The Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of South Alabama, College of Medicine is examining a new approach to residency rotations. Traditionally, short rotations meant that the physicians could not follow patients for long periods. With the goal of solving these problems, Dr. Allen Perkins and his colleagues at USA Family Practice incorporated mobile information management into a larger initiative to enrich physician training. The cornerstone of the revised program is a longitudinal rotation schedule that allows residents to gain a wider range of experiences and spend time in more diverse settings. Lightweight and inexpensive handheld computers provided an ideal platform for automating data collection and allowed residents to easily access electronic reference manuals. They chose Pendragon Forms to create the mobile procedure logs.
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