1. Presenter Disclosure
Patricia Knight-Billington
• Relationships with
commercial interests:
None

2. Disclosure of Commercial
Support
• This program has received financial support
from Department of Education in the form of
Broadband Enabled Education and Skills
Services Program : Telehealth Skills Training
and Implementation Project 2013-2014
• This program has received in-kind support
from University of Wollongong (UOW)
,University of New England (UNE), University
of Newcastle (UoN), Deakin University and
University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) in
the form of governance and involvement in
the project

3. Mitigating Potential Bias
• If the funding and multiple partners
have led to bias in this project, we
have not identified it.

4. Virtual clinics and vertical
medical education
Patricia Knight-Billington
Research Fellow
Graduate School of Medicine
University of Wollongong

5. Telehealth Skills Training and
Implementation (TSTI) Project ,
supported by the Australian
Government Department of Education
through the Broadband Enabled
Education and Skills Services
Programme.

6. University of
Wollongong
Telehealth
Implementation
University of
New England
Deakin
University
Notre Dame
University
University of
Newcastle
Other
Stakeholders,
CCCGPT GP
Synergy
Our partners:

7. Project Overview:
• Students
• Primary Care
Skills Modules
telehealth
consulting
• As an educational experience
• Students, Registrars
Telehealth
Consultations
• Enable multi-disciplinary
participation
• Versatile, interactive format
Virtual
Clinics

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Introduction
of topic, and
roles of
participants,
for example
GP, and
patient.
Development
of the topic
Further
development,
clarification
Final
outcome
Format of virtual clinics:

9. Open to a range of Scenarios, focusing on clinical
reasoning, for example:
• Red eye
• Fracture management
• Renal disease
• Interventions and screening, including alcohol,
activity, domestic violence
• Lesions , procedural and pathology

10. Why clinical reasoning and patient interaction?
What are the other potential uses?

11. Demonstration
videos

12. What has been achieved?
• Support for rural practice and training
• Real time discussion and interaction
• Vertically integrated education
• A virtual community of practice