ArticleBMC medical education2026
"Building the boat while sailing" - adapting towards telementoring literacy.
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backgroundAs telemedicine becomes a core component of modern healthcare, its effective application involves more than just the use of digital tools. An evolving skill set is required for current and future clinicians to adapt to this environment. Telementoring is a subset of telemedicine that involves clinician-to-clinician interaction, providing remote expert guidance in clinical care and medical education, with the potential to reduce global disparities. Yet, how trainees and mentors adapt to this virtual setting for effective learning remains unclear. To generate transferable insights across contexts, research on technology-enhanced environments must use designs that are both practice-oriented and theoretically grounded. Therefore, to investigate how telementoring shapes clinicians' competency development, this study adopts a theory-informed case study of a telementoring Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) program in a resource-limited setting.
methodsWe applied a design-based research approach to bridge educational theory and practice and to enhance understanding of complex learning in authentic environments. This project took place in two healthcare centers in Uganda. Three design principles (authentic learning, deliberate practice, and scaffolding complexity) guided a two-cycle iterative design, evaluation, and re-design of telementoring sessions following initial in-person POCUS training, attended by 24 clinicians. Data sources included field notes, observations, and semi-structured interviews with seven POCUS trainees, two department heads, and two POCUS mentors collected over the twenty-one-month project duration. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis.
resultsOur findings capture the adaptive, iterative learning trajectories of clinician trainees and mentors engaged in telementored POCUS training in real-world contexts, characterized by participants as "building a boat while sailing." Their adaptive capacity developed through (1) cultivating an enhanced situational and socio-cultural awareness, (2) refining feedback and mentorship practices, and (3) scaffolding technological and task complexities. Our project also showed a limit to adaptability and competency development via telementoring in relation to task complexity.
conclusionsWe introduce the concept of 'telementoring literacy' as the adaptive capacity of clinicians -- at both ends of the digital connection -- to effectively engage with clinical skill training and patient care through telementored interactions. Refining the components of telementoring literacy will further enable trainees and mentors to enhance telementoring implementation across different settings.
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