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Clinical placements in General Practice: concepts and considerations of implementing remote virtual placements in the COVID world
- Source :
- Education for Primary Care. 32:237-244
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2021.
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Abstract
- Medical students are considered as 'essential workers' within the National Health Service (NHS) and the delivery of clinical experience is essential to their learning and progression into the workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the delivery of clinical placements in primary care; GPs are currently delivering the majority of consultations using telephone or video methods and difficulties in attaining placement experience are being encountered by medical students. Virtual remote consultations are an appropriate adjunct to conventional face-to-face patient encounters and could facilitate students to attain core learning outcomes. This article describes some of the approaches that enable remote (home) virtual patient encounters in Primary Care for medical students. These are categorised as methods that a) enable remote access into GP clinical systems, b) enable remote access into individual patient consultations and c) enable an observational-only experience. Key considerations are highlighted to enable safe and effective implementation of remote virtual consultations, along with the advantages and disadvantages of each method. These include patient consent, confidentiality, data sharing and protection, professionalism, student agreements and data gathering templates. It is hoped that sharing of these methods of virtual consulting will support the ongoing delivery of Primary Care education across medical schools.
- Subjects :
- Health Information Exchange
020205 medical informatics
Computer science
General Practice
education
02 engineering and technology
State Medicine
03 medical and health sciences
Medical Education, Primary Care Placement, Virtual, Remote consultation, COVID-19
0302 clinical medicine
Virtual patient
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Humans
Confidentiality
030212 general & internal medicine
Pandemics
Computer Security
Medical education
Remote Consultation
Data collection
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Health information exchange
United Kingdom
Data sharing
Professionalism
General practice
Workforce
Family Practice
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1475990X and 14739879
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Education for Primary Care
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8c1f5ad9ae9099bed6072ff8f6525c11