Piloting 'Virtual Ward': a novel platform for delivering medical student education by residents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical experiences lie at the heart of undergraduate medical education (UGME). COVID-19 related disruptions in Medical Education impacted medical students substantially. As educators, efforts directed at developing new mediums to educate our medical students in the face of these new limitations were vital. The Virtual Ward (VW) pilot was an inaugural resident-driven, virtual educational opportunity aimed at supplement the learning of core internal medicine skills for undergraduate medical students.

Methods

Interested medical students were paired in groups of 5-6 with an internal medicine resident tutor. The McMaster University UGME core internal medicine topic list was provided to resident tutors to teach in an open, morning-report format in which students direc

SUBMITTER: Kappel C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9123921 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature