Management of the Electronic Health Record Inbox: Results From a National Survey of Internal Medicine Program Directors.

ABSTRACT: Background Internal medicine (IM) resident physicians spend a considerable amount of time managing their inbox as part of their longitudinal continuity clinic experience. There are no standardized guidelines for how programs should train, monitor, or supervise residents in this type of patient care. Objective To understand how IM residency programs educate, monitor, and supervise resident electronic health record (EHR) inbox management as part of their longitudinal continuity clinic and determine whether patient safety events have occurred due to EHR inbox-related patient care decisions made by unsupervised resident physicians. Methods In August 2021, 439 program directors at accredited US IM residency programs who were members of the Association of Program Directors i

SUBMITTER: Vaa Stelling B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10686644 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature