Idle medical students review emerging COVID-19 research.

Idle medical students review emerging COVID-19 research. Med Educ Online. 2020 Dec;25(1):1770562 Authors: Boodman C, Lee S, Bullard J Abstract The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is causing wide-spread interruptions in medical education. With little warning, clinical rotations were cancelled and medical students were sent home. While pre-clinical students transitioned to online curricula, clinical students were left without discreet educational goals. Simultaneously, medical doctors were scrambling to maintain competence in the face of rapidly evolving COVID-19 information. Here, we describe an education program that integrates medical students into interdisciplinary teams to review emerging COVID-19 research that directly answers questions sent in by medical doctors. PMID: 32441229 [PubMed - in process]
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