This type of VA variability kills me. I’m in a fully virtual role and able to supervise interns doing VVC apts. But I know other fully virtual psychologists in other systems who can’t.
Or if they are supervising, the person who gets workload credit is the designated ‘on-site coverage’ clinician who has no connection to the trainee except to be there for emergencies.
RE: on-site supervision, if a trainee is seeing patients in-person, they need to have someone on-site, and that person on-site would likely receive the workload credit, as they'd probably be signing the note and were responsible for the intern during that patient appointment.
If you're the one supervising the intern remotely (and they're seeing patients remotely), and the on-site person is just providing backup supervision in case something happens in-person or the intern needs to urgently track someone down, you should probably be getting the workload credit. You would just want to be sure the patients are scheduled in your clinics (or an intern/trainee clinic).
Buuuut every site can be different. If it's written in the site's training SOPs and such that way, then that's just how it is until it's changed.
In general, my take is that sites prefer to have interns on site, as they're better able to manage the overall training experience, and resources are typically more readily-available and easily-accessible for the trainees. However, even if a site allows trainees to perform some amount of telework, that doesn't mean
all trainees will be appropriate for telework. It can depend on multiple variables such as what rotation(s) they're on and what type of work they're doing, what type/degree/intensity of supervision and development the training program has determined is appropriate for them, if they're on or have been on any type of probation plan, etc.
