code Versus Traditional Pen-and-Paper as an Attendance Record Tool in Medical School

Abstract

JOURNAL OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICINE VOL. 6 ISSUE 3 DECEMBER 2017 2 Background: Student attendance at teaching-learning sessions is traditionally registered using pen-and-paper. This method has many weaknesses: lost, hard to verify, attendance-by-proxy, late submission. The Quick-Response Code is a two-dimensional barcode that can be read with a QR reader on a smartphone that captures and instantly transmits information to a cloud storage. We describe the use of a QRC method to register medical students’ attendance and assessed their perception of this method compared to PAP.