IUSM Educational Technology

I have finished a new report that is now available for Faculty and Admin on CERTTS. The basics of the report: when a faculty member or an admin of CERTTS chooses a student name, another drop-down list appears, which is populated with the clerkship names that a student has logged in the database. Once the appropriate clerkship is chosen, a report is generated that displays all of the logged encounters from that clerkship and, if a BCS entry was created from that encounter, displays the encounterID of the BCS entry. If a student needs us to find out which clerkship records are eligible for BCS entries, we can create the BCS quickly.

Last week I completed an addition to the Medicine report. I’ve added an additional field called Inpatient Ward Month. This field allows the user to choose the appropriate month and will display the number of recorded H&P’s for their Inpatient Ward Month and whether he/she has met the minimum required. The best thing about this addition, is the fact that I have been testing, and used for this report field, a new programming technique called AJAX. AJAX combines Javascript and XML to enable faster page loads with less traffic to the database and still utilize the PHP and MySQL needed to access the database.