Clinical Informatics Competencies in the Emergency Medicine Specialist Training Standards of Five International Jurisdictions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The field of clinical informatics (CI), and specifically the electronic health record, has been identified as a key facilitator to achieve a sustainable evidence-based health care system for the future. International graduate medical education (GME) programs have been challenged to ensure that their trainees are provided with appropriate skills to deliver effective and efficient health care in an evolving environment.

Objectives

This study explored how international emergency medicine (EM) specialist training standards address competencies and training in relevant areas of CI.

Methods

A list of categories of CI competencies relative to EM was developed following a thematic review of published references documenting CI curriculum and competencies. Publicly a

SUBMITTER: Holroyd BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6194043 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature