After module 1 of a clinic EHR class, a short quiz shows clerks cannot locate the allergy field. What should the instructor do?
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Short Explanation
That quiz is a smoke alarm, not a trophy. If nobody can find the allergy field, change the afternoon and teach it again. Saving the surprise for the final just burns the house down later.
Full Explanation
After module 1 of a clinic EHR class, a short quiz showing clerks cannot locate the allergy field should drive a change to the afternoon plan to reteach that field. Formative results exist to reshape instruction while there is still time, especially for patient-safety-related data. Hiding quiz results until the final exam to protect morale fails the formative purpose and risks unsafe practice continuing. Continuing the afternoon as scripted because the vendor slide order is "sacred" fails instructional responsiveness; vendor order does not outrank evidence of a critical miss. Converting the rest of the day into a medical-coding bootcamp fails alignment by abandoning the EHR navigation objective for an unrelated topic. Exam caveat: use formative data to reteach the missed objective before summative stakes. Operational check: pause the scripted deck, reteach allergy-field location with guided practice, re-quiz or observe until clerks can find and enter the field, then resume the remaining modules with the safety gap closed. Allergy fields in a clinic EHR are patient-safety data; formative quiz evidence that clerks cannot find the field must change the afternoon plan immediately so reteaching happens before a summative locks in the misconception.