title: Using the Electronic Health Record to Identify Educational Gaps for Internal Medicine Interns.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  An important component of internal medicine residency is clinical immersion in core rotations to expose first-year residents to common diagnoses.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Quantify intern experience with common diagnoses through clinical documentation in an electronic health record.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed all clinical notes written by postgraduate year (PGY) 1, PGY-2, and PGY-3 residents on medicine service at an academic medical center July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2014. We quantified the number of notes written by PGY-1s at 1 of 3 hospitals where they rotate, by the number of notes written about patients with a specific principal billing diagnosis, which we defined asdiagnosis-days. We used the International Classification of Diseases 9 (ICD-9) and the Clinical Classification Software (CCS) to group the diagnoses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We analyzed 53 066 clinical notes covering 10 022 hospitalizations with 1436 different ICD-9 diagnoses spanning 217 CCS diagnostic categories. The 10 most common ICD-9 diagnoses accounted for 23% of diagnosis-days, while the 10 most common CCS groupings accounted for more than 40% of the diagnosis-days. Of 122 PGY-1s, 107 (88%) spent at least 2 months on the service, and 3% were exposed to all of the top 10 ICD-9 diagnoses, while 31% had experience with fewer than 5 of the top 10 diagnoses. In addition, 17% of PGY-1s saw all top 10 CCS diagnoses, and 5% had exposure to fewer than 5 CCS diagnoses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Automated detection of clinical experience may help programs review inpatient clinical experiences of PGY-1s.
authors.forename: Alvin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rajkomar
authors.forename: Sumant R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Ranji
authors.forename: Bradley
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sharpe
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D002140:California; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods*