COVID-19 Resource Portal

OTN provides supports to help clinicians assess and treat patients via virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Practice guideline from the College of Nurses of Ontario.

"This playbook was written to help Canadian physicians introduce virtual patient encounters (aka telemedicine) into their daily practices. It is intended to be virtual care platform and vendor agnostic...While not exhaustive, the playbook covers all key considerations to succeed at providing safe, effective and efficient care."

Resource from OntarioMD and the Ontario Medical Association on virtual care, what can I do, and how can I do it.

Information organized by province.

Adapted for Ontario from a recent BMJ article on assessing respiratory patients by video or voice call.

An article with tips and case studies. BMJ 2020;368:m1182.

Links to various solutions from the Ontario Telemedicine Network, organized by type of clinician.

Resources from the Canadian Medical Association, including links to videos.

A series of 10 videos, from 11 to 25 minutes about virtual mental health care, including getting started rapidly, digital compassion, equity, evaluation, one-to-one and group care, and more.

5 min 30 second video with tips for providing telemental-health.

Quick tips and technological tools to get started with virtual education and teaching from the Centre for Faculty Development at the University of Toronto.

This guide focuses on the teaching and supervision considerations related to medical students and residents providing virtual care.

"This resource collection was built in response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s significant impact on the teaching and learning of health professionals. Designed by diverse educators, this working collection features clinical learning experiences, which can be readily used or easily adapted for specific, local settings, without the need for physical patient contact."

A list of virtual simulations and virtual patient platforms plus other tools that enable distance experiential learning.

This video list of insights comes from experts in the field of online teaching.

The objective of this discussion paper from the CMA is to review the issues and challenges of making digital health care, and in particular virtual care, a mainstream activity in the delivery of health care in Canada.

The authors outline core competencies to be used in developing training programs for practicing physicians, medical students, and other clinicians using telemedicine as a medium for providing patient care.