IUSM Educational Technology

Stacey Jackson has requested that additional names be added to the ‘Supervising Physician’ field and an additional location be added to the location field on the EM clerkship form.  Previously, students needed to type in the supervising physician’s name in the free text field, when completing an EM clerkship form.  Due to the fact that ‘Elkhart General’ needed to be added to the list of locations and the fact that there were specific physician names that needed to be accessed via a drop-down list, modifications were needed for the form.  I’ve incorporated AJAX into the EM form.  Now, when students select the location of the encounter, they will see different types of fields for the supervising physician field.  For instance, when a student selects the Elkhart location, they will be supplied with a drop-down list of the physicians.  If a student selects any other location, they will be supplied with a free text field to type the physician’s name (as they have in the past).  Now the EM form satisfies the needs of all students filling out an EM clerkship form, no matter the location of the encounter.