K20CETC Projects > Telemedicine and Medical Education

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Overall Goals:

To facilitate partnerships that create efficiencies, enhance effectiveness, or hold great promise for creating new discoveries that demonstrate effective, innovative, network-enabled approaches to teaching and learning.

To identify effective online teaching and learning methods and to promote best practices.

Objectives:

1. To enhance access to health services and information through telemedicine and network-delivered medical education programs, especially if the plans to establish school-based health centers materialize.
2. To ensure that the medical education and training programs offered by the K-20 community are known and utilized as part of the state's new e-Health network efforts.
3. To develop models for the effective delivery of telemedicine and medical education programs.
4. To increase awareness of and facilitate access to the digital resources in medical areas possessed by the K-20 community.

Timeline for Completion:

TBD

Telemedicine and Medical Education Committee:

Paul Peng, Co-Chair • Learning Enhancement Center

Serena Clayton, Co-Chair • CA School Health Association

Hector Lara • CA School Health Association

Liz Miller • UC Davis Medical Center

Jenny Katlove • Children's Partnership

Stephanie Couch • CCC CETC

Links:

The CA E-health Network press release

Schwarzenegger White Paper on School Health Centers