On behalf of the SGIM Council, I wish to thank Drs. Cho, Cameron, and Kheterpal for submitting their comments about the SGIM Telehealth Position Statement.1,2 The Council agrees that we should continue to advocate for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to allow synchronous virtual supervision of resident physicians and other clinicians-in-training, regardless of geographic setting.
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