Harnessing unique experiences to build competence: Medical student engagement in frontline care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jennifer M. Klasen; Roland Bingisser; Andrea Meienberg; Bryce J. M. Bogie

doi:10.4414/smw.2021.20480

Viewpoint

Vol. 151 No. 0708 (2021)

Harnessing unique experiences to build competence: Medical student engagement in frontline care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jennifer M. Klasen⁺⁻
Roland Bingisser⁺⁻
Andrea Meienberg⁺⁻
Bryce J. M. Bogie⁺⁻

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2021.20480
Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w20480
Published: 20.02.2021

References

Haleem A, Javaid M, Vaishya R. Effects of COVID-19 pandemic in daily life. Curr Med Res Pract. 2020;10(2):78–9. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmrp.2020.03.011
Mansella G, Rueegg M, Widmer AF, Tschudin-Sutter S, Battegay M, Hoff J, et al. COVID-19 triage and test center: Safety, feasibility, and outcomes of low-threshold testing. J Clin Med. 2020;9(10):3217. doi:.https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9103217
Klasen JM, Meienberg A, Bogie BJM. Medical student engagement during COVID-19: Lessons learned and areas for improvement. Med Educ. 2021;55(1):115–8. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14405
Miller DG, Pierson L, Doernberg S. The role of medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ann Intern Med. 2020;173(2):145–6. doi:.https://doi.org/10.7326/M20-1281
De Sá Dias Machado MB. On the frontlines, behind the computer screen. Acad Med. 2020;95(11):e10–1. Available at: https://doi.org/doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000003601. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000003601
Chao TN, Frost AS, Newman JG. Interactive virtual surgical education during COVID-19 and beyond. Acad Med. 2020;95(11):e9. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000003609
Pellegrini WR, Danis DO, 3rd, Levi JR. Medical student participation in otolaryngology telemedicine clinic during COVID-19: A hidden opportunity. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2020;194599820970964.https://doi.org/10.1177/0194599820970964
Tsang ACO, Lee PP, Chen JY, Leung GKK. From bedside to webside: A neurological clinical teaching experience. Med Educ. 2020;54(7):660. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14175
Rasmussen S, Sperling P, Poulsen MS, Emmersen J, Andersen S. Medical students for health-care staff shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet. 2020;395(10234):e79–80. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30923-5
Harvey A. Covid-19: medical schools given powers to graduate final year students early to help NHS. BMJ. 2020;368:m1227. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1227
Klasen JM, Meienberg A, Nickel C, Bingisser R. SWAB team instead of SWAT team: Medical students as a frontline force during the COVID-19 pandemic. Med Educ. 2020;54(9):860. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14224
Farber ON. Medical students can help combat Covid-19. Don’t send them home. STAT. Available from: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/14/medical-students-can-help-combat-covid-19/ [accessed 2020 September 20].
Frank JR, Snell LS, Cate OT, Holmboe ES, Carraccio C, Swing SR, et al. Competency-based medical education: theory to practice. Med Teach. 2010;32(8):638–45. doi:.https://doi.org/10.3109/0142159X.2010.501190
Lai J, Ma S, Wang Y, Cai Z, Hu J, Wei N, et al. Factors associated with mental health outcomes among health care workers exposed to coronavirus disease 2019. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(3):e203976. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.3976
Gupta S, Sahoo S. Pandemic and mental health of the front-line healthcare workers: A review and implications in the Indian context amidst COVID-19. Gen Psychiatr. 2020;33(5):e100284. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2020-100284
Klasen JM, Vithyapathy A, Zante B, Burm S. “The storm has arrived”: the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on medical students. Perspect Med Educ. 2020;9(3):181–5. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-020-00592-2
Aebischer O, Weilenmann S, Gachoud D, Méan M, Spiller TR. Physical and psychological health of medical students involved in the coronavirus disease 2019 response in Switzerland. Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150(4950):w20418. doi:.https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20418

Publication image

How to Cite

1.

Klasen JM, Bingisser R, Meienberg A, Bogie BJM. Harnessing unique experiences to build competence: Medical student engagement in frontline care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Swiss Med Wkly [Internet]. 2021 Feb. 20 [cited 2024 Apr. 19];151(0708):w20480. Available from: https://smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/2954

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Most read articles by the same author(s)

Jérémie Scire, Sarah Nadeau, Timothy G. Vaughan, Gavin Brupbacher, Simon Fuchs, Jürg Sommer, Katrin N. Koch, Reto Misteli, Lukas Mundorff, Thomas Götz, Tobias Eichenberger, Carlos Quinto, Miodrag Savic, Andrea Meienberg, Thilo Burkard, Michael Mayr, Christoph A. Meier, Andreas Widmer, Richard Kuehl, Adrian Egli, Hans H. Hirsch, Stefano Bassetti, Christian H. Nickel, Katharina M. Rentsch, Werner Kübler, Roland Bingisser, Manuel Battegay, Sarah Tschudin-Sutter, Tanja Stadler, Reproductive number of the COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland with a focus on the Cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 150 No. 1920 (2020)
Ketina Arslani, Ceylan Eken, Sarah Tschudin-Sutter, Caroline E. Gebhard, Nuria Zellweger, Stefano Bassetti, Roland Bingisser, Maurin Lampart, Stefan Osswald, Gabriela M. Kuster, Raphael Twerenbold, Sex disparities in patients with suspected COVID-19 presenting at an emergency department in Switzerland , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 152 No. 1920 (2022)
Isabelle Arnold, Jeannette-Marie Busch, Lukas Terhalle, Christian H. Nickel, Roland Bingisser, Throughput delays: causes, predictors, and outcomes – observational cohort in a Swiss emergency department , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 153 No. 5 (2023)
Christian H. Nickel, Marco Ruegg, Hans Pargger, Roland Bingisser, Age, comorbidity, frailty status: effects on disposition and resource allocation during the COVID-19 pandemic , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 150 No. 1718 (2020)
Stefan Ammann, Eckehart Schoell, Ricardo Nieves Ortega, Roland Bingisser, Ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia and reduction of distal radius fractures in an emergency department , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 150 No. 3940 (2020)
Roland Bingisser, Christian H. Nickel, The last decade of symptom-oriented research in emergency medicine: triage, work-up, and disposition , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 149 No. 4142 (2019)
Andrea S. Jauslin, Noemi R. Simon, Nina L. Giudici, Marco Rueegg, Tobias Zimmermann, Matthias Diebold, Sarah Tschudin-Sutter, Raphael Twerenbold, Christian H. Nickel, Roland Bingisser, Mimics and chameleons of COVID-19: patient presentation and accuracy of triage during the first wave , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 151 No. 4950 (2021)
Andrea S. Jauslin, Leandra Schultze, Daniel Knuchel, Noemi R. Simon, Christian H. Nickel, Roland Bingisser, Disparities in emergency department access, resource allocation, and outcomes between migrants and the local population , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 151 No. 4344 (2021)
Nora Schaub, Tujana Boldanova, Markus Noveanu, Nisha Arenja, Heinz Hermann, Raphael Twerenbold, Reno Frei, Roland Bingisser, Andrej Trampuz, Christian Müller, Incremental value of multiplex real-time PCR for the early diagnosis of sepsis in the emergency department , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 144 No. 0506 (2014)
Katrin Uehli, David Miedinger, Roland Bingisser, Selina Dürr, Edith Holsboer-Trachsler, Sabrina Maier, Amar Jayant Mehta, Roland Müller, Christian Schindler, Stefanie Zogg, Nino Künzli, Jörg Daniel Leuppi, Sleep problems and work injury types: a study of 180 patients in a Swiss emergency department , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 143 No. 5152 (2013)

1 2 > >>

[1] Haleem A, Javaid M, Vaishya R. Effects of COVID-19 pandemic in daily life. Curr Med Res Pract. 2020;10(2):78–9. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmrp.2020.03.011

[2] Mansella G, Rueegg M, Widmer AF, Tschudin-Sutter S, Battegay M, Hoff J, et al. COVID-19 triage and test center: Safety, feasibility, and outcomes of low-threshold testing. J Clin Med. 2020;9(10):3217. doi:.https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9103217

[3] Klasen JM, Meienberg A, Bogie BJM. Medical student engagement during COVID-19: Lessons learned and areas for improvement. Med Educ. 2021;55(1):115–8. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14405

[4] Miller DG, Pierson L, Doernberg S. The role of medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ann Intern Med. 2020;173(2):145–6. doi:.https://doi.org/10.7326/M20-1281

[5] De Sá Dias Machado MB. On the frontlines, behind the computer screen. Acad Med. 2020;95(11):e10–1. Available at: https://doi.org/doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000003601. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000003601

[6] Chao TN, Frost AS, Newman JG. Interactive virtual surgical education during COVID-19 and beyond. Acad Med. 2020;95(11):e9. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000003609

[7] Pellegrini WR, Danis DO, 3rd, Levi JR. Medical student participation in otolaryngology telemedicine clinic during COVID-19: A hidden opportunity. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2020;194599820970964.https://doi.org/10.1177/0194599820970964

[8] Tsang ACO, Lee PP, Chen JY, Leung GKK. From bedside to webside: A neurological clinical teaching experience. Med Educ. 2020;54(7):660. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14175

[9] Rasmussen S, Sperling P, Poulsen MS, Emmersen J, Andersen S. Medical students for health-care staff shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet. 2020;395(10234):e79–80. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30923-5

[10] Harvey A. Covid-19: medical schools given powers to graduate final year students early to help NHS. BMJ. 2020;368:m1227. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1227

[11] Klasen JM, Meienberg A, Nickel C, Bingisser R. SWAB team instead of SWAT team: Medical students as a frontline force during the COVID-19 pandemic. Med Educ. 2020;54(9):860. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14224

[12] Farber ON. Medical students can help combat Covid-19. Don’t send them home. STAT. Available from: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/14/medical-students-can-help-combat-covid-19/ [accessed 2020 September 20].

[13] Frank JR, Snell LS, Cate OT, Holmboe ES, Carraccio C, Swing SR, et al. Competency-based medical education: theory to practice. Med Teach. 2010;32(8):638–45. doi:.https://doi.org/10.3109/0142159X.2010.501190

[14] Lai J, Ma S, Wang Y, Cai Z, Hu J, Wei N, et al. Factors associated with mental health outcomes among health care workers exposed to coronavirus disease 2019. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(3):e203976. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.3976

[15] Gupta S, Sahoo S. Pandemic and mental health of the front-line healthcare workers: A review and implications in the Indian context amidst COVID-19. Gen Psychiatr. 2020;33(5):e100284. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2020-100284

[16] Klasen JM, Vithyapathy A, Zante B, Burm S. “The storm has arrived”: the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on medical students. Perspect Med Educ. 2020;9(3):181–5. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-020-00592-2

[17] Aebischer O, Weilenmann S, Gachoud D, Méan M, Spiller TR. Physical and psychological health of medical students involved in the coronavirus disease 2019 response in Switzerland. Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150(4950):w20418. doi:.https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20418