Digital supervision in the clinical learning environment: Characterizing teamwork in the electronic health record.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Attending physicians in academic hospitals work in supervisory team structures with medical residents to provide patient care. How attendings utilize the electronic health record (EHR) to support learning through supervision is not well understood.

Objective

To compare EHR behavior on teaching versus direct care, including evidence of supervisory calibration to learners.

Methods

Cross-sectional study analysis of EHR metadata from 1721 shifts of hospital medicine faculty at a large, urban academic medical center, January to June 2022. Measures included total EHR time per shift, EHR time outside shift, and time spent on: note-writing, note review/attestation, order entry, and other clinical review. We assessed within physician differences across these service

SUBMITTER: Cross DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11963744 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature