Military Medical Students' Perspectives on Medical Education in the COVID-19 Era

Rachel Crispell; Catherine Woodard; Kaitlyn Mullin; Yonatan Moreh; Eric G Meyer

doi:10.1093/milmed/usab478

Military Medical Students' Perspectives on Medical Education in the COVID-19 Era

Mil Med. 2022 Jan 4;187(1-2):9-11. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usab478.

Authors

Rachel Crispell¹, Catherine Woodard^{2

3}, Kaitlyn Mullin^{4

5}, Yonatan Moreh⁶, Eric G Meyer⁷

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, Class of 2023, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
² School of Medicine, Class of 2020, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
³ Battalion Aid Station, Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, CA 92055, USA.
⁴ School of Medicine, Class of 2021, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics Residency Program, San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
⁶ School of Medicine, Class of 2022, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.

Abstract

In response to the COVID pandemic, Uniformed Services University (USU) suspended clerkships. As the nation's military medical school, USU had to keep students safe while still preparing them to be military physicians. In this commentary, we, a group of USU students, explore what this experience taught us about military medicine.

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States 2021. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Education, Medical*
Humans
Military Medicine* / education
Military Personnel*
SARS-CoV-2
Schools, Medical
Students, Medical*