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Mr. Watson, Come Here-I Want To See You: One Rural Residency Program’S Rapid Pivot To Telemedicine During The Pandemic, William J. Crump, Diana M. Nims, Douglas J. Hatler
Mr. Watson, Come Here-I Want To See You: One Rural Residency Program’S Rapid Pivot To Telemedicine During The Pandemic, William J. Crump, Diana M. Nims, Douglas J. Hatler
Marshall Journal of Medicine
Introduction
Telemedicine has been used for over a generation, but application has been limited in rural areas due to lack of payment, licensure issues, cumbersome video equipment, and challenges with digital communications. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, our rural family medicine residency made a rapid shift to all telemedicine services for our patients.
Methods
We collected data over a four-week period in April 2020 as we transitioned to 100% telemedicine consultations. We compare that to a four-week period prior to mid-March when COVID-related shutdowns began. We collected detailed visit summaries, patient feedback, and physician feedback to compare these two periods. …
A Closer Look Into Empathy Among Medical Students: The Career Eulogy As A Lens, William Crump, R. Steve Fricker, Craig Ziegler
A Closer Look Into Empathy Among Medical Students: The Career Eulogy As A Lens, William Crump, R. Steve Fricker, Craig Ziegler
Marshall Journal of Medicine
Introduction
Empathy is widely considered to be key to being an effective physician. The measurement of empathy is important to those designing medical education. The majority of the literature on empathy is based on survey scales that ask the learner to express their degree of agreement with a series of statements. We have previously studied and published an entirely projective measure that we term a career eulogy.
Methods
We had 65 students based at a regional rural medical school campus complete measures of a career eulogy (CE) and the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) over their four years in medical …