The Virginia Department of Health Project ECHO® is a lifelong learning and guided practice model that revolutionizes medical education and exponentially increases workforce capacity to provide best-practice specialty care and reduce health disparities.
Find and Register for an ECHO:
Virginia Department of Health/George Mason University: Virginia Concussion Initiative:
VCI concussion experts will lead free, interactive telementoring sessions for school administrators, teachers, nurses, specialized student support staff, athletic trainers, and community healthcare professionals to provide information about best practices in concussion programming and management.
To learn more, visit https://concussion.gmu.edu/echo
Virginia Department of Health/Virginia Commonwealth University Child Abuse and Neglect Project ECHO
Protecting Children through Equal Access to Child Abuse Resources is a virtual series of child abuse identification and evaluation educational programs led by specialists at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU. This series connects community providers with child abuse and maltreatment specialists in regular, real-time, collaborative sessions revolutionizing medical education and exponentially increasing workforce capacity to provide best-practice specialty care and reduce health disparities.
To learn more, visit https://www.vcuhealth.org/services/telehealth/for-providers/education/child-abuse-project-echo
Hear from our partners about current and previous ECHO initiatives:
The heart of the ECHO model™ is its hub-and-spoke knowledge-sharing networks, led by expert teams who use multi-point videoconferencing to conduct virtual clinics with community providers. In this way, primary care doctors, nurses, and other clinicians learn to provide excellent specialty care to patients in their own communities (© 2018 Project ECHO The University of New Mexico).
The anatomy of Project ECHO is the interactive telementoring for clinicians to share best practices. It consists of a didactic presentation by subject matter expert, followed by interactive case-based discussion. Sessions and resources are recorded and archived for future view.
The success of the ECHO model™ has provided The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) Injury and Violence Prevention Program with a framework to implement a collaborative practice and continuing education model to address the burden of injury and violence and increase the capacity for healthcare providers and prevention professionals to care for impacted Virginians.
For more information about Project ECHO, contact ivp@vdh.virginia.gov