El Kheir Dalia Y M, AlMasmoom Nour S, Eskander Mariam K, Alshamrani Reem A, Alwohaibi Rawaa N, AlTheeb Fatimah N, Aleid Bedour A
Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
J Family Community Med. 2023 Jul-Sep;30(3):231-238. doi: 10.4103/jfcm.jfcm_41_23. Epub 2023 Jul 24.
The use of telemedicine has increased considerably in healthcare delivery, especially during this time of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It has, therefore, become necessary to train medical students to better equip them for this new means of healthcare delivery. The aim of the present study was to assess the perception of undergraduate medical students on telemedicine training.
A cross-sectional study was conducted on a total of 521 undergraduate medical students studying in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia. Data were collected via a self-administered pretested questionnaire comprising two main sections: demographics and knowledge and opinions regarding telemedicine training.
About 73% students think that the use of telemedicine for patient care will increase in the future, and 59.3% think that the medical students should be trained in telemedicine. Majority of the students (78%) opined that telemedicine training should be optional and 58% said it should be taught during the clinical phase of the undergraduate curriculum. The best telemedicine training course learning objectives medical students opined to be included were: telemedicine practical skills (70.2%), legal aspects of telemedicine practice (68.3%), and potential positive and/or negative use of telemedicine tools and methods (67.6%). Telemedicine skills students would like to learn how to effectively engage patients, knowledge about telemedicine regulations and the consequences of breaching them.
Medical students are aware of the importance of incorporating telemedicine training into the medical curriculum. Training these students is vital to ensure their competence as physicians in their future clinical careers, that is make them a digitally health-literate future workforce.
远程医疗在医疗服务中的应用显著增加，尤其是在2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行期间。因此，有必要对医学生进行培训，以使他们更好地适应这种新的医疗服务方式。本研究的目的是评估本科医学生对远程医疗培训的看法。
对沙特阿拉伯东部地区的521名医科本科生进行了一项横断面研究。通过一份预先测试的自填问卷收集数据，问卷包括两个主要部分：人口统计学以及关于远程医疗培训的知识和意见。
约73%的学生认为未来远程医疗在患者护理中的应用将会增加，59.3%的学生认为医学生应该接受远程医疗培训。大多数学生（78%）认为远程医疗培训应该是选修的，58%的学生表示应该在本科课程的临床阶段进行教授。医学生认为最好纳入远程医疗培训课程的学习目标包括：远程医疗实践技能（70.2%）、远程医疗实践的法律方面（68.3%）以及远程医疗工具和方法的潜在积极和/或消极用途（67.6%）。学生们希望学习的远程医疗技能包括如何有效地与患者互动、远程医疗法规知识以及违反法规的后果。
医学生意识到将远程医疗培训纳入医学课程的重要性。对这些学生进行培训对于确保他们在未来临床职业生涯中作为医生的能力至关重要，也就是说使他们成为具备数字健康素养的未来劳动力。
