Telehealth competencies across the learning continuum
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- New and emerging areas in medicine series
- Contributor(s):
- Association of American Medical Colleges, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : Association of American Medical Colleges, March 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Academic Medical Centers Clinical Competence Education, Medical Telemedicine United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Telehealth, defined as the use of technology to deliver health care at a distance, has become an increasingly important and commonly used tool for delivering care to patients. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, providers’ use of telehealth in teaching hospitals was growing steadily. To better understand the evolving role of telehealth, the AAMC hosted a meeting of national telehealth experts to discuss the opportunities and risks for telehealth for academic medicine in 2016. The message from participants was clear: If telehealth were to be useful in the provision of high-quality care and be adopted by clinicians in a generalizable and sustainable way, providing training in telehealth to the clinician workforce would be essential. To guide a path forward, a set of consensus physician competencies in telehealth was needed. To address this need, the AAMC established a Telehealth Advisory Committee tasked with first identifying the skills needed by physicians to provide high-quality care via telehealth, independent of setting or specialty. Once the skills were identified, the committee brought in additional experts in education to help translate the skills into competencies for each stage of the medical education continuum. COVID-19 intensified the need for these competencies. They will provide a foundation of support to ensure medical schools and teaching hospitals are providing excellent training to physicians and other clinicians in all forms of telehealth.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (vi, 19 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918504887606676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918504887606676