To establish an international teleneurology presence between Ibadan, Nigeria and Charlottesville, Virginia as a model for creating a long-term intellectual partnership between academic communities. 

Telemedicine is the practice of medicine remotely, where practitioner and patient are not in physical proximity.  This has now been translated into just about every facet of medicine, from consultation and acute treatment to chronic management.  Electronic connections in this way can also facilitate mentoring and medical education at all levels and to all manner of clinical providers (physicians, nurses, community health workers, pharmacists, medical students, etc.).  Ultimately, this can be a valuable approach for capacity building in resource-limited settings.  

We have developed a thorough telemedicine step-by-step guide to serve as a template for anyone interested in bi-directional education and training, collaborative research and mentoring. With little capital or equipment, it can be adapted to a wide variety of electronic platforms, clinical settings, research questions and specific populations.  Students at any level of training and medical professionals even outside of neurology can easily modify it to suit individual and institutional needs.

We outline some of the early successes of connectivity.  Some unique challenges of this ambitious electronic connectivity project, including existing infrastructure, resource allocation, legal issues, time differences and sociocultural milieu are also presented.  We suggested strategies for navigating these complexities.

Ultimately, we present a comprehensive template for establishing a fairly robust global telemedicine programme with little capital and basic infrastructure in any part of the world, with a particular emphasis on the fields of neurology and medical education. Such a system is powerfully poised to meet local medical and educational needs as well as foster scientific and educational collaborations between unique groups of intellectuals.