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. 2021 Jul 2;5:23. doi: 10.22454/PRiMER.2021.619838

Table 1.

Student Questionnaire Responses

Item Median Confidence (Interquartile Range) on a 10-Point Scalea
Week 1b Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 P Value
1. How confident do you feel with placing EHR orders overall? 2 (1–4) 4 (4–6) 7 (6–8) 9 (8–10) .002
2. How confident do you feel with writing prescriptions? 2 (1–3) 4 (3.5–5) 7 (5.5–8) 9 (8–10) .003
3. How confident do you feel with ordering lab or screening tests? 2 (1–4) 5 (4–5) 7 (6–8) 9 (8–10) .004
4. How confident do you feel with ordering imaging studies? 2 (1–4) 5 (4–5) 7 (6–8) 9 (8–10) .007
5. How confident do you feel with ordering vaccines? 2 (1–3) 4 (3–5) 7 (5–8) 9 (7–10) .02
6. How confident do you feel with ordering referrals? 2 (1–2.5) 4 (3–5) 7 (5–7) 9 (8–10) .005
7. How confident do you feel with ordering outpatient therapy (eg, IV fluids, injections, nebulizers)? 1 (1–2) 4 (2–4) 6 (4–7) 9 (5–10) .02
8. How confident do you feel with linking orders to a working diagnosis? 1 (1–3) 4 (4–6) 7 (6–8) 10 (8–10) .007
9. How confident do you feel that clinical decision support tools benefit your medical education? 3 (2–6) 6 (4–7) 7 (6–8) 9 (8–10) .02
10. How confident do you feel that placing unsigned orders benefits your medical education? 7 (2–8) 7 (4.5–10) 8 (7–10) 10 (9–10) .001b
a

Medians are presented for this nonparametric distribution; 1 represents “not confident at all” and 10 represents “very confident.”

b

Weeks 1–3 included 49 students and week 4 included 46 students (3 students had truncated 3-week rotations).

c

Confidence in benefit to medical education increased significantly only between weeks 1 and 3 and weeks 2 and 4.