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Educating health professionals about COVID-19 with ECHO telementoring.
Joanna G Katzman1, Karla Thornton1, Nestor Sosa2
1University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, ECHO Institute, Albuquerque, NM.
American Journal of Infection Control
|November 6, 2021
Summary
Project ECHO
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Public Health
- Infectious Diseases
Background:
- Primary care clinicians lacked COVID-19 treatment knowledge at pandemic onset.
- Project ECHO initiated a COVID-19 Infectious Disease Office Hours program to address this knowledge gap.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the effectiveness of the COVID-19 Infectious Disease Office Hours program.
- To assess the impact of the program on clinician knowledge, confidence, and practice.
Main Methods:
- Mixed-methods evaluation of weekly Office Hours ECHO sessions (June 2020-May 2021).
- Analysis of post-session data and focus group results from 1,421 participants across 45 sessions.
Main Results:
- Participants (nurses, physicians, others) planned to apply learned information, particularly on vaccination.
- Key themes included quality information, community of practice, interprofessional learning, and enhanced knowledge/confidence.
- 68.2% definitely planned to use information, 22.0% probably would.
Conclusions:
- The Office Hours program successfully created a virtual community of practice for health professionals.
- Participants intended to integrate acquired knowledge into patient care, potentially improving outcomes.
- The program facilitated practice change and knowledge diffusion from clinician to patient.
Keywords:
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