Teaching Telehealth During a Pandemic and Beyond: an Intern's Survival Guide for Virtual Medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The rapid transition to telemedicine at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic required many providers to learn telemedicine "on the fly." As virtual care will likely remain a mainstay of outpatient medicine, it is imperative that telemedicine training be incorporated into graduate medical education.

Aim

Design a telemedicine curriculum for internal medicine residents based on principles of experiential learning.

Setting

VA-based internal medicine primary care clinic.

Participants

Sixteen first-year internal medicine residents participated in the curriculum.

Program description

The curriculum included a didactic session followed by four simulated patient encounters focused on troubleshooting technical issues, performing the virtual physical exam,

SUBMITTER: Keyserling K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8294316 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature