Peer-to-Peer Proctorship

Complex and highly specialized are often performed at academic hospitals where experience and expertise are available.

Community hospital physicians working with their academic peers to receive training on new techniques and advanced procedures are mutually beneficial and help the health system and patients.

Using TeleVU, the local physician was remotely proctored by his peer from a different country and successfully performed three cases involving Venoplasty and snaring technique for the first time.

Due to travel and access restrictions, proctoring such a case would have been extremely costly and inefficient. Not to mention delaying patient care