{"id":1214,"date":"2020-08-06T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/taps\/?post_type=issues&#038;p=1214"},"modified":"2024-12-16T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T07:00:16","slug":"upcoming10","status":"publish","type":"issues","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/taps\/issues\/upcoming10\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges in conducting virtual follow-up to chronic illness patients during the COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted: 6 May 2024<br \/>\r\nAccepted: 23 September 2024<br \/>\r\nPublished online: 7 January, TAPS 2025, 10(1), 59-61<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Kye Mon Min Swe<sup>1<\/sup>, Amit Bhardwaj<sup>2<\/sup> &amp; Hnin Pwint Phyu<sup>3<\/sup><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i><sup><span lang=\"EN-GB\">1<\/span><\/sup><\/i><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">School of Medicine, Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia, Malaysia; <sup>2<\/sup>Department of Orthopaedics, Sengkang General Hospital, Singapore; <sup>3<\/sup>M Kandiah Faculty of Medical and Health Science, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n<div>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">INTRODUCTION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Telemedicine is defined as delivering healthcare services across distances using telecommunication technology (Waseh &amp; Dicker, 2019). It helps ensure continuity of care for vulnerable patients to address the unique demands on our health system, especially in times of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, via virtual follow-up. It is also helpful in engaging medical students in training and patient care (Aron et al., 2020).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">During the pandemic, virtual follow-up (VF) home visits were introduced in the integrated family medicine curriculum for Year 4 students. The family medicine curriculum for Year 4 students highlights the significance of comprehending chronic illnesses within the broader framework of the patient&#8217;s family and environment via the Follow-up Study of Patients with Chronic Illnesses programme, traditionally conducted through in-person patient visits. This study investigated the challenges faced while conducting virtual follow-up (VF) patient visits amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"template":"","issues_category":[61890],"archive_category":[],"issue_type":[46],"volume_category":[],"class_list":["post-1214","issues","type-issues","status-publish","hentry","issues_category-innovations-and-insights","issue_type-upcoming-articles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Challenges in conducting virtual follow-up to chronic illness patients during the COVID-19 pandemic - The Asia Pacific Scholar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/taps\/issues\/upcoming10\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Challenges in conducting virtual follow-up to chronic illness patients during the COVID-19 pandemic - The Asia Pacific Scholar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Submitted: 6 May 2024 Accepted: 23 September 2024 Published online: 7 January, TAPS 2025, 10(1), 59-61 Kye Mon Min Swe1, Amit Bhardwaj2 &amp; Hnin Pwint Phyu3 1School of Medicine, Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia, Malaysia; 2Department of Orthopaedics, Sengkang General Hospital, Singapore; 3M Kandiah Faculty of Medical and Health Science, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia I. 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