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Ward-based learning in a pandemic: an approach to ensuring sustainable medical education for healthcare students

Patterson, Charlotte; Calvo, Kerry; Silverton, Ruth; Rodger, Alison; (2022) Ward-based learning in a pandemic: an approach to ensuring sustainable medical education for healthcare students. Future Healthcare Journal , 9 (2) pp. 200-206. 10.7861/fhj.2021-0186. Green open access

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Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused significant disruption to medical education, requiring those involved in its delivery to radically revise teaching programmes to ensure continuation of delivery of training to future healthcare professionals. We describe our experience of implementing an infection teaching programme on a COVID-19 ward at a London teaching hospital affiliated to University College London (UCL) Medical School during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We performed a scoping literature review of all papers published on medical education delivery in the pandemic between January 2020 - May 2021. We used the results from this, along with our pre-existing knowledge of medical education theory, to summarise 10 key learning recommendations for planning medical education in a pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 is unlikely to be the only significant interruption to medical education we see in our lifetimes. We should develop robust and sustainable teaching programmes with the aim of reducing disruption in the future.

Type: Article
Title: Ward-based learning in a pandemic: an approach to ensuring sustainable medical education for healthcare students
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.7861/fhj.2021-0186
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.7861/fhj.2021-0186
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
Keywords: SARS-CoV-2, medical education, medical students, pandemic, ward-based learning
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health > Infection and Population Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153864
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