Socially Distanced Teaching: Faculty Feedback on Teaching During Telemedicine

Context

University of Michigan medical school’s Family Medicine clerkship is a 4-week required core clerkship. Students were removed from clinical care in March 2020 and returned in June 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The length of the clerkship was shortened to 3 weeks from June to December 2020 to compensate for lost time. Shortened 3-week rotations were previously shown to have similar outcomes in terms of student satisfaction, National Board of Medical Examiners subject tests, and clinical skills [13].

Students were expected to participate in both in-person visits and virtual visits. Physicians were given basic information regarding the use of shared phone and video visits. They were also given access to virtual meeting spaces (Zoom™ or Bluejeans™ platforms) where they were able to complete precepting and teaching outside of patient visits.

Participants

All faculty physicians, fellows, and resident physicians in the University of Michigan Department of Family Medicine were invited to participate.

Data Collection

Participants completed an anonymous, Qualtrics web survey in June 2020 prior to return of students. Participants were then invited to complete the same survey in August 2020, following 3 cohorts of student clerkships. Along with demographic data, we asked about perceived effectiveness of telehealth format in teaching medical students various forms of care including acute care, chronic care, and health promotion/preventive care (HPP) (see ESM Appendix A for complete survey).

Data Analysis

We analyzed average scores of perceived effectiveness of teaching using Wilcoxon-Mann–Whitney tests (T-tests were not used because the variables are not normally distributed) and utilized Fisher’s exact test for categorical distributions. The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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