Telehealth: Neurologic Assessment

How can telehealth visits increase patient access to neurologic health care? How can you successfully guide patients and their caregivers through a telehealth visit? In this short course, we’ll discuss the benefits and constraints of virtual neurological visits as well as practical strategies to make these visits successful for both you and your patients. Building on your clinical knowledge, we give helpful ways to modify your practice to suit the context of a telehealth video visit. This course will discuss when it is appropriate to complete a neurological assessment versus when patients should be seen in-person. We’ll discuss how caregivers and assistants play a key role in successful visits and patient safety and how to evaluate pediatric and cognitively impaired patients. No matter if you’re an experienced healthcare professional or a healthcare student interested in neurology, this course introduces you to the basics of virtual physical assessments. By taking this course, you can contribute to broadening patient access to neurological healthcare. This course doesn’t assume any previous experience with telehealth or specific technologies, but will rely on your previous experience with physical assessments. Whether you are extremely adept at performing telehealth visits, or a complete novice, this course contains practices and expert guidance to positively benefit your telehealth practice

• Perform virtual neurological assessments
• Discuss advantages and limitations of virtual neurologic assessments
• Describe benefits of telehealth for neurological patients

• Basic computer and internet skills
• Ability to read course instructions in English and complete short practice activities