Initial experience at a university teaching hospital from using telemedicine to promote education through video conferencing

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Autor(a) principal: Pereira,Bruno Monteiro Tavares
Data de Publicação: 2012
Outros Autores: Calderan,Thiago Rodrigues Araújo, Silva,Marcos Tadeu Nolasco da, Silva,Antonio Carlos da, Marttos Jr,Antonio Carlos, Fraga,Gustavo Pereira
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: São Paulo medical journal (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802012000100006
Resumo: CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Telehealth and telemedicine services are advancing rapidly, with an increasing spectrum of information and communication technologies that can be applied broadly to the population's health, and to medical education. The aim here was to report our institution's experience from 100 videoconferencing meetings between five different countries in the Americas over a one-year period. DESIGN AND SETTING: Retrospective study at Universidade Estadual de Campinas. METHODS: Through a Microsoft Excel database, all conferences in all specialties held at our institution from September 2009 to August 2010 were analyzed retrospectively. RESULTS: A total of 647 students, physicians and professors participated in telemedicine meetings. A monthly mean of 8.3 (± 4.3) teleconferences were held over the analysis period. Excluding holidays and the month of inaugurating the telemedicine theatre, our teleconference rate reached a mean of 10.3 (± 2.7), or two teleconferences a week, on average. Trauma surgery and meetings on patient safety were by far the most common subjects discussed in our teleconference meetings, accounting for 22% and 21% of the total calls. CONCLUSION: Our experience with telemedicine meetings has increased students' interest; helped our institution to follow and discuss protocols that are already accepted worldwide; and stimulated professors to promote telemedicine-related research in their own specialties and keep up-to-date. These high-technology meetings have shortened distances in our vast country, and to other reference centers abroad. This virtual proximity has enabled discussion of international training with students and residents, to increase their overall knowledge and improve their education within this institution.
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spelling Initial experience at a university teaching hospital from using telemedicine to promote education through video conferencingTelemedicineEducation, distanceTechnologyTelecommunicationsVideoconferencingCONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Telehealth and telemedicine services are advancing rapidly, with an increasing spectrum of information and communication technologies that can be applied broadly to the population's health, and to medical education. The aim here was to report our institution's experience from 100 videoconferencing meetings between five different countries in the Americas over a one-year period. DESIGN AND SETTING: Retrospective study at Universidade Estadual de Campinas. METHODS: Through a Microsoft Excel database, all conferences in all specialties held at our institution from September 2009 to August 2010 were analyzed retrospectively. RESULTS: A total of 647 students, physicians and professors participated in telemedicine meetings. A monthly mean of 8.3 (± 4.3) teleconferences were held over the analysis period. Excluding holidays and the month of inaugurating the telemedicine theatre, our teleconference rate reached a mean of 10.3 (± 2.7), or two teleconferences a week, on average. Trauma surgery and meetings on patient safety were by far the most common subjects discussed in our teleconference meetings, accounting for 22% and 21% of the total calls. CONCLUSION: Our experience with telemedicine meetings has increased students' interest; helped our institution to follow and discuss protocols that are already accepted worldwide; and stimulated professors to promote telemedicine-related research in their own specialties and keep up-to-date. These high-technology meetings have shortened distances in our vast country, and to other reference centers abroad. This virtual proximity has enabled discussion of international training with students and residents, to increase their overall knowledge and improve their education within this institution.Associação Paulista de Medicina - APM2012-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802012000100006Sao Paulo Medical Journal v.130 n.1 2012reponame:São Paulo medical journal (Online)instname:Associação Paulista de Medicinainstacron:APM10.1590/S1516-31802012000100006info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPereira,Bruno Monteiro TavaresCalderan,Thiago Rodrigues AraújoSilva,Marcos Tadeu Nolasco daSilva,Antonio Carlos daMarttos Jr,Antonio CarlosFraga,Gustavo Pereiraeng2012-02-13T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S1516-31802012000100006Revistahttp://www.scielo.br/spmjhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phprevistas@apm.org.br1806-94601516-3180opendoar:2012-02-13T00:00São Paulo medical journal (Online) - Associação Paulista de Medicinafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Initial experience at a university teaching hospital from using telemedicine to promote education through video conferencing
title Initial experience at a university teaching hospital from using telemedicine to promote education through video conferencing
spellingShingle Initial experience at a university teaching hospital from using telemedicine to promote education through video conferencing
Pereira,Bruno Monteiro Tavares
Telemedicine
Education, distance
Technology
Telecommunications
Videoconferencing
title_short Initial experience at a university teaching hospital from using telemedicine to promote education through video conferencing
title_full Initial experience at a university teaching hospital from using telemedicine to promote education through video conferencing
title_fullStr Initial experience at a university teaching hospital from using telemedicine to promote education through video conferencing
title_full_unstemmed Initial experience at a university teaching hospital from using telemedicine to promote education through video conferencing
title_sort Initial experience at a university teaching hospital from using telemedicine to promote education through video conferencing
author Pereira,Bruno Monteiro Tavares
author_facet Pereira,Bruno Monteiro Tavares
Calderan,Thiago Rodrigues Araújo
Silva,Marcos Tadeu Nolasco da
Silva,Antonio Carlos da
Marttos Jr,Antonio Carlos
Fraga,Gustavo Pereira
author_role author
author2 Calderan,Thiago Rodrigues Araújo
Silva,Marcos Tadeu Nolasco da
Silva,Antonio Carlos da
Marttos Jr,Antonio Carlos
Fraga,Gustavo Pereira
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Pereira,Bruno Monteiro Tavares
Calderan,Thiago Rodrigues Araújo
Silva,Marcos Tadeu Nolasco da
Silva,Antonio Carlos da
Marttos Jr,Antonio Carlos
Fraga,Gustavo Pereira
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Telemedicine
Education, distance
Technology
Telecommunications
Videoconferencing
topic Telemedicine
Education, distance
Technology
Telecommunications
Videoconferencing
description CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Telehealth and telemedicine services are advancing rapidly, with an increasing spectrum of information and communication technologies that can be applied broadly to the population's health, and to medical education. The aim here was to report our institution's experience from 100 videoconferencing meetings between five different countries in the Americas over a one-year period. DESIGN AND SETTING: Retrospective study at Universidade Estadual de Campinas. METHODS: Through a Microsoft Excel database, all conferences in all specialties held at our institution from September 2009 to August 2010 were analyzed retrospectively. RESULTS: A total of 647 students, physicians and professors participated in telemedicine meetings. A monthly mean of 8.3 (± 4.3) teleconferences were held over the analysis period. Excluding holidays and the month of inaugurating the telemedicine theatre, our teleconference rate reached a mean of 10.3 (± 2.7), or two teleconferences a week, on average. Trauma surgery and meetings on patient safety were by far the most common subjects discussed in our teleconference meetings, accounting for 22% and 21% of the total calls. CONCLUSION: Our experience with telemedicine meetings has increased students' interest; helped our institution to follow and discuss protocols that are already accepted worldwide; and stimulated professors to promote telemedicine-related research in their own specialties and keep up-to-date. These high-technology meetings have shortened distances in our vast country, and to other reference centers abroad. This virtual proximity has enabled discussion of international training with students and residents, to increase their overall knowledge and improve their education within this institution.
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