Training the healthcare workforce: the global experience with telementorship for hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Telementorship has emerged as an innovative strategy to decentralise medical knowledge and increase healthcare capacity across a wide range of disease processes. We report the global experience with telementorship to support healthcare workers delivering hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) care and treatment.

Methods

In early 2020, we conducted a survey of HBV and HCV telementorship programmes, followed by an in-depth interview with programme leads. Programmes were eligible to participate if they were located outside of the United States (U.S.), focused on support to healthcare workers in management of HBV and/or HCV, and were affiliated with or maintained adherence to the Project ECHO model, a telementorship programme pioneered at the University o

SUBMITTER: Corcorran MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10394928 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature