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. 2021 Sep;120(9):1782-1784.
doi: 10.1016/j.jfma.2021.02.016. Epub 2021 Mar 8.

The impact of COVID-19 on medical education: Experiences from one medical university in Taiwan

Chih-Hao Liu  1 , Hugo You-Hsien Lin  2
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The impact of COVID-19 on medical education: Experiences from one medical university in Taiwan

Chih-Hao Liu et al. J Formos Med Assoc. 2021 Sep.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic threat. Although there are huge impacts on health care, the influences of medical educations are less discussed. Our brief communication is the first-hand discussions of the measures of medical schools of Taiwan facing COVID-19 and the influences of medical education.

Keywords: COVID-19; Medical education; Taiwan.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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