A Teleneurology Teaching Service at a Rural Regional Campus
Regional rural medical school campuses offer many opportunities for medical students to gain more hands-on experience, have more direct interaction with attending physicians, and cultivate a deeper understanding of challenges and opportunities specific to rural medicine. Some specialty services such...
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| author | Anne-Taylor Beck Leeandra B. Cleaver Joshua D. Fuqua Katlyn B. Clark Rohit S. Nair E. Paige Hart Rebecca R. Bolinger William J. Crump |
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| description | Regional rural medical school campuses offer many opportunities for medical students to gain more hands-on experience, have more direct interaction with attending physicians, and cultivate a deeper understanding of challenges and opportunities specific to rural medicine. Some specialty services such as neurology are not available at these small regional campuses, and telemedicine technology can be a valuable tool to address this need. We report the implementation of teleneurology stroke consultation services as part of the third-year neurology clerkship at a regional medical school campus. We analyzed daily clinical notes and student satisfaction surveys. Students saw many common and important presentations of cerebrovascular events. Students worked as part of a multi-disciplinary care team while following these patients through their hospital course with effective instruction provided by remote stroke neurologists. All students strongly agreed that telemedicine was a positive component of the clerkship. We conclude that teleneurology is an effective way to provide inpatient neurology clinical exposure, especially when remote attendings have a strong screen presence and are enthusiastic about teaching. We believe these findings could be useful to other campuses considering similar teaching methods, as innovations in telemedicine continue to address challenges in medical education and clinical care. The authors have no conflicts of interest to report and the Baptist Health Madisonville Institutional Review Board found this study to be exempt. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e9d1a1451ac64dd99526ec836bd5f1ef2022-12-21T20:13:22ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingJournal of Regional Medical Campuses2576-55582021-10-014310.24926/jrmc.v4i3.3534A Teleneurology Teaching Service at a Rural Regional CampusAnne-Taylor BeckLeeandra B. CleaverJoshua D. FuquaKatlyn B. ClarkRohit S. NairE. Paige HartRebecca R. BolingerWilliam J. Crump0Univeristy of Louisville School of Medicine Trover Campus at Baptist Health MadisonvilleRegional rural medical school campuses offer many opportunities for medical students to gain more hands-on experience, have more direct interaction with attending physicians, and cultivate a deeper understanding of challenges and opportunities specific to rural medicine. Some specialty services such as neurology are not available at these small regional campuses, and telemedicine technology can be a valuable tool to address this need. We report the implementation of teleneurology stroke consultation services as part of the third-year neurology clerkship at a regional medical school campus. We analyzed daily clinical notes and student satisfaction surveys. Students saw many common and important presentations of cerebrovascular events. Students worked as part of a multi-disciplinary care team while following these patients through their hospital course with effective instruction provided by remote stroke neurologists. All students strongly agreed that telemedicine was a positive component of the clerkship. We conclude that teleneurology is an effective way to provide inpatient neurology clinical exposure, especially when remote attendings have a strong screen presence and are enthusiastic about teaching. We believe these findings could be useful to other campuses considering similar teaching methods, as innovations in telemedicine continue to address challenges in medical education and clinical care. The authors have no conflicts of interest to report and the Baptist Health Madisonville Institutional Review Board found this study to be exempt.https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/jrmc/article/view/3534rural regional campusmedical studentneurologytelemedicinetele-neurology |
| spellingShingle | Anne-Taylor Beck Leeandra B. Cleaver Joshua D. Fuqua Katlyn B. Clark Rohit S. Nair E. Paige Hart Rebecca R. Bolinger William J. Crump A Teleneurology Teaching Service at a Rural Regional Campus Journal of Regional Medical Campuses rural regional campus medical student neurology telemedicine tele-neurology |
| title | A Teleneurology Teaching Service at a Rural Regional Campus |
| title_full | A Teleneurology Teaching Service at a Rural Regional Campus |
| title_fullStr | A Teleneurology Teaching Service at a Rural Regional Campus |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Teleneurology Teaching Service at a Rural Regional Campus |
| title_short | A Teleneurology Teaching Service at a Rural Regional Campus |
| title_sort | teleneurology teaching service at a rural regional campus |
| topic | rural regional campus medical student neurology telemedicine tele-neurology |
| url | https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/jrmc/article/view/3534 |
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