Emergency medicine and internal medicine trainees' smartphone use in clinical settings in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Smartphone technology offers a multitude of applications (apps) that provide a wide range of functions for healthcare professionals. Medical trainees are early adopters of this technology, but how they use smartphones in clinical care remains unclear. Our objective was to further characterize smartphone use by medical trainees at two United States academic institutions, as well as their prior training in the clinical use of smartphones.

Methods

In 2014, we surveyed 347 internal medicine and emergency medicine resident physicians at the University of Utah and Brigham and Women's Hospital about their smartphone use and prior training experiences. Scores (0%-100%) were calculated to assess the frequency of their use of general features (email, text) and patient-specific

SUBMITTER: Raaum SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4671182 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature