The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, in collaboration with the National Ebola and Special Pathogens Training and Education Centers, and Project ECHO, launched a series of COVID-19 Clinical Rounds on March 24, 2020.
This initiative supports a series of ECHO programs that follow the needs of participants based on the trajectory of the pandemic.
The aim is to create peer-to-peer learning networks where clinicians who have more experience treating patients with COVID-19 share their challenges and successes with clinicians across the U.S. and around the world with a wide variety of experience treating COVID-19.
Virtual Peer-to-Peer Learning to Enhance and Accelerate the Health System Response to COVID-19: The HHS ASPR Project ECHO COVID-19 Clinical Rounds Initiative
Each session includes brief presentations from experienced expert clinicians; the presentations have included representatives from:
Representatives from approximately 30 relevant national professional organizations round out the panel of expert discussants. The majority of each session is spent in discussion related to Q & A generated by the participants. As of mid-September, 2021, more than 51,00 people from all 50 states and more than 30 countries participated in the sessions.