Do electronic health records help undergraduate health informatics students to develop health informatics competencies?
The purpose of this paper is to determine the effects of hands-on exposure to an educational electronic health record (EHR) system upon undergraduate health informatics (HI) student competency development. We undertook a quasi-experimental study (i.e. pre-test, post-test design), where students were given the opportunity to do hands-on work with an educational EHR over a 10 week period. HI student competencies were measured pre and post educational EHR exposure. Several HI student competencies improved significantly following hands-on work with the EHR. As well, students provided more higher quality case study answerfollowing EHR use.
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Elizabeth M
EM
Borycki
Janessa
J
Griffith
Paulette
P
Reid
Andre W
AW
Kushniruk
Mu-Hsing
MH
Kuo
D001955:British Columbia; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods