Harvard medical students created a free curriculum to give their peers and others a physician’s-eye view of the pandemic
Want to think about COVID-19 like a doctor? Gary Stix writes in Scientific American that students studying to become physicians were sent home as the COVID-19 pandemic worsened. Just as many of them were about to begin new medical careers, they found themselves on the sidelines during the most significant health crisis in their lifetime.
That time off has not been passed binge-watching Tiger King, however. Some students have volunteered to staff coronavirus hotlines or to organize food deliveries. And one group of 30 Harvard Medical School students took a different—and extremely ambitious—approach: during the week of March 15, they worked day and night for 72 hours to devise, from scratch, a new university curriculum focused on COVID-19. The team revealed its offering to the world on “Match Day” (March 20)—when soon-to-be graduates typically learn where they will become residents.
If you’ve had enough of the cable news bulletins and want to engage in a bit of social distance learning, you can access the Medical Student COVID-19 Curriculum here. The information is being updated every Friday.