Let's learning more telemedicine with Dr. Fictitious via Tenveo

Imagine that here has an eager young surgeon in training who's going to demonstrate how Tenveo medical video conferencing can help a student resident make the rounds at numerous hospitals and health-care settings in a day.

His day is about to begin, and it’s a packed schedule that will give him first-hand experience of health-care settings, cases, and procedures from all length and breadth of the medical world. He used the nationwide contacts of his guiding physician to establish relationships with doctors all over the country, and a little personal initiative to make some cyber friendships with doctors overseas via Tenveo video conference.

1. Video Links across Health-care Settings

With his carry-everywhere iPad, he puts in a video call to the patient's destination via Tenveo conference room, gives the answering nurse an overview of the situation, and then hands over his device so patient and nurse can learn a little about each other before they meet in person. It’s a newly adopted practice that helps ease patient anxiety as they make their way through the health-care system and on to a full recovery.

Next up, Dr. Fictitious is due to meet bedside with his supervisor and a team of online fellow trainee doctors as they go through a routine surgical follow-up. Again, he puts in a video call on his iPad via Tenveo video meeting room, this time a group call, and he and his online colleagues listen and observe quietly as the resident surgeon goes about his check-up.

After stepping away from the bed to pose a few questions to the supervisor, it’s back to the office for some virtual travel.

2. Virtual Surgery

Dr. Fictitious will be joining a group of medical students from Pakistan as they observe a Canadian surgeon perform a straightforward elbow operation. The students can't disturb the operating surgeon, but they have an unencumbered view of the surgery, and can speak directly via Tenveo video conference to a senior physician in attendance. While there isn't much drama expected, there's always something to be learned from observing a live operation.

After that brief encounter. He visits with a general practitioner working within a rural community in New Mexico. Under a new program sponsored by the U.S. Senate, regional doctors are being paired with medical specialists via Tenveo video calls to share diagnosis and treatment of patients too remote to seek expert care themselves.

Tenveo Video Conferencing Can Shrink the Medical World. From here it gets hectic, so let’s summarize the next few visits.

1) Sitting in on a virtual house call to an elderly former patient recovering from a fall.

2) Participating in a nutrition discussion with remotely located oncology patients

3) Helping conduct eye examinations over an ultra-HD video meeting.

4) Attending a group video chat between a young couple, their doctor, and their premature baby still in the ICU.

5) After all that variety, and a hearty real-world lunch, it's back to the office and the webcam to join other remote trainees being guided around a ward in Kansas City.

So the day ends, and though our doctor-in-training may be mentally exhausted, he's still got enough physical energy to ride his bike back home for the evening. Ten visits, ten unique experiences in a single day, taking in the views of doctors, patients, and colleagues while walking only a single flight of stairs.

Tenveo video conferencing is going to really shake up the way young doctors learn in the future.