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Assessing Medical Student Readiness to Navigate Language Barriers in Telehealth: Cross-sectional Survey Study
| العنوان: | Assessing Medical Student Readiness to Navigate Language Barriers in Telehealth: Cross-sectional Survey Study |
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| المؤلفون: | Leena Yin, Fiona Ng, Mateo Rutherford-Rojas, Mia Williams, Susannah Cornes, Alicia Fernandez, Maria E Garcia, Elaine C Khoong |
| المصدر: | JMIR Medical Education, Vol 8, Iss 3, p e36096 (2022) |
| بيانات النشر: | JMIR Publications, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Special aspects of education LCC:Medicine (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Special aspects of education, LC8-6691, Medicine (General), R5-920 |
| الوصف: | BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has greatly increased telehealth usage in the United States. Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) face barriers to health care, which may be mitigated when providers work with professional interpreters. However, telehealth may exacerbate disparities if clinicians are not trained to work with interpreters in that setting. Although medical students are now involved in telehealth on an unprecedented scale, no educational innovations have been published that focus on digital care across language barriers. ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to investigate advanced medical students’ confidence in caring for patients with LEP during telehealth encounters. MethodsWe administered a written survey to medical students on clinical clerkships at one US institution in August and September 2020. We assessed students’ overall confidence in working with interpreters; confidence in performing 8 clinical tasks during in-person versus telehealth encounters; and frequency of performing 5 different clinical tasks with patients with LEP compared to English-speaking patients during in-person versus telehealth encounters. Wilcoxon signed-rank tests and chi-square tests were used to compare confidence and task performance frequency, respectively, for patients with LEP versus English-speaking patients during telehealth encounters. Students were also asked to identify barriers to care for patients with LEP. The free-response questions were qualitatively analyzed using open coding to identify key themes. ResultsOf 300 medical students surveyed, 121 responded. Furthermore, 72 students answered >50% of questions and were included in the analyses. Compared to caring for patients with LEP during in-person encounters, respondents were less confident in working with interpreters (P |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2369-3762 |
| Relation: | https://mededu.jmir.org/2022/3/e36096; https://doaj.org/toc/2369-3762 |
| DOI: | 10.2196/36096 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/e169d5b296e54f92b5fa55d6fd84701d |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.169d5b296e54f92b5fa55d6fd84701d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 23693762 |
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| DOI: | 10.2196/36096 |