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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 neurologic exams.
This specialization is one of five specializations 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: Neurologic Assessment, you’ll build on your clinical knowledge to discuss how you can conduct virtual neurological 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, musculoskeletal, dermatology, or cardiopulmonary 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: Neurologic Assessment
Courses
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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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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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How can telehealth visits increase patient access to neurologic health care? How can you successfully guide patients and their caregivers through a telehealth visit? In this short course, we’ll discuss the benefits and constraints of virtual neurological visits as well as practical strategies to make these visits successful for both you and your patients. Building on your clinical knowledge, we give helpful ways to modify your practice to suit the context of a telehealth video visit. This course will discuss when it is appropriate to complete a neurological assessment versus when patients should be seen in-person. We’ll discuss how caregivers and assistants play a key role in successful visits and patient safety and how to evaluate pediatric and cognitively impaired patients. No matter if you’re an experienced healthcare professional or a healthcare student interested in neurology, this course introduces you to the basics of virtual physical assessments. By taking this course, you can contribute to broadening patient access to neurological healthcare. This course doesn’t assume any previous experience with telehealth or specific technologies, but will rely on your previous experience with physical assessments. Whether you are extremely adept at performing telehealth visits, or a complete novice, this course contains practices and expert guidance to positively benefit your telehealth practice.
Taught by
Daniel Ostrovsky and Kathleen Waite