Project ECHO® at University Health Network

We bring an entire interprofessional team to your office

Join our weekly online sessions. They include an overview of best practices and discussions of real patient cases, with expert diagnostic and treatment suggestions. Whether you present a case, or just listen, you’ll learn from multiple perspectives and gain up-to-date knowledge.

We welcome all primary healthcare providers to join ECHO

Get experts’ insights on patients with:

liver diseases
concussion
chronic pain
rheumatology

ECHO UHN

Introduction to our Programs

ECHO is an interactive online medical education program, connecting health care providers with an interprofessional specialist team to advance learning and enhance clinical skills.

ECHO Impact

ECHO launched in Ontario in 2014. There are more than 330 ECHO hubs in 37 countries, including USA, UK and Australia.

Cases Discussed

Patrticipants

CPD Hours

ECHO UHN

Starting with ECHO

Each Session includes:
- Didactic Lectures to share current best practices.
- Case discussions involving real, de-identified patients

Calendar

Mondays

ECHO Liver

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Wednesdays

ECHO Concussion

12:15-1:30PM

Thursdays

ECHO Pain

12:30 - 2:00PM

Fridays

ECHO Rheumatology

12:00pm - 1:30pm

How ECHO at UHN can Benefit You

Gain best practice skills

Access to a specialist interprofessional (hub) team

Join a community of practice

Earn Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits

Receive real-time recommendations for patient cases presented

Enhanced confidence and skills to deliver best practice care to patients

No cost to participate

Convenient, online learning (via zoom)

ECHO

Presenting a patient case

ECHO offers access to a community of health care providers who support each other to provide best care for patients, without the wait time. All patient cases are anonymized.

Testimonials

“Rheumatology always seemed like this world of its own and I think it [ECHO] did demystify it more. And, for my practice, being able to identify what’s not chronic low back pain and what could be something inflammatory was empowering. Then, when appropriate to order some screening tests and not over-order. To me, that was a big helpful point.” Family Doctor, Sudbury

I would say that my chronic pain patients, I don’t have a huge number.  They are my most challenging patients and I’ve got their faces in my brain.  [M]y top three probably take more brain and mental energy than the next 500 most challenging people.  […] I often felt quite helpless before ECHO.  [My patients] had seen all the specialists and the specialists had sent them all back to me with not a lot of help.  So with ECHO I feel like I’m getting the tools to better deal with them.  And I feel that if I have a challenging case, I can present to this panel of experts [and] I get good answers.  Or if I have a question about chronic pain, I can get it answered by an expert really easily.  So, it’s like I’ve got back-up for my hardest, most challenging people. Family Doctor, Southwestern Ontario

“When [the recommendation sheet] came back, I did share that with my patient.  And my patient found that very validating and very helpful that the case was discussed.  And she actually took some piece that I had been struggling with her to actually follow through on.  She actually did follow through on, like some of the physiotherapy and some of the actual social work piece, because it was actually coming from the experts from ECHO – which I thought was neat.” Nurse Practitioner, Northwestern Ontario