Electronic Health Record Skills Workshop for Medical Students.

ABSTRACT: Introduction:The adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) presents new challenges for information gathering, documentation, and patient care. Medical students spend a significant amount of time using the EHR during their clerkship experiences and will continue to do so as they progress to residency. However, formal training varies between institutions and leaves gaps in data-gathering skills, documentation skills, and order entry-these three skills formed the basis for our learning objectives. We designed a workshop using a simulated EHR to teach these skills. Methods:We offered the workshop during a class-wide transition-to-internship course for senior medical students. After a brief didactic, students worked in small groups using a simulated EHR to complete cases addressing each of t

SUBMITTER: Zavodnick J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6946580 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature