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9/8/20 - Medical Grand Rounds: Telemedicine with Learners: Challenges and Opportunities in the New Normal

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Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Improve comfort level of providers with incorporating learners in both traditional and new inpatient and outpatient telemedicine encounters.
  • Employ best practices for clinical teaching during different types of telemedicine encounters.
  • Implement technologies that can facilitate virtual clinical teaching in both inpatient and outpatient telemedicine encounters

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement:

  1. Barnett, Michael L., et al. "Trends in telemedicine use in a large commercially insured population, 2005-2017." Jama 320.20 (2018): 2147-2149.
  2. Strong, Amy L., Lesly A. Dossett, and Gurjit Sandhu. "Medical Education and the Momentum for Virtual Care: Integration of Learners Into Telemedicine." Annals of Surgery Open 1.1 (2020): e009.
  3. Pourmand, Ali, et al. "Lack of telemedicine training in academic medicine: are we preparing the next generation?." Telemedicine and e-Health (2020).
  4. Prasad, Aman, et al. "Optimizing your telemedicine visit during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Practice guidelines for patients with head and neck cancer." Head & Neck 42.6 (2020): 1317-1321.

    5. Joint Accreditation Statement: This statement supersedes all other accreditation statements on this page.


    In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


    Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:
Beth Oczypok, MD — Chief Medical Resident, Division of General Internal Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Nathaniel Weathington, MD, PhD — Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Reed Doerfler, MD — Chief Medical Resident, Division of General Internal Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Tanya Nikiforova, MD — Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.