Building a Successful, Socially-Distanced Family Medicine Clerkship in the COVID Crisis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many family medicine clerkships across the United States are scrambling to provide meaningful medical education in a new clinical environment. Most medical schools have paused or severely limited the direct patient care that has been the core educational requirement of the clinical clerkships. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a curricular model that meets the family medicine clerkship learning objectives via telemedicine clinical instruction.

Methods

We created a clerkship where all clinical encounters took place by phone or video visits. Students were required to have telemedicine encounters with at least 20 patients over a 4-week clerkship. We also created a telemedicine illness script-writing assignment t

SUBMITTER: Hayes JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7789878 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature