Chermside-Scabbo, Christopher J. Douglas, Katherine Ghaznavi, Cyrus Pollard, Bruin Abada, Sharon Goodman, Jared V. Migotsky, Nicole Park, Kay Sherburne, Haley Coolman, Audrey
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The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted medical education worldwide, leading medical students to organize response initiatives. This paper summarizes the Washington University Medical Student COVID-19 Response (WUMS-CR) and shares lessons to guide future initiatives. We used a three-principle framework of community needs assessment, faculty mentorship, and...
Villanueva, Eric W. Meissner, Hannah Walters, Ryan W.
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Purpose Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, American medical schools made swift changes to clinical education based on guidelines provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges. The purpose of this study was to collect medical student perceptions of the solely online learning environment, their quality of life (QoL), and the pandemic res...
Elengickal, Joseph Antony Delgado, Amanda M. Jain, Shefali Priya Diller, Elena Rae Valli, Catherine E. Dhillon, Kesar K. Lee, Hee K. Baskar, Rohitha MacArthur, Rodger D.
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The Medical College of Georgia (MCG) responded to the COVID-19 pandemic’s challenges to medical education with a novel, comprehensive curriculum. The Pandemic Medicine Elective was an effective solution with a safe, virtual alternative to traditional clinical experiences. As the elective evolved to include pre-clinical students and service initiati...
Said, Jordan Taylor Schwartz, Andrea Wershof
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COVID-19 has necessitated a rapid shift to the remote delivery of medical education. We present a timely collection of tips, techniques, and strategies for the facilitation of remote teaching sessions and modification of curriculum design, assessment, and evaluation. We step through Kern’s six-step curriculum design, recommending to (1) consider se...
Zhao, Caroline Hu, Yenya
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Navigating the beginning of medical school can be challenging for students. The new learning environment and the increased volume and complexity of information presented within a short period of time demand more efficient and effective study strategies. We describe the experience and perspective of a first-year medical student, as well as the adjus...
Slivkoff, Mark D. Johnson, Catherine Tackett, Sean
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Problem The COVID-19 pandemic required rapid changes to medical curricula, forcing emergent transition to purely remote learning. At Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine (ICOM), all in-person sessions were suspended on March 16, 2020. One course affected included the first-year, 4-week Respiratory System course which began on March 9. Methods On t...
Rambukwella, Mishan Balamurugan, Aniksha Klapholz, Henry Beninger, Paul
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Gould, Douglas J. Hammond, Michelle
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The purpose of the present project is to describe a cohort-based intradepartmental leadership program at our medical school. Leadership development programs are becoming popular in academic medicine as institutions seek solutions to problems. We developed and implemented a cohort-based leadership program within the Department of Foundational Medica...
Guiter, Gerardo E. Sapia, Sandra Wright, Alexander I. Hutchins, Gordon G. A. Arayssi, Thurayya
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Introduction Due to the Covid-19 social distancing restrictions, in March 2020, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar decided to replace students’ clinical instruction with novel online electives. Hence, we implemented an innovative online and remote pathology curriculum, anchored on virtual microscopy and Zoom videoconferencing: ideal tools to support onli...
Moerdler, Scott Costich, Marguerite Redwood, Emily Avis Catallozzi, Marina Friedman, Suzanne
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