We’re looking to use OpenEMR in our graduate nurse practitioner courses to create the IT infrastructure for a simulated primary care clinic, incorporating simulated patient data and having students chart and [simulate] order meds & follow-up care… part of our Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) training using standardized patients (i.e., actors).
I’m sure we’re not the first ones with this idea, and I’m seeking wisdom from those with knowledge of setting up OpemEMR as a simulated clinical practice for MD/NP/PA/PharmD students.
Now that we’ve installed OpenEMR Cloud Express and have our faculty users setup as Attending Physicians/NewCrop Supervising Doctors and our students as Resident Physicians…
**Any recommendations on how/where to get started:
- bulk populating simulated patient data created by our faculty,
- obtaining & uploading publicly available simulated/practice/test patient data,
- how to batch update the dates for all simulated patient data/encounters each year (e.g., so that Mr. Jones DOB is incremented +1 yr each year so he’s always 21 years old and his last visit was on June 1, 20XX (where 20XX is whichever calendar year we’re currently in.); and,
- general references/contacts/resources of people who are currently & successfully using OpenEMR to do what we’re proposing to do? (Like I said, I’m sure this isn’t a new idea.)**
We’re equal parts excited and terrified to get going. Thanks in advance for helping us setup a workflow and avoid unnecessary wheel re-creation.
[And quick PS, since developing teaching tools isn’t the focus of this board… Several of our students each year go on to open up their own clinics, typically in under served communities… Part of us wanting to use OpenEMR here is to expose students to it so they may consider it as an option if/when they go into practice and hang up their own shingle. We & they appreciate your willingness to get us started off right.]
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) later this week. Thank you both again!!