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AOA, Own the Bone to launch teleECHO program for osteoporosis care
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The American Orthopaedic Association announced it will launch an orthopedic-focused teleECHO program for its Own the Bone program in spring 2019 in conjunction with Project ECHO. The American Orthopaedic Association is the second specialty society to launch a teleECHO program.
“Project ECHO offers a unique experience in real time of how to educate and help problem solve for people who are providing what we call secondary fracture prevention care,” Paul A. Anderson, MD, chair of the Own the Bone steering committee for the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA) and professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Wisconsin, told Healio.com/Orthopedics. “That’s what the premise of [Project] ECHO is: to reach out to people who are providing the care and arm them with more information and also allow them the opportunity to present cases or questions so that they can be answered in a video format by experts.”
According to a press release from the AOA, physicians will enhance their knowledge and skills with expert-led lectures and interactive case presentations through monthly videoconferencing sessions. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss actual patient case studies without identifiable information with expert panelists, the release noted.
“It is a unique style of learning, tailoring case based real life problems that people are facing,” Anderson said. “It also can be timely in that, although we have a curriculum of topics we are going to cover, that can be radically changed if a new development occurs in the field that we need to discuss. We can bring that up immediately at the next meeting we have so that we can have timely discussions.”
Although the program will be tailored for current Own the Bone sites, Anderson said registration is open to all individuals of the medical field.
“We are tailoring the program to current Own the Bone sites that have a heavy emphasis in orthopedics. However, the enrollment or the registration will be open to anyone so that we are not restricting it to just our sites,” Anderson said. – by Casey Tingle
Reference:
www.ownthebone.org/OTB/Education/Project_ECHO/OTB/Education/Project_ECHO.aspx
Disclosure: Anderson reports no relevant financial disclosures.