The Virtual Visit: A Telehealth Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents Featuring a Virtual Physical Examination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical professionals were obligated to adapt to virtual care. Most resident physicians had no formal telehealth training. The virtual physical examination remained underutilized.

Objective

We describe a needs assessment leading to the creation of a telehealth curriculum for internal medicine (IM) and internal medicine pediatric (IM/P) residents, and report changes in residents' confidence level as well as feasibility data. We hypothesized that residents' confidence in delivering virtual care would significantly improve after implementing a telehealth curriculum.

Methods

A needs-based assessment for all University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) IM and IM/P residents was conducted in July 2020. Specific competencies were ident

SUBMITTER: McConnell M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10539141 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature