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

Charlotte Patterson, Kerry Calvo, Ruth Silverton and Alison Rodger
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/fhj.2021-0186
Future Healthc J May 2022
Charlotte Patterson
ARoyal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK and University College London, London, UK
Roles: clinical research and teaching fellow in infectious diseases
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  • For correspondence: charlotte.patterson2@nhs.net
Kerry Calvo
BUniversity College London, London, UK
Roles: associate professor of medical education
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Ruth Silverton
CCambridge University, Cambridge, UK and University College London, London, UK
Roles: nephrology specialty doctor and medical education fellow
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Alison Rodger
DRoyal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK and University College London, London, UK
Roles: professor of infectious diseases
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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.

KEYWORDS:
  • medical education
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • ward-based learning
  • pandemic
  • medical students
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Charlotte Patterson, Kerry Calvo, Ruth Silverton, Alison Rodger
Future Healthc J May 2022, fhj.2021-0186; DOI: 10.7861/fhj.2021-0186

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Ward-based learning in a pandemic: an approach to ensuring sustainable medical education for healthcare students
Charlotte Patterson, Kerry Calvo, Ruth Silverton, Alison Rodger
Future Healthc J May 2022, fhj.2021-0186; DOI: 10.7861/fhj.2021-0186
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