How we make choices and sacrifices in medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

In this commentary, we highlight some of the pressing choices and sacrifices we must make in medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords:

• Planning
• continuing
• undergraduate
• general

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The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the article.

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Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard

Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard, MD, PhD, DrMedSci, is a medical education scientist at Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES) Rigshospitalet, Denmark.

Jennifer Cleland

Jennifer Cleland, MSc, PhD, D Clin Psychol, FRCP (Edin), FoAME, is Assistant Dean for Assessment and Director of the Medical Education Research and Scholarship Unit, Nanyang Technological University Singapore.

Tim Wilkinson

Tim Wilkinson, MBChB, MClinEd, PHD, MD, FRACP, FRCP, FANZAHPE. MBChB, is programme director, Otago Medical School, New Zealand, Censor for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, consultant physician.

Rachel H. Ellaway

Rachel H. Ellaway, PhD, Department of Community Health Sciences, is Director of the Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.