Weblog Pointers
Clinical Weblog is now the required way for students to document clinical experience in our Clerkship. This is required for accreditation of the school! CWeblog uses Internet Explorer and can be accessed from home (http://cweblog.usuhs.mil) or on workstations already set up in the department. Use the "Student Version" not the "Demo Version";. A Palm version can be downloaded (instructions available on the CWeblog site).
1. Code name and password : type "guest" (lower case, no quotation marks) at both prompts . Your "name" should be your GroupWise email name without "usuhs.mil". Use lower case, and watch for "typos", and use the same name each time or you will have multiple entries.
2. Enter all the patients you see: enter those in whose care you ve "participated", seen on teaching rounds ("observed") or as simulated patients . Enter their problems using the menus or the Search Problems button that will get you quickly to all the items with your search term. (The search function may not work if using the AOL browser.) Enter each patient s problems/diagnoses from your H&P or from clinic chart (for instance, if hypertension and high lipids were problems in a patient seen for diabetes, enter all three). We recommend that ward students enter patients at the time of discharge including all procedures, and that ambulatory students enter patients at the end of each clinic.
3. Procedures: Please enter those you have done yourself (e.g. ABGs or LP) and/or have observed (e.g. colonoscopy).
4. Submit Report: After entering the full problem list and procedures, click on "submit to Weblog". You get a screen showing the data for that patient. (The entry page may move to the windows tray at the bottom of the screen.) It also gives you hypertext links to various educational resources. Clicking on"Search hypertension", for instance, goes to the departmental search engine with a dozen other links.
5. Entering more than one patient while on Weblog: Using Internet Explorer, you do NOT have to enter your name, site, etc. each time you enter a patient. Click on Patient Data Entry after you've submitted first patient.
6. Generate a printed report: At the end of each rotation, from the CWeblog homepage go to the Report Entry Request screen and PRINT a report of individual patient entries by date with a problem list. You enter your "name" (see #1) under General Word Search. This is sufficient to document what you have entered. You will be required to turn this in at the end of each rotation. If you're asked for "user" or "password", use "admin" in each box.
7. "Other" diagnoses or procedures: The list of diagnoses on the Weblog menus is not exhaustive. Match your problems to the closest one on the menu provided. Try to avoid using the "other" entry sections, but if nothing matches, type in the problem under "Other" but leave no spaces; use "underscores" (e.g. 'adverse_drug_reaction'). If you feel we should add a diagnosis to a menu, please let us know; otherwise, we will track the "other" entries to look for additions.
For problems or questions, write to Dr Williams (rwilliams@usuhs.mil or Dr Denton gdenton@usuhs.mil)