Biomedical graduate student experiences during the COVID-19 university closure.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19-associated university closures moved classes online and interrupted ongoing research in universities throughout the US. In Vanderbilt University, first year biomedical sciences PhD students were in the middle of their spring semester coursework and in the process of identifying a thesis research lab, while senior students who had already completed the first year were at various stages of their graduate training and were working on their thesis research projects. To learn how the university closure and resulting interruptions impacted our students' learning and well-being, we administered two surveys, one to the first year students and the other to the senior students. Our main findings show that the university closure negatively impacted the overall psychological health of about o

SUBMITTER: Varadarajan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8445460 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature