RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Ward-based learning in a pandemic: an approach to ensuring sustainable medical education for healthcare students
JF Future Healthcare Journal
JO Future Healthc J
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP fhj.2021-0186
DO 10.7861/fhj.2021-0186
A1 Charlotte Patterson
A1 Kerry Calvo
A1 Ruth Silverton
A1 Alison Rodger
YR 2022
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/early/2022/05/05/fhj.2021-0186.abstract
AB 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.