Resident and Medical Student Viewpoints on Their Participation in a Telepsychiatry Rotation

Learning at a social distance: A medical student telehealth service for COVID-19 patients

“…We felt that we were able to accomplish our goal of creating a useful opportunity for medical students to develop their clinical skills in the setting of social distancing. This runs consistent with previous studies which have shown that medical students find telehealth education interesting, clinically useful, and a good use of their time, in both primary care and sub-specialty settings (Dzara et al, 2013;Jonas et al, 2019).…”

Awareness and Attitudes Towards Telemedicine Among Medical Students in the United States

“…To our knowledge, and based on collected data, a multitude of medical schools including the University of Central Florida College of Medicine are implementing a telehealth elective or a clerkship. Medical students who participate in these electives consider it a useful educational tool and believe TM can potentially contribute to their medical knowledge, patient care skills, and system-based practice [25,26]. For example, the Cleveland Clinic has incorporated TM for second-year medical students to interview dialysis patients [27,28].…”

Review of key telepsychiatry outcomes

“…Provider satisfaction: Based on 11 studies that use qualitative self-report methods, providers tend to have mixed reactions to telepsychiatry [25,33,34,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52] . Some studies have shown that adult and child psychiatrists reported adequate to high satisfaction with telepsychiatry [53] and one study demonstrated that mental health providers prefer telepsychiatry over telephone-based consultation [51] .…”