AMA supports medical student access to electronic health records

Building on the AMA's current efforts to transform medical education and ensure medical students are trained and prepared to practice in the evolving health care environment, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted policy today to ensure medical students receive necessary hands-on clinical experience using electronic health records (EHR).

"There is a clear need for medical students today to have access to and learn how to properly use electronic health records well before they enter practice," said AMA Board Member Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, M.D. "For our future physicians to successfully navigate the 21st century health care system, we must close the gaps that currently exist between how medical students are educated and how health care is delivered now and in the future."