Improving Youth COVID-19 Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Through a Novel Medical Student Driven Curriculum.

ABSTRACT: Despite widespread media coverage and public health messaging, many high school students lacked formal education about COVID-19 during the pandemic. Providing this education, particularly to underserved communities, may reduce health disparities and encourage youth to engage in the sciences. Twenty-five medical students at Emory University School of Medicine created a virtual, synchronous, COVID-19 curriculum. Learners included 25 students enrolled in a pipeline program from five high schools in metro-Atlanta. The five lesson topics included virus epidemiology, COVID-19 testing and mask-wearing, vaccine fundamentals, COVID-19 risk in communities, and mental health and wellness. Lessons were standardized through medical student-teacher practice presentations to faculty. The curriculum was e

SUBMITTER: Kuehl S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9805923 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature