Students as Community Vaccinators: Implementation of A Service-Learning COVID-19 Vaccination Program.

ABSTRACT: While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused major educational disruptions, it has also catalyzed innovation in service-learning as a real-time response to pandemic-related problems. The limited number of qualified providers was primed to restrict SARS-CoV-2 vaccination efforts. Thus, New York State temporarily allowed healthcare professional trainees to vaccinate, enabling medical students to support an overwhelmed healthcare system and contribute to the public health crisis. Here, we describe a service-learning vaccination program directed towards underserved communities. A faculty-led curriculum prepared medical students to communicate with patients about COVID-19 vaccines and to administer intramuscular injections. Qualified students were deployed to public vaccination clinics located in und

SUBMITTER: Griswold AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9324302 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature