How can telehealth visits increase patient access to neurologic health care? How can you successfully guide patients and their caregivers through a telehealth visit? In this short course, we’ll discuss the benefits and constraints of virtual neurological visits as well as practical strategies to make these visits successful for both you and your patients. Building on your clinical knowledge, we give helpful ways to modify your practice to suit the context of a telehealth video visit.
Telehealth: Neurologic Assessment
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Telehealth: Neurologic Assessment
This course is part of Telehealth: Essentials, Teamwork, and Neurologic Exam Specialization
Instructors: Daniel Ostrovsky
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2 hours to complete
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What you'll learn
Perform a virtual neurological assessment
Discuss the advantages and limitations of a virtual neurological assessment
Describe the benefits of telehealth visits for patients with neurological concerns or conditions
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August 2025
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There is 1 module in this course
Welcome to the course! First, we’ll introduce some basics of Coursera and then move onto the telehealth strategies for neurological assessment. You’ll learn when it is best to use a virtual versus in-person neurologic exam, the benefits of telehealth for patients, and how to perform specific neurologic exam techniques. We’ll discuss patient safety for virtual exams as well as approaches to evaluating pediatric and cognitively impaired patients.
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2 videos8 readings1 assignment3 discussion prompts
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