Utilising Mobile Electronic Health Records in Clinical Education

Abstract

The use of electronic health records (EHRs) in clinical environments to manage patient care is changing clinical practice; however, the explicit teaching of EHR-related skills to trainee clinicians is often lacking in medical curricula. The novelty of EHR-related skills training means there is little evidence on what is considered best practice: it is currently unclear which methods or tools are most effective. In this chapter, the authors present findings from a mixed methods study with thirty-four undergraduate medical students on clinical placement. The study had two major aims: (1) to investigate the effectiveness of a student-centered EHR system as a tool for learning EHR-related skills..