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    Acad Emerg Med. 2006 Jul;13(7):733-9. Epub 2006 May 24.

    An automated electronic case log: using electronic information systems to assess training in emergency medicine.

    Nagler J, Harper MB, Bachur RG.

    Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. joshua.nagler@childrens.harvard.edu

    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.

    PMID: 16723724 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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