Abstract Details

Title Reported levels of comfort and experience with interprofessional and telehealth skills in a cohort of neurology faculty

Topic Education, Research, and Methodology

Presentation(s) P11 - Poster Session 11 (11:45 AM-12:45 PM)

Poster/Presentation
Number 7-005

Background Neurology faculty care for complex patients, teach, and work within multidisciplinary teams both in-person and virtually. It is imperative for faculty to have strong communication and technological skills.

Objective To assess neurology faculty’s levels of comfort and experience with interprofessional communication.

Design/Methods

We surveyed NYU neurology teaching faculty on levels of comfort and experience with providing negative feedback, debriefing after an adverse clinical outcome, assisting a struggling colleague, and performing a telemedicine visit. We examined the relationship between level of comfort and experience with sex and with number of years since training.

Results

The survey was completed by 36/83 faculty (43%); 17 (47%) were women and 21 (58%) were <10 years post-training. The proportion of faculty who reported feeling uncomfortable was 44% (16/36) for assisting a struggling colleague, 28% (10/36) for providing negative feedback, 19% (7/36) for debriefing an adverse outcome, and 17% (6/36) for performing a televisit. The proportion of faculty who reported any experience was 89% (32/36) for performing a televisit, 83% (30/36) for providing negative feedback, 61% (22/36) for debriefing after an adverse outcome, and 25% (9/36) for assisting a struggling colleague.

Women were more likely to report feeling uncomfortable with assisting a struggling colleague (13/17 (76%) vs 3/19 (17%), p<0.0001). Faculty who were <10 years post-training were also more likely to report feeling uncomfortable assisting a struggling colleague (13/21 (62%) vs 3/15 (20%), p=0.011). On multivariate analysis, sex remained independently associated with feeling uncomfortable with assisting a struggling colleague (OR=12.2, 95% CI: 2.1-69.6, p=0.005).

There were no other significant differences based on sex or training and comfort or experience.

Conclusions

Faculty development is needed to improve comfort with interprofessional communication.

Authors/Disclosures
Cen Zhang, MD PRESENTER	Dr. Zhang has nothing to disclose.
Arielle M. Kurzweil, MD, FAAN (NYU)	Dr. Kurzweil has nothing to disclose.
Perrin A. Pleninger, MD, FAAN (NYU Langone Medical Center)	Dr. Pleninger has nothing to disclose.
Aaron L. Nelson, MD, FAAN (NYU Langone Health)	Dr. Nelson has nothing to disclose.
Lindsey Gurin, MD (Langone Orthopedic Hospital)	Dr. Gurin has received personal compensation in the range of $0-$499 for serving as a physician reviewer with Healthcare Quality Strategies, Inc. Dr. Gurin has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as a consultant with Human Services Research Institute.
	No disclosure on file
Steven Galetta, MD, FAAN (NYU Langone Medical Center)	Dr. Galetta has nothing to disclose.
Laura J. Balcer, MD, MSCE, FAAN (NYU Grossman School of Medicine)	An immediate family member of Dr. Balcer has received personal compensation in the range of $5,000-$9,999 for serving as a Consultant for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Balcer has received personal compensation in the range of $50,000-$99,999 for serving as an Editor, Associate Editor, or Editorial Advisory Board Member for North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society.
Ariane Lewis, MD, FAAN (NYU Langone Medical Center)	Dr. Lewis has received personal compensation in the range of $500-$4,999 for serving as an Editor, Associate Editor, or Editorial Advisory Board Member for Seminars in Neurology. Dr. Lewis has received personal compensation in the range of $10,000-$49,999 for serving as an Editor, Associate Editor, or Editorial Advisory Board Member for Journal of Clinical Neuroscience.