The SCAETC Central Office is located at the University of New Mexico Health Science Center ECHO Institute. The ECHO Institute trains partners in the ECHO Model™ to scale their own social initiatives. The ECHO Model is not traditional “telemedicine” where the specialist assumes care of the patient, but is instead telementoring, a guided practice model where the participating clinician retains responsibility for managing the patient.
Several partners within the SCAETC region use the ECHO Model, which connects groups of community providers with specialists at centers of excellence in regular real-time collaborative sessions. The sessions, designed around case based learning and mentorship, help local community members gain the expertise required to provide needed services.
The interprofessional team of academic and community experts both teach and learn from each other with the goal of increasing the knowledge, skills, and comfort level of providing best-practice care across diverse cultural and geographical contexts. As the capacity of the local workforce increases, lives improve.
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This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Under grant number U1OHA33225 (South Central AIDS Education and Training Center). It was awarded to the University of New Mexico. No percentage of this project was financed with non-governmental sources. This information or content and conclusions are those of the authors and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.
