title: Do electronic health records help undergraduate students develop health informatics competencies?
abstract: In this paper we describe 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 in-depth and higher quality case study answers after working with the educational EHR.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Elizabeth M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Borycki
authors.affiliation: School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Janessa
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Griffith
authors.affiliation: School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Paulette
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reid
authors.affiliation: School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Mu-Hsing
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.affiliation: School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Andre W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Kushniruk
mesh_terms: D001955:British Columbia; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*