Adapting the Clerkship Program During Covid-19, Annual Report 2018-2020
"We had to consider the safety of the students, the safety of the patients, the safety of the faculty, and the capacity of the system to host learners."
On March 16, 2020, during the earliest stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, the DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster made the difficult decision to pull its undergraduate medical students out of the clinical learning environment.
“The system was in crisis and nobody knew what they were dealing with. We didn’t have a good understanding of safety. That was a decision across the country – all students in all provinces were pulled out of the clinical environment at the same time,” said Dr. Jill Rudkowski, the Chair of Clerkship and Concept Integration and Review for the DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster.
“We had to consider the safety of the students, the safety of the patients, the safety of the faculty, and the capacity of the system to host learners.”
It was up to Dr. Rudkowski and her Clerkship team to figure out a way to continue to train medical students while not having access to learning in the clinical environment. In response, in the span of just two weeks, she led the creation of an 11-week curriculum to replace some of the learning they would have experienced had it not been for Covid-19.
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