Education provided by the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation includes virtual teleconferences, face-to-face training and online continuing education opportunities. Additional programs are also available to support learning.
Virtual Teleconferences
- CAP (Connecting Across Professions) Multidisciplinary Teleconference – Focuses on chronic disease, healthcare trends, and interprofessional collaboration.
- High-Risk Obstetrical Teleconference – Joins healthcare providers across Arkansas to discuss OB cases and best practices for selected conditions.
- OB/GYN Grand Rounds Teleconference – Provides physicians and other medical professionals the opportunity to present clinical and research topics relating to OB/GYN and women’s primary healthcare.
- ONE Team – Partners nurses from across Arkansas through telehealth to earn continuing education units using case studies, clinical/legal issue discussions, improvements to care, and best practices in nursing.
On-Site Training
- Fetal Monitoring Courses – Uses basic, intermediate, and advanced curriculum from the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN).
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) – Provides an evidence-based approach to resuscitation of the newborn to physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other healthcare professionals who care for newborns at the time of delivery. This is a two-part program that involves an online self-study course and an interactive, hands-on demonstration.
- OB and Neonatal Simulation – Meets the educational and training needs of healthcare professionals through obstetric and neonatal simulations and drills that ensure quality improvements and standardization of care. The program is a partnership between the UAMS Center for Simulation Education and the IDHI High-Risk Pregnancy Program POWER Team.
- S.T.A.B.L.E. – Provides education to healthcare teams caring for newborns. The course provides standardized interventions for the post-resuscitated, pre-transported, and sick newborn.
Online Continuing Education
Learn on Demand is an online educational portal that enables users to be part of a community of learners and earn continuing education credit through live and recorded events.
Additional Programs
Provides evidence-based obstetrics and neonatal guidelines for Arkansas clinicians.
TeleNursery
Promotes regionalization of care and collaboration in Arkansas. Provides neonatal and subspecialty consults, transport coordination, follow up and education. The program includes virtual census rounds, led by a neonatologist, with outlying nurseries around the state.
TeleObstetrics
Provides obstetrical care for women throughout the state without the need for patient travel to Central Arkansas. TeleObstetrical services include high-risk obstetrics, ultrasounds, fetal echocardiography, psychiatry, diabetes, infectious disease and other specialty services.