Tracking medical students' clinical experiences using natural language processing.
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Denny JC, Bastarache L, Sastre EA, Spickard A. Tracking medical students' clinical experiences using natural language processing. Journal of biomedical informatics. 2009 Oct;42(42). 781-9.
Graduate medical students must demonstrate competency in clinical skills. Current tracking methods rely either on manual efforts or on simple electronic entry to record clinical experience. We evaluated automated methods to locate 10 institution-defined core clinical problems from three medical students' clinical notes (n=290). Each note was processed with section header identification algorithms and the KnowledgeMap concept identifier to locate Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) concepts.