Table 1.
Student Questionnaire Responses
Item | Median Confidence (Interquartile Range) on a 10-Point Scalea | ||||
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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 |
Medians are presented for this nonparametric distribution; 1 represents “not confident at all” and 10 represents “very confident.”
Weeks 1–3 included 49 students and week 4 included 46 students (3 students had truncated 3-week rotations).
Confidence in benefit to medical education increased significantly only between weeks 1 and 3 and weeks 2 and 4.