Being the facilitator that I am, you folks seem to belong together. Also this may be an area that we need to get together some interest for the conference in May.
r.longenecker@logan.net, bcrump@wko.com, MCRHJRB@uhhg.org, jwheat@cchs.ua.edu, bmaudlin@fms.fammed.washington.edu, charles.beauchamp@med.va.gov
Bill Crump - asst dean in west KY, did lots of tele-education with students and also validity studies, outreach and pipeline issues in western KY
Jim Buechler - directs rural center in Indiana, experience in setting up rural satellites, also in teaching students and residents and directing programs
Bob Maudlin - RTT originator in Washington at Spokane - recent post:
During the early years of our RTTs we based all of conferencing at the
rural sites. We were able to facilitate weekly grand rounds, journal
clubs, case discussions, morning reports and specific topic presentations
into regular parts of the "formal" resident and faculty education.
Facullty from Spokane also made quarterly visits to present
workshops/conferences at each rural site. RTT residents were also
required to return to Spokane monthly for our day-long Teaching Day. The
latter was not only a good teaching experience but enabled the RTT
residents to get together with the traditional program residents, faculty
and RTT residents from other rural sites. We felt that the RTT residents
still came up a bit short so we allowed them to choose a conference to
attend at program expense in both the R2 and R3 years. Beginning with
this academic year we began to send out to both of our RTT sites the daily
conferences that originate in the Spokane family practice center.
Although this got off to a slow start, it is going quite well now. Both
residents and faculty at the RTT sites actively participate in the
Spokane-based conferences. I still require RTT residents to come to
Spokane for Teaching Day as I believe this has value far beyond the
educational content of the day. Also, the Teaching Day enables us to
conduct workshops that can't be done via teleconferencing. Bob Maudlin
Charles Beauchamp - teaching medical students skills over telemed in north carolina (please add to this charles) general internist
John Wheat - agromedicine, general internist, tele education, med student track