How COVID-19 is Shaking Up Medical Education—For Good

With COVID-19 shows no signs of letting up soon, leaders at medical schools are adapting their plans for education in the fall to meet the new demands of the pandemic, according to a FierceHealthcare report. That means going digital in an unprecedented way—both in terms of classes and in terms of the type of clinical care students are learning about. 

“It’s the new normal, and we’re going to need to tailor our medical education curriculum and other health professions’ education curricula to train our students for that new normal,” Stephen Spann, MD, founding dean of the College of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at the University of Houston, told Fierce Healthcare. 

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