Educating health professionals about COVID-19 with ECHO telementoring - 24/02/22
, Karla Thornton, MD a, Nestor Sosa, MD b, Laura Tomedi, PhD, MPH a, Leslie Hayes, MD c, Marla Sievers, MPH d, Karissa Culbreath, PhD, D(ABMM) e, Kent Norsworthy, MA a, Chamron Martin a, Alaina Martinez, BA a, Jinyang Liu, MS a, Sanjeev Arora, MD, FAACP a
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Highlights |
• | Project ECHO telementoring provides a community of practice |
• | COVID-19 Office Hours ECHO provides just-in-time, evidence-based information |
• | COVID-19 Office Hours ECHO demonstrated a diffusion of knowledge |
• | Participants of the COVID-19 Office Hours ECHO reported practice change |
• | Novel use of a digital librarian was beneficial for participants during Office Hours ECHO |
Résumé |
Background |
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, primary care clinicians had almost no knowledge regarding best practices COVID-19 treatment. Project ECHO developed a COVID-19 Infectious Disease Office Hours (Office Hours) program to respond to the needs of clinicians seeking COVID-19 information.
Methods |
This mixed-methods evaluation analyzed weekly post-session data and focus group results from the weekly Office Hours ECHO sessions during June 1, 2020- May 31, 2021.
Results |
A total of 1,421 participants attended an average of 4.9 sessions during the 45 Office Hours sessions studied. The most common specialties included: nurses= 530 (37%), physicians= 284 (20%), and 493 (34%) having other degrees. The participants stated that they were definitely (68.2%) or probably (22.0%) going to use what they learned in their work, especially vaccination information. Focus group results identified these themes: 1) quality information, 2) community of practice, 3) interprofessional learning, and 4) increased knowledge, confidence, and practice change.
Conclusions |
This evaluation demonstrates that the Office Hours program was successful in bringing a large group of health professionals together each week in a virtual community of practice. The participants acknowledged their plans to use the information gained with their patients. This diffusion of knowledge from clinician to patient amplifies the response of the program, changes practice behavior and may improve patient care.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Key Words : COVID-19 telementoring, Infection prevention, Clinician education, Project ECHO, Public health education
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| Conflicts of interest: All authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to this article. |
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