KevinMD December 7, 2025
As an oncologist, I’ve sat through the 24- to 48-hour EMR trainings that claim to prepare clinicians for new systems. They rarely do. The average physician still spends one to two days in technical onboarding and another month fumbling through screens before feeling comfortable. Versions vary wildly even within the same vendor, and every move to a new hospital resets the learning curve.
One night in a rural hospital, I watched a patient in pain wait 40 minutes for medication because a locum nurse couldn’t find the correct screen for the dose. She clicked through six pages before calling pharmacy. That delay wasn’t a training issue. It was a design failure, and a patient paid for it.
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