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Identification of Gaps in Graduate Medical Education Telehealth Training
Telehealth and Medicine Today ; 6(3), 2021.
Article in English | ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2026478
ABSTRACT
Most analysts and healthcare systems agree that telehealth volumes will continue to be markedly higher than levels prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.1 The rapid increase required clinicians, including trainees across various specialties, to practice medicine via telehealth for the first time. Research shows that very few residency programs offer formal training and education around telehealth.2,3 Although recent research has detailed telehealth training at the undergraduate medical education level, little of this research is available at the Graduate Medical Education (GME) level. [...]the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has set standards for telehealth education, outlining guidelines to create curricula.4 This contrasts with the finding that very few Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) milestones mention telehealth or competencies related to the delivery of care via this modality.5 We set out to quantify this education gap in order to better understand its impact on trainees providing care via telehealth. If the core competencies highlighted in the table are not incorporated into GME curricula, we run the risk of telehealth becoming a substandard modality of care delivery that cannot maintain the same quality of care due to a lack of appropriate training of the providers responsible for its delivery. With the incorporation of program-specific telehealth competencies, this modality of care delivery has the ability to expand access, improve outcomes of chronic disease management, and strengthen the patient–provider relationship across all specialties.
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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: ProQuest Central Language: English Journal: Telehealth and Medicine Today Year: 2021 Document Type: Article

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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: ProQuest Central Language: English Journal: Telehealth and Medicine Today Year: 2021 Document Type: Article