Replace, amplify, transform: a qualitative study of how postgraduate trainees and supervisors experience and use telehealth for instruction in ambulatory patient care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about using telehealth patient visits as an educational mode. Therefore, rapid implementation of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic had to be done without understanding how to optimize telehealth for education. With the likely sustained/post-pandemic use of telehealth in ambulatory patient care, filling gaps in our understanding of how telehealth can be used for instruction in this context is critical. This study sought to understand perceptions of pediatric postgraduate trainees and supervisors on the use of telehealth for instruction in ambulatory settings with the goal of identifying effective ways to enhance learning during telehealth visits.

Methods

In May-June of 2020, the authors purposefully sampled first- and third-year postgraduate t

SUBMITTER: Anderson HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8861601 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature