Medical education in the midst of pandemic and beyond
Between spring and early summer, more than 30 new virtual elective courses were created for clinical curriculum phase students and spanned a wide variety of topics: COVID‐19‐related electives, virtual radiation oncology, ultrasound, dermatology, medical informatics, introduction to American Indian/A...
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Published in | FASEB BioAdvances Vol. 3; no. 5; pp. 374 - 376 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article Web Resource |
Language | English |
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United States
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
01.05.2021
John Wiley and Sons Inc Wiley |
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Summary: | Between spring and early summer, more than 30 new virtual elective courses were created for clinical curriculum phase students and spanned a wide variety of topics: COVID‐19‐related electives, virtual radiation oncology, ultrasound, dermatology, medical informatics, introduction to American Indian/Alaskan Native Health, family medicine, medical decision‐making, narrative medicine, and various subspecialties in pediatrics. Medical students appreciated the elective because of its timeliness, pertinence, utility, and the wide range of topics that were included such as epidemiology, virology, vaccinology, narrative medicine, mental health impact of isolation, and use of social media to spread both false and accurate information. TELEHEALTH Even before the pandemic, telehealth and related digital health strategies were predicted to play a key role in meeting the nation's health professional shortage. 1‐3 As such, telemedicine was already the focus one of our program objectives that students had to learn before earning their medical degree. |
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Bibliography: | Managing Medical Curricula In the Pandemic This article is part of the Special Collection. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 This article is part of the Managing Medical Curricula In the Pandemic Special Collection. |
ISSN: | 2573-9832 2573-9832 |
DOI: | 10.1096/fba.2020-00087 |