Curricular response to COVID-19: real-time interactive telehealth experience (RITE) program

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Table 1. Real-time interactive telehealth experiences (RITE)

Name of RITE	Sponsoring Department(s)	Length	Max capacity of students per block (total actual enrollment over 8 weeks)
Frontline Care: Virtual Team Member for COVID hospital medicine teams	Medicine	4 weeks	15 (28)
Telehealth in the Age of COVID-19	Medicine, Emergency Medicine	4 weeks	15 (30)
Telehealth for Women’s Care	Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Endocrinology	4 weeks	5 (10)
Psychiatry Liaison Telehealth Experience	Psychiatry	4 weeks	3 (6)

Table 2. Summary of learning objectives in the RITE courses

Name of RITE	Learning objectives
Frontline Care: Virtual Team Member for COVID hospital medicine teams	Actively engage in frontline care for sick and critically patients as a core member of the Hospital Medicine COVID team Obtain valuable patient related information to the team such as HPI, past medical histories, home medication histories Participate in goals of care discussions led by the attending hospitalist with patients and their families Identify various safety and systems issues highlighted through the care of COVID19 patients
Telehealth in the Age of COVID-19	Demonstrate clinical skills in history taking and the physical assessment of patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 utilizing telephone and/or video technology. Provide follow up medical advice and counseling for patients with suspected or diagnosed COVID-19 in various clinical settings and appropriately recognize patients in need of immediate referral, facilitating their return to care. Integrate into and communicate within a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals utilizing telehealth technology to provide and document patient care remotely. Reflect on the service-oriented nature and clinical and emotional challenges of caring for patients via telehealth in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Collaborate using peer support to reflect and troubleshoot obstacles in the context of telehealth communication.
Telehealth for Women’s Care	Participate in high risk obstetrics telemedicine visits and postpartum telemedicine visits Describe adverse outcomes associated with hypertension and diabetes mellitus in pregnancy List the criteria for achieving optimal glycemic control during pregnancy Describe normal and abnormal blood pressures in pregnancy, diagnostic criteria for hypertensive diagnosis of pregnancy and the use of anti-hypertensive medications in pregnancy Understand components of routine postpartum care Describe the benefits of breastfeeding and common challenges in initiation and maintenance of breastfeeding Describe postpartum contraception options
Psychiatry Liaison Telehealth Elective	Summarize how a liaison service is constructed and operated Describe basics of statistics and logistics of building and maintaining a database focused on public health outcomes Describe how to optimize online resource availability to support clinicians and staff Conduct ongoing literature search of one or more areas of research in liaison/crisis response teams.

Table 3. RITE Program Evaluation Scores (range 1–5)

Name of RITE	Total number of evaluations submitted	Overall Course Quality	Amount of Patient Care Responsibility	Value of Course as a New Learning Experience	Overall Organization
Frontline Care: Virtual Team Member for COVID hospital medicine teams	26	3.50	3.55	3.64	3.59
Telehealth in the Age of COVID-19	28	4.57	4.30	4.57	4.30
Telehealth for Women’s Care	8	4.00	4.00	4.38	3.88
Psychiatry Liaison Telehealth Elective	6	3.67	3.67	3.33	3.33