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Virtual Interprofessional Telehealth Education: Mixed Methods Evaluation
Jonathan Liao1, Ethan Aminov1, Evan Yang1
1Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, 101 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, United States, 1 631-444-2113.
JMIR Formative Research
|August 13, 2026
Summary
A virtual interprofessional education course improved health students' telehealth skills and confidence. Longitudinal training with standardized patients enhances readiness for team-based virtual care.
Area of Science:
- Health Professions Education
- Telehealth
- Interprofessional Education
Background:
- Telehealth expansion has outpaced formal training in virtual interprofessional collaboration.
- Existing competency frameworks for telehealth and interprofessional education (IPE) offer limited guidance on longitudinal virtual IPE curricula for team-based telehealth practice.
Purpose of the Study:
- Evaluate a longitudinal virtual interprofessional telehealth course.
- Examine impacts on perceived telehealth competencies, interprofessional role understanding, and readiness for virtual team-based care.
Main Methods:
- Mixed methods evaluation of a 4-week virtual IPE course for graduate students (medicine, nursing, therapy, social work).
- Included longitudinal standardized patient telehealth encounters, interprofessional debriefings, and asynchronous learning.
- Assessed quantitative outcomes via postcourse survey and qualitative data from open-ended responses using thematic analysis.
Main Results:
- Twenty-eight students completed the course; high self-reported confidence in telehealth communication, ethics, collaboration, and role clarity (mean scores 4.4-4.8/5).
- Qualitative themes: developed virtual interprofessional collaboration skills, enhanced telehealth clinical/communication competencies, and valued longitudinal standardized patient encounters with feedback.
Conclusions:
- A longitudinal, standardized patient-based virtual IPE curriculum effectively prepared health professions students for interprofessional telehealth practice.
- Supports structured, longitudinal virtual IPE models for telehealth training needs.
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