The Electronic Medical Record and Nephrology Fellowship Education in the United States: An Opinion Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

An unintended consequence of electronic medical record use in the United States is the potential effect on graduate physician training. We assessed educational burdens and benefits of electronic medical record use on United States nephrology fellows by means of a survey.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We used an anonymous online opinion survey of all United States nephrology program directors (n=148), their faculty, and fellows. Program directors forwarded survey links to fellows and clinical faculty, indicating to how many they forwarded the link. The three surveys had parallel questions to permit comparisons.

Results

Twenty-two percent of program directors (n=33) forwarded surveys to faculty (n=387) and f

SUBMITTER: Yuan CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7341781 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature