Difference in medical student performance in a standardized patient encounter between telemedicine and in-person environments.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Telemedicine is an increasingly common form of healthcare delivery in the United States. It is unclear how there are differences in clinical performance in early learners between in-person and telemedicine encounters.

Materials & methods

The authors conducted a single-site retrospective cohort study of 241 second-year medical students to compare performance between in-person and telemedicine standardized patient (SP) encounters. One hundred and twenty medical students in the 2020 academic year participated in a telemedicine encounter, and 121 medical students in the 2022 academic year participated in an in-person encounter. SPs completed a multi-domain performance checklist following the encounter, and the authors performed statistical analyses to compare studen

SUBMITTER: Murphy EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11500675 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature