Telemedical Education: Training Digital Natives in Telemedicine

Telemedicine plays an important role in the delivery of medical care, and will become increasingly prominent going forward. Current medical students are among the first generation of “digital natives” who are well versed in the incorporation of technology into social interaction. These students are...

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Autores principales: Pathipati, Akhilesh S, Azad, Tej D, Jethwani, Kamal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4961876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27405323
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5534
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description Telemedicine plays an important role in the delivery of medical care, and will become increasingly prominent going forward. Current medical students are among the first generation of “digital natives” who are well versed in the incorporation of technology into social interaction. These students are well positioned to apply advances in communications to patient care. Even so, providers require training to effectively leverage these opportunities. Therefore, we recommend introducing telemedicine training into medical school curricula and propose a model for incorporation.
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spelling pubmed-49618762016-08-22 Telemedical Education: Training Digital Natives in Telemedicine Pathipati, Akhilesh S Azad, Tej D Jethwani, Kamal J Med Internet Res Viewpoint Telemedicine plays an important role in the delivery of medical care, and will become increasingly prominent going forward. Current medical students are among the first generation of “digital natives” who are well versed in the incorporation of technology into social interaction. These students are well positioned to apply advances in communications to patient care. Even so, providers require training to effectively leverage these opportunities. Therefore, we recommend introducing telemedicine training into medical school curricula and propose a model for incorporation. JMIR Publications 2016-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4961876/ /pubmed/27405323 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5534 Text en ©Akhilesh S Pathipati, Tej D Azad, Kamal Jethwani. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 12.07.2016. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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