COVID and Clerkship: An Outcome Harvest of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Clinical Clerkship Curriculum at Queen’s University School of Medicine
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Guerin, Andrea
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eng
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Medical Education , Pandemic , Clerkship
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The final two years of the undergraduate medical program at Queen’s University School of Medicine are delivered in the clinical environment. Therefore, the global pandemic presented a novel challenge which required significant curricular adaptations. In 2020 and beyond, the medical literature exploded with new innovations in response to the pandemic. However, these articles illuminate a single innovation or trend.
Using a novel research method called Outcome Harvesting (Wilson-Grau, 2019) and a social constructivist lens, the impact of the pandemic on clerkship at Queen’s University during the period from September 2019 to September 2020 was explored. Three questions were posed:
(1) what changes were made in the third-year clerkship curriculum at Queen’s University School of Medicine during the pandemic? (2) in what ways did the pandemic context influence those changes? (3) what were some consequences of those curricular changes?
Through this research, 60 distinct outcomes (changes in behaviour(s), relationship(s), action(s), activity, policy, or practice) (Wilson-Grau, 2019), organized into nine larger, combined outcomes were found. Some of these outcomes were reflected in the literature, while others were unique to Queen’s University School of Medicine. Five outcomes of particular interest were selected and explored further.
This is the first study to look at the impact of the pandemic on the entire clinical clerkship curriculum and one of only a few studies using this methodology in medical education. Results will hopefully inform future research on the use of this methodology in medical education. Individual outcomes may be of use to Queen’s University School of Medicine and other schools in curricular decision making and accreditation processes.
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