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viewpoint: The Self-directed Medical Student Curriculum

First published: 23 November 2021

Current medical students accomplish the bulk of their learning outside the classroom, a practice likely solidified by adaptations to the COVID-19 pandemic. As others have noted, the reconfiguration of the preclerkship component of medical education is all but inevitable. In this Viewpoint, we highlight the growing role of medical students in shaping their own education and outline the measures required to ensure that the increase of medical student–directed learning remains aligned with the educational aims of the medical discipline.

eDITORIAL: COVID and a call to reinventing medical education

First published: 11 July 2020

Now as the COVID pandemic has caused a disastrous upheaval to our professions, business, families, educations, and essentially to all aspects of our lives, I realize more than ever before that when it comes to navigating myself in a pandemic such as this, mastering the skills I learned in my recent course—that is, the business and politics of medicine—are equally as important as the highly technical and complex cardiac surgery skills that I acquired long ago.

call to action: proposition to adapt medical education to meet needs of healthcare learners during COVID‐19

First published: 30 April 2020

With the ongoing coronavirus, journals and the media have extensively covered the impacts on doctors, nurses, physician assistants, and other healthcare workers. However, one group that has rarely been mentioned despite being significantly impacted is medical students and medical education overall. Cowritten by a medical student and an experienced cardiothoracic surgeon with a long career in academic medicine, paper explores the recent history of medical education and how it has led to issues now with distance‐based learning due to COVID‐19.