RESUMEN
With the ongoing coronavirus, journals and the media have extensively covered the impacts on doctors, nurses, physician assistants, and other healthcare workers. However, one group that has rarely been mentioned despite being significantly impacted is medical students and medical education overall. This piece, prepared by both a medical student and a cardiothoracic surgeon with a long career in academic medicine, discusses the recent history of medical education and how it has led to issues now with distance-based learning due to COVID-19. It concludes with a call to action for the medical education system to adapt so it can meet the needs of healthcare learners during COVID-19 and even beyond.
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Infecciones por Coronavirus/epidemiología , Educación a Distancia/métodos , Educación de Pregrado en Medicina/tendencias , Evaluación Educacional , Personal de Salud/educación , Neumonía Viral/epidemiología , COVID-19 , Competencia Clínica , Curriculum , Educación de Pregrado en Medicina/métodos , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Pandemias , Estudiantes de Medicina/estadística & datos numéricos , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
We received a response to our Editorial from a group in Brazil that raised valuable concerns about the struggles in transforming medical education in low-income countries. Here, we address the concerns they raised that reinforce the global need for a "Coalition for Medical Education."