In context of the Corona pandemic, telemedicine acquired a new significance.Whereas previously Fan Shop - Oilers - Hats the aim was to override given barriers, now, in the case of a pandemic, the main idea is to create an intentional distance between patients and healthcare professionals in order to avoid cross-infection.To meet the needs of a fully diagnostic examination, a robotic based system was designed.
However, collaborative robotic systems bear new risks, that have to be dealt with.To prepare future physicians for telediagnostics, we TATSoul Chair developed a training curriculum for the telemedical examinations.It is based upon multiple stages including a skill trainer, healthy volunteers, supervised examinations of real patients and an exam.
In a first proof of concept, we demonstrated the existence of a learning curve and significant better performance after the passed curriculum compared to an untrained collective.