Telemedicine Elective (4 to 8 Credit Hours)

Catalog description

The Clerkship Telemedicine elective course is a clerkship elective offered to MCG clerkship medical students over a three-week rotation. The goals of this elective course are to: 1) Explain key components of the pre-visit checklist and appropriate interactions for executing an appropriate, billable telemedicine exam 2) Identify best practices for collecting a patient history and conducting a physical exam during a telemedicine patient encounter 3) Recognize regulations, health equity, cultural competency, special populations, and special use cases in telemedicine patient encounters course assessments will include didactic learning assessments, simulated telemedicine patient encounters with feedback, and coder review of simulated patient encounter notes. Lecture Hours: 6 Contact Hours: 2 Repeatability: May not be repeated for credit. Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory College Restrictions: Medical College of Georgia Schedule Type (Primary): Lecture Click here for the Schedule of Classes.