The Use of Telemedicine in Medical Education and Patient Care

Overview

Journal Cureus

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2023 May 22

PMID 37213963

Authors

Lana Shawwa

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated and expanded the adoption of telemedicine globally. This allowed telemedicine to engage medical students in patient care and ensured continuity of care for vulnerable patients. In this review, the history of telemedicine and some of its applications in medical education were reviewed. Furthermore, we also shed light on how to incorporate telemedicine into several curricula and the strategies used to include it. The article also explored how to evaluate telemedicine and the major facilitators and barriers any medical and educational institution must address when using telemedicine. At the end of the review, we explored the future promises telemedicine has for medical education.

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