Telemedicine/E-health course is designed to train clinicians and nurses from both tertiary care hospitals and primary care centers in the field of telemedicine and thus enabling them to develop their own telemedicine projects at their existing hospital networks. The idea is to train primary referring doctor and nurse as well as doctor and nurse responding to these referrals at the tertiary care hospital thus training staff of both ends of future telemedicine projects of each hospital network.
The teaching staff has been trained locally and also at telemedicine centers of USA. The collaborating institutes at USA have participated in development of telemedicine training manual for the lab and experts from these centers are also involved in teaching sessions through videoconferencing and then at the end of training they will visit Pakistan to interact with trainees.
Training
lab
This is specifically designed for telemedicine training and includes computer
workstations, telemedicine peripherals like derma-scopes & e-scopes and
a lot more. It has the facility of high bandwidth connectivity and videoconferencing.
There is wireless local area network between Operation theaters, outpatients
department, wards and demonstration rooms within the department which is then
linked to Tehsil Headquarter Hospital, Pindi Gheb.
The
Curriculum
The curriculum is unique as first of its kind which is designed specially for the doctors and paramedics of Pakistan keeping in view the medical and IT scenario of the country. This training program is of four weeks duration and is strengthened by the involvement of telemedicine experts from USA who will be delivering live lectures to trainees from USA and will also be visiting the training project at the end of training sessions to give on hand telemedicine training. The training manual has been designed to cover all areas training including basic computer training, Telemedicine software and Teleconsultations methodologies etc. The progress of trainees is monitored with help of Log books for each trainee. This training program is categorized into three training modules:Computer Training, Telemedicine Training, Hands on Training.
