154 Virtual Telemedicine Training for Emergency Medicine Residents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

With the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for enhanced social distancing measures, telemedicine has become an integral part of emergency medicine. Medical schools have started to integrate telemedicine training into their curricula, but there are few reports of telemedicine training in GME programs. The primary objective of this study was to examine current emergency medicine resident knowledge of telemedicine, expose residents to standardized telemedicine patients virtually, and analyze the effectiveness of telemedicine training on completing a successful encounter.