Healio October 15, 2020
Family medicine residents sharpened their skills in behavioral health care by working with other medical professionals via telehealth, researchers wrote.
Additionally, findings from a second paper supported the use of telehealth as a training tool to improve mental health care in rural primary care settings.
Alexander Kowalski, DO, medical director at Rowan Family Medicine in New Jersey, told Healio Primary Care that family medicine residents and patients at his institution have “benefited greatly from the input of a behavioral health professional” during the past 5 years.
“The challenge was creating a way to do this via telemedicine, which was new to our practice and program,” he said.
The solution, Kowalski and colleagues wrote in Annals of Family Medicine, includes the...
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