Abstract
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.
Date of this Version
2021
Recommended Citation
ADEOYE-OLATUNDE, OMOLOLA A.; Vlashyn, Olga O.; Plake, Kimberly; Woodyard, Jamie L.; Weber, Zachary A.; Litzelman, Debra K.; and Russ-Jara, Alissa L., "A mixed-methods study of pharmacy instructors' early experiences with a teaching electronic medical record" (2021). Department of Pharmacy Practice Faculty Publications. Paper 9.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/phprpubs/9
Comments
This is the author-accepted manuscript of Adeoye-Olatunde, O. A., Vlashyn, O. O., Illingworth Plake, K. S., Woodyard, J. L., Weber, Z. A., Litzelman, D. K., & Russ-Jara, A. L. (2021). A mixed-methods study of pharmacy instructors’ early experiences with a teaching electronic medical record. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 13(9), 1180–1193.. Copyright Elsevier, it's made available here CC-BY-NC-ND, and the version of record is available at DOI: 10.1016/j.cptl.2021.06.036.