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Background: Multiple international studies found that Telemedicine is acceptable to physicians and healthcare teams. However, there are no available studies to determine if the residents of a tertiary hospital are ready and welcoming to this new approach. Objective: To assess telemedicine readiness and acceptability among resident physicians of East Avenue Medical Center. Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited 139 East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC) resident physicians using a web-based questionnaire. The majority of respondents were female (63.31%), with a mean age of 29.99 ± 2.45 years and a mean duration of training of 23 (11 to 34). Data were analyzed to determine readiness based on technological resource availability, hardware and software skills, and acceptability using a modified and validated questionnaire. Results: The majority have Smartphones 125 (89.93%) and Personal Computers 122 (87.77%) and have access to mobile data 128 (92.09%) and Wi-Fi 119 (85.61%). Mean perceived device and software skills were 3.28 ± 0.58 and 3.38 ± 0.56, respectively. The overall acceptability was 2.88 ± 0.58. Males have higher perceived device skills, however, both sexes have similar perceived software skills (p-value > 0.05) No correlation was seen between telemedicine acceptance with age and length of training. Conclusion This study demonstrated that EAMC resident physicians are equipped and ready for Telemedicine. Additionally, it demonstrated hesitancy but leaned towards telemedicine acceptance. Males have better perceived device skills, but readiness and acceptability are similar for both sexes in other domains. There is no correlation between age and length of training with readiness and acceptability.
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Background: Telemedicine rapidly became essential as a substitute for face-to-face consultations during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic but awareness, knowledge, attitude, perceptions and willingness level are not well documented and formal training in telemedicine among physicians was lacking. Objective: This paper aimed to describe the awareness, knowledge, attitude, perceptions, and willingness to practice telemedicine for primary care consultations of Family and Community Medicine resident and retainer physicians from a community-based clinic chain in NCR, Rizal, Cavite and Laguna. Methods: This study utilized a cross sectional descriptive design conducted from April 12 – April 30, 2021.using a pilot tested 33-item self-administered survey questionnaire distributed to 85 respondents. Data was analyzed and reported as frequencies, percentages and mean. Results: Majority of the 82 respondents were female (58.5%), single (80.5%), Family Medicine resident physicians (63.4%), practicing within NCR (57.3%) and tenure of > 1 year (91.5%.) The respondents were: somewhat knowledgeable about telemedicine technology and tools, strongly agreed that they were aware of telemedicine platforms (mean of 4.76) and agreed (mean 3.54) that telemedicine was convenient. However, they strongly disagreed (mean = 1.74) that it could completely replace face-to-face consults. They agreed that telemedicine was a viable healthcare approach with a mean of 3.62 and strongly agreed (mean = 4.33) that continuous training on telemedicine was necessary. Willingness to be trained yielded a mean of 4.2. Conclusion Although there was good awareness and positive attitude towards telemedicine, knowledge was limited. Telemedicine was perceived positively. In fact, most respondents were willing to be trained and adopt telemedicine. This study yielded good baseline data for future research. Future studies can include the effects of training in telemedicine among physicians providing primary care and how it will improve primary care consultations using telemedicine.
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