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An Automated Electronic Case Log: Using Electronic Information Systems to Assess Training in Emergency Medicine
Author(s) -
Nagler Joshua,
Harper Marvin B.,
Bachur Richard G.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1197/j.aem.2006.02.010
Subject(s) - accreditation , medicine , graduate medical education , medical education , training (meteorology) , medical emergency , patient care , medline , nursing , physics , meteorology , political science , law
As part of the Outcome Project of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, training programs are required to evaluate trainees across six general competencies. Assessment of the patient‐care competency by direct observation can be supplemented with a quantification of overall experience through the use of case logs. However, manual entry of information into such registries frequently is incomplete. The authors report on the development of an automated electronic case log as a novel tool for evaluating the experience of individual trainees or an entire training program. Specific examples of use of the case log are provided. The authors use a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship as a paradigm to demonstrate the potential utility across all emergency medicine training programs. In addition, the authors discuss how additional information technologies might be incorporated to further these evaluative efforts in the future.