How we make choices and sacrifices in medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Education, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES), Rigshospitalet, Denmark.
² Medical Education Research and Scholarship Unit, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
³ Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand.
⁴ Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁵ Department of Community Health Sciences, Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard et al. Med Teach. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;42(7):741-743.

doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2020.1767769. Epub 2020 May 22.

¹ Department of Medical Education, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES), Rigshospitalet, Denmark.
² Medical Education Research and Scholarship Unit, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
³ Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand.
⁴ Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁵ Department of Community Health Sciences, Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Abstract

In this commentary, we highlight some of the pressing choices and sacrifices we must make in medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Planning; continuing; general; undergraduate.

Sacrifices in medical education: Preserving patient contact.
Agrawal A. Agrawal A. Med Teach. 2021 Feb;43(2):239. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2020.1799962. Epub 2020 Jul 31. Med Teach. 2021. PMID: 32734798 No abstract available.