Introduction: Telemedicine is the delivery of health care and the exchange of medical information across distances through electronic communications. Telemedicine includes the usage of technology and software to communicate with patients without direct contact, which can be given through secure videos, audios, or chats. In this research, we studied the experience of physicians in the provision of telemedicine services in Kuwait during the COVID-19 pandemic focusing on knowledge , practice, and attitude towards telemedicine.

Aim: The aim of our study is to highlight telemedicine practice among the primary health care physicians in Kuwait in order to provide authorities with data to help them facilitate provision of this service to the public.

Setting: Primary Health Care Doctors working in Public Health Care Centres in Kuwait during COVID-19 Pandemic.

Study Design: A Cross Sectional Study was conducted among 164 primary health care doctors working in public health care centres in Kuwait.

Methods and Materials: A representative sample of doctors were selected randomly from different health care centres distributed throughout the governorates of Kuwait. A sample of 400 doctors was collected, and a self-administered questionnaire was provided to however only 164 of them responded .Data collection was done through using SPSS and Microsoft Excel.

Results: Most of the respondents (39.6%) were 40-54 years ; gender distribution was almost equal. Only 31.1% (51) have demonstrated previous knowledge of telemedicine , a total of 22.7 % (37) have practiced telemedicine. Attitude towards telemedicine had a mean of 3.2 which showed that most responses were neutral.

Conclusion: Response rate in this study was limited, however some of the doctors have had practiced telemedicine, had good knowledge and attitude towards telemedicine. This study exhibits the importance of implication of a policy conducted by the Ministry Of Health of Kuwait regarding the use of telemedicine by doctors professionally.