Tele-attending can emulate and even improve bedside teaching and learning

Abstract

Telemedicine can be used for education as well as clinical care. Wearable platforms now allow a remote student to “tele-present” cases to “Tele-Attending” elsewhere in real time. Most of the features that medical students rate as important can be accommodated in this paradigm. Augmenting the bedside case presentation with teaching material from on-line sources may even improve bedside rounds. Tele-attending should be explored in particular to meet needs of students at Regional Medical Centers.

Disclosure statement

The author has a financial interest in a company that makes wearable telemedicine platforms.

Notes on contributor

Robert J. Adams, MS, MD, Endowed Chair, SC Centers of Economic Excellence for Stroke; Professor, Director South Carolina Center for Economic Excellence, Neurology Department, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.