Telehealth: Essentials, Teamwork, and Musculoskeletal Exam

Duke University via Coursera Specialization

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4 weeks, 3 hours a week

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If you’re a healthcare professional or student, telehealth skills will likely be a part of your practice during your career. In this specialization, you’ll learn the basic skills needed to perform virtual musculoskeletal exams. This specialization is one of five from Duke University designed to provide you with practical skills to conduct telehealth visits. Each specialization is made up of three short courses led by an interprofessional team of health educators. Each specialization shares the first two courses. Beginning with Clinical Essentials of Telehealth, you’ll learn the foundations of what will make any telehealth video visit a success. In the second course, Telehealth: Interprofessional Team-Based Care, you’ll learn about how you work with other health professionals to broaden patient access to care. In this specialization’s final course, Telehealth: Musculoskeletal Assessment, you’ll build on your clinical knowledge to discuss how you can conduct virtual general musculoskeletal and upper and lower extremity joint physical assessments. By the end of this course series, you’ll have knowledge you need to complete successful telehealth visits, discern when a virtual or in-person assessment is more appropriate, and leverage teamwork to better serve your community. If you’re interested in gaining telehealth skills in HEENT, cardiopulmonary, dermatology, or neurologic exams, you can take our courses in those fields to complete the other four specializations.

Syllabus

Course 1: Telehealth Clinical Essentials
Course 2: Telehealth: Interprofessional Team-Based Care
Course 3: Telehealth: Musculoskeletal Assessment

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3 hours 14 minutes
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How can telehealth expand healthcare access to our patients? What are ways we can leverage telehealth to better help our patients? In this short introductory course, you’ll receive an introduction to telehealth basics geared toward any healthcare professional or student who has patient-facing clinical responsibilities. We’ll first begin with how you can set yourself, your team, and your patients up for success by using practical tips to ensure success before, during, and after telehealth video appointments. We’ll then discuss general telehealth assessments, focusing on how to work with your patients to assess their vital signs and cognitive function as well as how you can complete a virtual environmental assessment. No matter what speciality or stage you’re at in your healthcare professional journey, this course will help you develop practical skills to be applied to your practice. No previous telehealth or specific technology experience is required.
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2 hours 57 minutes
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How can you leverage your own telehealth skills to work with other health professionals as a team? What does your interprofessional health team need to provide your patients with efficient and effective virtual care? In this short course, we’ll build on telehealth essentials to discuss the basics of collaborating with others to form interprofessional telehealth teams. We’ll start by discussing the basics of team-based telehealth and how implementing these visits can benefit you and your patients. You’ll explore an example team-based visit and hear from providers who are implementing interprofessional telehealth models. By the end of the course, you’ll learn about necessary skills your team needs to develop: a team workflow, communication, and leveraging team members’ individual strengths. Learn how telehealth teams can solve issues related to limited physical clinic space and break down patient barriers to care. No matter what speciality or stage you’re at in your healthcare professional journey, this course will help you develop practical skills to be applied to your practice. No previous telehealth or specific technology experience is required.
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3 hours 3 minutes
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What role do virtual musculoskeletal assessments play in patient care? What are the benefits of virtual assessments, and what virtual findings should prompt an in-person evaluation? In this short course, we’ll discuss when it is appropriate to conduct a virtual musculoskeletal assessment as well as tips and tricks to make these visits beneficial to both you and your patients. We’ll build on the clinical knowledge you already possess and give helpful ways to modify your in-person exam skills to have clinical value in the context of a telehealth visit. This course will begin by discussing a general musculoskeletal functional assessment before diving deeper into both upper and lower extremity joint assessment. We’ll discuss how you can properly coach patients to perform the proper maneuvers for joint assessment. No matter if you’re experienced in the field or a healthcare student interested in musculoskeletal assessment, this course introduces you to virtual physical assessments. By taking this course, you can contribute to broadening access to musculoskeletal healthcare. No previous telehealth or specific technology experience is required, though familiarity with physical assessments is assumed.