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Educational Instruction on a Hospital Information System for Medical Students During Their Surgical Rotations

Educational Instruction on a Hospital Information System for Medical Students During Their... AbstractObjective: To evaluate the benefit, for medical students on their surgical rotations, of real-time educational instruction during order entry on a hospital information system.Design: Prospective controlled trial.Intervention: Access to educational information during computerized order entry.Subjects: Medical students in their final year at the University of Calgary.Main outcomes: Attainment of the surgery rotation educational objectives, as measured by performance on a multiple-choice examination.Methods: Before they began their surgical rotations, students at two hospitals took a multiple-choice examination to measure their knowledge of surgery. One hospital had an information system with computerized order entry; students at this hospital had access, while composing orders, to educational material on the system. The other hospital did not have an information system; students there wrote orders on a paper chart. At the end of the rotation, all students took another multiple-choice examination.Results: Of 50 eligible students, 45 agreed to participate in the project, 21 in the treatment group and 24 in the control group. Pre-rotation scores were similar for the two groups (43 percent in the treatment group and 40 percent in the control group; SD, 10 percent). Post-rotation scores were identical for the two groups (65 percent in the treatment group and 65 percent in the control group; SD, 12 percent). A t-test analysis revealed no significant difference in performance on the examinations between the two groups.Conclusion: This study did not demonstrate a learning advantage for medical students who have access to educational material on a hospital information system. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Oxford University Press

Educational Instruction on a Hospital Information System for Medical Students During Their Surgical Rotations

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Copyright
American Medical Informatics Association
ISSN
1067-5027
eISSN
1527-974X
DOI
10.1136/jamia.2001.0080111
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Abstract

AbstractObjective: To evaluate the benefit, for medical students on their surgical rotations, of real-time educational instruction during order entry on a hospital information system.Design: Prospective controlled trial.Intervention: Access to educational information during computerized order entry.Subjects: Medical students in their final year at the University of Calgary.Main outcomes: Attainment of the surgery rotation educational objectives, as measured by performance on a multiple-choice examination.Methods: Before they began their surgical rotations, students at two hospitals took a multiple-choice examination to measure their knowledge of surgery. One hospital had an information system with computerized order entry; students at this hospital had access, while composing orders, to educational material on the system. The other hospital did not have an information system; students there wrote orders on a paper chart. At the end of the rotation, all students took another multiple-choice examination.Results: Of 50 eligible students, 45 agreed to participate in the project, 21 in the treatment group and 24 in the control group. Pre-rotation scores were similar for the two groups (43 percent in the treatment group and 40 percent in the control group; SD, 10 percent). Post-rotation scores were identical for the two groups (65 percent in the treatment group and 65 percent in the control group; SD, 12 percent). A t-test analysis revealed no significant difference in performance on the examinations between the two groups.Conclusion: This study did not demonstrate a learning advantage for medical students who have access to educational material on a hospital information system.

Journal

Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOxford University Press

Published: Mar 1, 2001

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