Guiding principles for undergraduate medical education in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Med Teach
; 43(2): 137-141, 2021 02.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-900128
ABSTRACT
As the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York City's medical schools experienced dramatic disruptions in every aspect of medical education. Remote learning was created, seemingly overnight, clerkships were disrupted, licensing examinations were cancelled, teaching faculty were redeployed, student volunteers rallied, and everyone was required to shelter at home. Seismic changes were required to adapt the authors' educational programs to a constantly evolving, unpredictable, and ever-worsening public health crisis. Entirely new communication strategies were adopted and thousands of decisions had to be made, often with little time to carefully reflect on the consequences of those decisions. What allowed each school to navigate these treacherous waters was a set of guiding principles that were used to ground each conversation, and inform every decision. While the language varied somewhat between schools, the core principles were universal and framed a way forward at a time when information, data, precedent, and best practices did not exist. The authors share these guiding principles in the hope that colleagues at other medical schools will find them to be a useful framework as we all continue to cope with the impact of COVID-19 on the future of medical education.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Schools, Medical
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Telemedicine
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Education, Medical, Undergraduate
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Med Teach
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
0142159X.2020.1841892
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