Last week I had my eyes opened to the issue of EHRs in medical education at the #eHealth2017 conference in Toronto. Prior to last week, I had assumed medical schools in North America had incorporated EHRs into their curriculums a long time ago. I learned my lesson (excuse the pun) after attending a breakout session on the use of #HealthIT in medical education.
Lynn Nagel RN, PhD, assistant professor at the University of Toronto in nursing, gave me my first shock when she told the story of how no one raised their hands when she asked her final-year nursing class who had used an actual EHR before.
