An Emergency Medicine Virtual Clerkship: Made for COVID, Here to Stay.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Safety concerns surrounding the coronavirus 2019 pandemic led to the prohibition of student rotations outside their home institutions. This resulted in emergency medicine (EM)-bound students having less specialty experience and exposure to outside programs and practice environments, and fewer opportunities to gain additional Standardized Letters of Evaluation, a cornerstone of the EM residency application. We filled this void by implementing a virtual clerkship.

Methods

We created a two-week virtual, fourth-year visiting clerkship focused on advanced medical knowledge topics, social determinants of health, professional development, and professional identity formation. Students completed asynchronous assignments and participated in small group-facilitated didacti

SUBMITTER: Villa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8782130 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature