Self-Perceptions of Readiness to Use Electronic Health Records Among Medical Students: Survey Study
| Autor: | Kristen Cook, Lina Lander, Regan Taylor, Helena E. Gali, Thomas Hatch, Linda Awdishu, Sally L. Baxter, Gary L Cochran |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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020205 medical informatics
Demographics media_common.quotation_subject health care facilities manpower and services education 02 engineering and technology Health records Experiential learning 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Perception health services administration 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 030212 general & internal medicine health care economics and organizations media_common Ability to work Medical education lcsh:LC8-6691 lcsh:R5-920 Original Paper training Descriptive statistics lcsh:Special aspects of education Core competency Survey research electronic health record Computer Science Applications medical student Psychology lcsh:Medicine (General) residency |
| Zdroj: | JMIR Medical Education JMIR Medical Education, Vol 6, Iss 1, p e17585 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2369-3762 |
| Popis: | Background Although several national organizations have declared the ability to work with electronic health records (EHRs) as a core competency of medical education, EHR education and use among medical students vary widely. Previous studies have reported EHR tasks performed by medical students, but students’ self-perceived readiness and comfort with EHRs are relatively unknown. Objective This study aimed to better understand medical students’ self-perceived readiness to use EHRs to identify potential curricular gaps and inform future training efforts based on students’ perspectives. Methods The authors deployed a survey investigating self-perceived comfort with EHRs at 2 institutions in the United States in May 2019. Descriptive statistics were generated regarding demographics, comfort level with various EHR-related tasks, and cross-institutional comparisons. We also assessed the impact of extracurricular EHR experience on comfort level. Results In total, 147 medical students responded, of which 80 (54.4%) were female, with equal distribution across all 4 years of training. Overall confidence was generally higher for students with longer extracurricular EHR experience, even when adjusted for age, gender, year of training, and institution. Students were most comfortable with tasks related to looking up information in the EHR and felt less comfortable with tasks related to entering new information and managing medications. Fourth-year students at both schools reported similar levels of comfort with EHR use, despite differences in preclinical EHR training. Open-ended comments emphasized the value of experiential training over didactic formats. Conclusions Information entry and medication management in the EHR represent areas for future curricular development. Experiential training via extracurricular activities and early clinical exposure may be high-yield approaches to help medical students achieve critical EHR competencies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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