Teaching project to support telemonitoring of Covid-19 cases

Abstract:

Introduction:

In January 2020, the WHO recognized the new Coronavirus pandemic, reaching Brazil in February, and the state of Acre in March. One of the actions employed to tackle the pandemic in Acre is the telemonitoring of suspected and confirmed Covid-19 cases, enabled though a partnership between the Acre Telehealth Center, the Health Departments and the two local medical courses. The purpose of this article is to report the experience of the teaching project to support telemonitoring of Covid-19 cases in Rio Branco.

Experience report:

The telemonitoring was performed by a team of 210 final year medical student and a group of eight professors. Aware of the need to strengthen actions to tackle the new Coronavirus, the UFAC central administration issued a public notice for teaching projects that could fulfill this social role by systematizing knowledge on the subject.

Discussion:

The project has been carried out through systematic virtual meetings of the telemonitoring executive team on the Zoom platform, with discussions of the monitored cases, discussions with specialists on specific clinical topics, the presentation of articles, discussion of epidemiological data and lectures on Covid-19. Furthermore, course conclusion papers have been developed based on the telemonitoring data.

Conclusion:

Despite the challenge of working through distance learning, the project has contributed substantially to deepening knowledge about the Covid-19 pandemic and to monitoring cases in Rio Branco.

Keywords:
Education Medical; Telemonitoring: Coronavirus Infections