A Tele-mentoring Tobacco Cessation Case Consultation and Education Model for Healthcare Providers in Community Mental Health Centers

Abstract

2018) A tele-mentoring tobacco cessation case consultation and education model for healthcare providers in

Project ECHO: a Potential Best-Practice Tool for Training Healthcare Providers in Oral Cancer Screening and Tobacco Cessation

“…The positive outcome in the current study could be attributed to both the informative didactics delivered by experts in the concerned fields, and practical, evidence-based learning through the medium of case presentations by the participants. Even those who were not able to present cases benefitted from others' presentations, thereby highlighting the importance of co-learning [8]. Apart from this, the time designated during each session for questions and interaction among the participants and the experts facilitated further knowledge enhancement.…”

“…The Project Extension for Community Health Outcome (ECHO) is an online knowledge-sharing portal, developed in 2003 by Dr. Sanjeev Arora at the Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, with the objective of Bmoving knowledge^rather than the patients or doctors [7][8][9]. It was mainly developed to assist primary care providers (PCPs) in rural New Mexico in managing hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients [8,9].…”

“…The Project Extension for Community Health Outcome (ECHO) is an online knowledge-sharing portal, developed in 2003 by Dr. Sanjeev Arora at the Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, with the objective of Bmoving knowledge^rather than the patients or doctors [7][8][9]. It was mainly developed to assist primary care providers (PCPs) in rural New Mexico in managing hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients [8,9]. The Project ECHO utilizes a virtual hub and spoke model for telemedicine, which facilitates learning among the rural PCPs, along with supervision by experts at academic health centers; this, in turn, increases the ability of the PCPs to manage complex medical cases.…”

“…The Indian Council of Medical Research -National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research (ICMR NICPR)-ECHO hub in Noida (India) conducted the aforementioned virtual training module on oral cancer screening and tobacco cessation among HCPs across India and abroad (Libya) which has shown promising results in effectively sensitizing and training such personnel in this area of cancer prevention, also being the first such initiative to the best of our knowledge; this training module also included sessions on tobacco cessation. The MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas, was the first to extend the ECHO model to train care providers working in community-based mental health centers (local mental health authorities-LMHAs) in Texas, in smoking cessation among patients of mental illness, through Project TEACH (Tobacco Education and Cessation in the Health System) which was started in 2014 [8]. The National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), India, followed suit by starting the Virtual tele-ECHO clinics through the Virtual Knowledge Network (VKN) among district tobacco cessation counselors [10].…”

A Comprehensive Program to Reduce Tobacco-related Cancers Through Actions by a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center

“…Project TEACH, an institutionally sanctioned continuing education and telementoring program, was developed and facilitated by TRTP faculty and staff. 24 Its goal is to sustain specialized tobacco-treatment practices by bolstering healthcare provider self-efficacy in delivering tobacco treatment services using the Project ECHO framework—created by The University of New Mexico 16 and adopted by MD Anderson for several cancer care projects. 25 Now fully administered and operated by the EndTobacco team, Project Teach addresses tobacco treatment strategies through two 30-minute practices (didactic- and case-based learning) per session to increase ambulatory access to tobacco treatment (goal 3, Table 1).…”