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What are your thoughts?
What are your thoughts?
I wholeheartedly disagree. Some notes may be difficult to read, but it isn't "crippling" or worthy of crossing a program off a list. Try reading a note when the EMR system shuts down for a few hours. It happens. No system is perfect.I dont have enough experience to say whether it would be useful with the CA part of residency, but I chose not to apply to pre-lim/TY that I knew didnt have an EMR. Ive found that paper charts are often illegible, and that can be crippling when youre on medicine wards for example.
Switching to electronic charting takes about ten minutes to adjust to.
Playing the devils advocate. Electronic charting is important especially if your on a heavy research track residency. My residency had a great electronic record which was really easy to data mine. Sp it can help.
I certainly wouldn't choose a residency because of EMR, but having a (great) EMR gives me time to do lots of other things in the OR. Bring patient in room, hook up monitors click 2 buttons and never worry about data for the rest of the case.
The best thing about EMRs is that they keep people honest.