# [Re: Can openEHR help here?]

**Category:** [Technical (archive)](https://discourse.openehr.org/c/technical-archive/156)
**Created:** 2010-07-30 01:36 UTC
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**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/re-can-openehr-help-here/13549

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## Post #1 by @Juanita_Fernando1

Hi Derek,

I am presently working with others on research to embed a clinical
terminology amongst clinical students, practitioners and academics\.
There are synergies between this work and openEHR ontology neutral
archetypes\. Your project sounds fascinatng and  I'd like to know more
about it as you progress\.

Cheers

Juanita

> Hi,
>
> I'm involved in a group that is looking at the development of

ePortfolios for students' clinical attachments\.
>
> One of the issues we are addressing is the cost of providing clinical

assessment and feedback in the ePortfolio\. Students complain that they
labourously document their activities and observations on an attachment,
but get very little feedback on whether the amount, quality and variety
of their experience is suburb/good/bad/unacceptable for the particular
attachment\.  However giving the student this feedback requires a senior
clinician to read the ePortfolio and comment \- and this is too time
consuming to happen in practice\.
>
> Question: Could openEHR allow students to document their clinical

experience in a machine\-process able form?
>
> They could then get immediate feedback on how they compare to other

students on the same attachment, and how the attachment compares to
similar attachments done by other firms\.
>
> If the answer to the question is yes, any ideas on how to make this

happen?

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