Understanding motivations behind medical student involvement in COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although students were removed from patient-facing settings at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic due to concerns of burdening teaching physicians and depleting personal protective equipment, some leaders suggest students can be effectively utilized when personnel resources may be scarce. There have been narrative discussions surrounding medical student involvement, but no studies exploring the attitudes of these students. The authors aim to quantify the degree to which factors influenced a medical student's decision to or to not volunteer during the pandemic and to characterize medical students' attitudes towards medical professionals' duty to serve in a pandemic.

Methods

The authors developed and tested a secure web-based survey before distribution to studen

SUBMITTER: Bellomo TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9721039 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature