Use of Mobile Apps for Logging Patient Encounters and Facilitating and Tracking Direct Observation and Feedback of Medical Student Skills in the Clinical Setting

Undergraduate medical education consists of 15–24 months of clerkship, where medical students participate directly in patient care within various healthcare environments. It can be a challenge to document what patient encounters students have experienced, and that they have been directly observed in those settings. We set out to build mobile apps to improve the tracking of student–patient encounters, as well as their direct observation and …