Telehealth Elective for Medical Students

The Telehealth elective is an introductory course to telemedicine clinical care in multiple contexts. The primary objective of the course is to expose medical students to telemedicine as a method for delivery of care and to better prepare students for a future where the remote provision of care will be increasingly common. The two-week elective in telehealth and digital health is open to fourth-year medical students.

A central theme of the course is that virtual care may be a new set of tools and skills, but it is a provision of medical care in other environments, and like all medical delivery, care by remote presence has unique strengths and weaknesses.