A Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine. / Case based instruction (CBI) in medical education is a well established alternative to lecture format in the training of first and second year medical students. There have been previous documented attempts to include technology in CBI that have received positive feedback from students. Electronic health records are now being mandated by 2014 and historically there have been many barriers to adoption including lack of EHR technical skills by physicians. As a result, biomedical informatics education is being integrated into medical school curriculum with hope that better understanding of medical applications will prepare future physicians to utilize them. There has been no documented evidence of successful utilization of a commercial grade EHR within CBI despite many potential benefits in doing so. Previous attempts at accomplishing this task have been discovered but multiple challenges were encountered in developing a suitable educational EHR and as a result the attempt was unsuccessful. The following is a design project with the aim of highlighting specific design requirements, as well as, a theoretical usage scenario of a commercial grade EHR in CBI. Outlined as well is experimental design for future evaluation of such a system. There will be many
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technological challenges that will need to be overcome and numerous resource requirements to get such a project functional. Despite this, all aspects of such a system are technologically feasible. Completion of such a system could result in potential commercial benefit and provide a platform for further investigation of early EHR training effect on physician-EHR acclimation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/221244 |
| Date | 30 April 2012 |
| Creators | Germain, Michael |
| Contributors | The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, Silverman, Howard, MD |
| Publisher | The University of Arizona. |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the College of Medicine - Phoenix, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. |
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