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Telemedicine Training in Undergraduate Medical Education: Mixed-Methods Review

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Waseh, Shayan, Dicker, Adam P·2019·JMIR Medical Education

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BACKGROUND: Telemedicine has grown exponentially in the United States over the past few decades, and contemporary trends in the health care environment are serving to fuel this growth into the future. Therefore, medical schools are learning to incorporate telemedicine competencies into the undergraduate medical education of future physicians so that they can more effectively leverage telemedicine technologies for improving the quality of care, increasing patient access, and reducing health care expense. This review articulates the efforts of allopathic-degree-granting medical schools in the United States to characterize and systematize the learnings that have been generated thus far in the domain of telemedicine training in undergraduate medical education. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this review was to collect and outline the current experiences and learnings that have been generated as medical schools have sought to implement telemedicine capacity-building into undergraduate medical education. METHODS: We performed a mixed-methods review, starting with a literature review via Scopus, tracking with Excel, and an email outreach effort utilizing telemedicine curriculum data gathered by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. This outreach included 70 institutions and yielded 7 interviews, 4 peer-reviewed research papers, 6 online documents, and 3 completed survey responses. RESULTS: There is an emerging, rich international body of learning being generated in the field of telemedicine training in undergraduate medical education. The integration of telemedicine-based lessons, ethics case-studies, clinical rotations, and even teleassessments are being found to offer great value for medical schools and their students. Most medical students find such training to be a valuable component of their preclinical and clinical education for a variety of reasons, which include fostering greater familiarity with telemedicine and increased comfort with applying telemedical approaches in their future careers. CONCLUSIONS: These competencies are increasingly important in tackling the challenges facing health care in the 21st century, and further implementation of telemedicine curricula into undergraduate medical education is highly merited.

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  • Many medical schools have been slow to incorporate dHealth training into their formal curricula.

    “While the extant literature recognizes the importance of equipping future clinicians with digital competencies [9-11], many medical schools have been slow to incorporate dHealth training into their formal curricula.”

    From Evolving Medical Students’ Digital Health Perceptions and Intentions: Insights From a Prepandemic and Postpandemic Survey Study (2025) · cites this paper as [11]

    The Results (Trends in Geographic Distribution) describe states where few or no medical schools include telemedicine training, and the Discussion (The Current Landscape of Telemedicine Training) calls for faster incorporation into curricula. These passages support the point for telemedicine, but the source does not establish the same pattern for dHealth training more broadly. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  1. [1]Office of The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation: ASPE 2016 2019-03-04 Report to congress: e-health and telemedicine https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/pdf/206751/TelemedicineE-HealthReport.pdf 39250581
  2. [8]Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2019-03-04 Telehealth: Mapping the Evidence for Patient Outcomes From Systematic Reviews https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/telehealth_technical-brief.pdf 27536752
  3. [13]Kelly J American Medical Association 2016 2019-03-01 AMA encourages telemedicine training for medical students, residents https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-encourages-telemedicine-training-medical-students-residents

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Authors
Waseh, S., & Dicker, A. P.
Affiliations
Thomas Jefferson University (US)
Corresponding author
Waseh, Shayan
Venue
JMIR Medical Education
Published
2019-04-08
Volume
5
Issue
1
Pages
e12515
ISSN
2369-3762 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2911229711
Cited by
291
References
15
Citations by year
2026: 30 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 54 · 2021: 72 · 2020: 51 · 2019: 2
FWCI
41.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • JMIR Medical Education (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • The Medicine Forum (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health and Medical Education
Keywords
telemedicine, undergraduate medical education, clinical rotations, medical students' attitudes, competency-based education

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