Sleep telemedicine training in fellowship programs: a survey of program directors.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

Telemedicine is a novel modality of health care delivery that can improve patients' access to sleep medicine services, but little is known about telemedicine training during sleep medicine fellowship. We studied telemedicine training prevalence, use, and attitudes of program directors (PDs) and other faculty members, PDs' receptiveness to a standardized telemedicine curriculum, and whether PDs have reviewed existing American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) sleep telemedicine reference materials.

Methods

This was an anonymous online survey of all 86 PDs of accredited sleep medicine fellowships in the United States.

Results

Response rate was 45%. Thirteen (33.3%) of the PDs already offer telemedicine experience to their trainees, although none use a st

SUBMITTER: Fields BG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7161462 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature