Time cost
The average PG resident spends 40–60 minutes a week maintaining a paper logbook — mostly recopying entries and chasing signatures. Digital drops this to 5–10 minutes.
Inspection readiness
Ask any HOD who's faced an MSR audit: producing a resident-wise competency report from paper takes weeks. Digital: one click.
Faculty burden
Faculty signing 30 entries at a time on paper is a bottleneck. Digital sign-off — from a phone during rounds — is transformative.
What digital doesn't solve
Poor training culture. If competencies aren't being taught, no logbook — digital or paper — will fix that. But at least digital shows you the gap.