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A mixed-methods study of pharmacy instructors' early experiences with a teaching electronic medical record
Omolola A Adeoye-Olatunde1, Olga O Vlashyn2, Kimberly S Illingworth Plake1
1Purdue University College of Pharmacy, 575 W Stadium Ave, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States.
Introduction:
As use of electronic medical records (EMRs) increases in healthcare, multiple accreditation organizations recommend training future clinicians on EMRs as part of the academic curriculum. Therefore, some pharmacy programs now utilize an academic EMR. Our objective was to examine pharmacy instructors' early experiences with a commercially available teaching EMR (tEMR) in order to identify current and future priorities along with benefits and barriers to academic EMR use in pharmacy education.
Methods:
We conducted semi-structured interviews and a web-based survey with pharmacy instructors. Interview and survey data analyses consisted of hybrid inductive/deductive approaches to coding data and descriptive statistics, respectively. We mapped themes to the Pharmacists' Patient Care Process (PPCP).
Results:
Seven instructors participated in interviews, and 10 completed the survey. We identified 25 interview themes that were generally congruent with survey responses. A noted benefit of the tEMR was providing a large repository of real-life patient data. Instructors' current priorities for tEMR activities primarily aligned with "collect," "assess," and "plan" steps of the PPCP. One reported barrier was insufficient training regarding the tEMR capabilities. Instructors offered innovative ideas for future academic EMR use, including pharmacokinetics, incident reporting, and longitudinal cases.
Conclusions:
Study findings are most applicable to pharmacy programs in the early stages of academic EMR adoption. We identified opportunities for pharmacy programs to facilitate innovative, future use of academic EMRs, including curriculum planning, so pharmacy students gain experience using EMR functions for each PPCP step and develop more advanced EMR skills.
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