News and briefs: Residents using smartphones in hospital
Residency Program Insider, December 6, 2011
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
A recent ACGME survey found that residents are using their smartphones in clinical practice, accessing applications such as medical calculators, drug guides, and pregnancy wheels. The survey also found that more residents use their smartphone in clinical practice than licensed independent practitioners. According to an article from the website iMedicalApps, the ACGME released the survey to all of its certified training programs, and program directors were encouraged to distribute to faculty as well as residents. Eighty-eight percent of residents who responded to the survey said they owned a smartphone, and 70% said they use medical apps while at work. Although 78% of attending physicians in practice for more than 15 years answered yes to owning a smartphone, only 39% answered yes to using their phone in the clinical setting.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
Related Products
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Complications from immobility by body system
- Differentiate between types of wound debridement
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- The consequences of an incomplete medical record
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- ICD-10-CM coma, stroke codes require more specific documentation
- E-mailed
-
- CDC alert: Screen for international travel as Ebola cases increase
- Differentiate between types of wound debridement
- Correctly bill ancillary bedside procedures in addition to the room rate
- Q&A: Utilization Review Committee Membership
- Q&A: A second look at encephalopathy as integral to seizures/CVA
- Performing a SWOT analysis
- Leadership training for charge nurses
- Intravenous therapy guidelines
- Helping Charge Nurses understand their leadership role (Part 2 of 3)
- Coding, billing, and documentation tips for teaching physicians, interns, residents, and students
- Searched