Reimagining Undergraduate Medical Education in a Post-COVID-19 Landscape

Matthew Z Guo; Jawara Allen; Matthew Sakumoto; Amit Pahwa; Lekshmi Santhosh

doi:10.1007/s11606-022-07503-7

Reimagining Undergraduate Medical Education in a Post-COVID-19 Landscape

J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Jul;37(9):2297-2301. doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07503-7. Epub 2022 Jun 16.

Authors

Matthew Z Guo^#¹, Jawara Allen^#¹, Matthew Sakumoto², Amit Pahwa³, Lekshmi Santhosh⁴

Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. [email protected].

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Online education due to the COVID-19 pandemic caused many medical schools to increasingly employ asynchronous and virtual learning that favored student independence and flexibility. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted existing shortcomings of the healthcare field in providing for marginalized and underserved communities. This perspective piece details the authors' opinions as medical students and medical educators on how to leverage the aspects of pandemic medical education to train physicians who can better address these needs.

Keywords: social determinants of health; undergraduate medical education; virtual learning.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Education, Distance*
Education, Medical*
Education, Medical, Undergraduate*
Humans
Pandemics
Students, Medical*

Grants and funding

T32 GM136577/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States