Are Electronic Medical Education and the EHR Helping or Hurting the Quality of Medical Education and Patient Care?: Taming Medicine's Leviathan

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Author(s): David Lee John (University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Medicine, USA)and Deborah Kaercher (The Final Acts Project, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 8
Source title: Optimizing Medical Education With Instructional Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Erdem Demiroz (Trakya University, Turkey)and Steven D. Waldman (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6289-4.ch008

Keywords: Education / Instructional Design / Medical Education / Medical Information Science Reference

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This chapter addresses some of the negative aspects of both electronic medical education and the electronic health record. This includes the dilution of the doctor/patient interface, the emphasis on documentation rather than on learning the healing arts, and the intellectual dishonesty that arises from the use of templates and automated fillers. The authors address concerns about the dehumanization of medicine, starting with the style of medical education carrying through to the style of function within the clinical environment.

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