You are the department manager for Orthopedics at Herzing University Hospital. In your department, medical students rotate on a monthly basis, and often conduct research projects with the resident physicians in your program.

• Explain the approval process you would have in place to allow medical students access to patient records to conduct their research.
• From a logistics standpoint, explain how you should counsel the medical students (and resident physicians as their mentors) on HIPAA compliance and appropriate use of patient records.
• From a personal standpoint (stepping out of the scenario) does supervising this type of project make you uncomfortable? If yes, explain and explore why. If no, explain why.