A New Reality: Experiences from Canadian Clerkship Medical Students during COVID-19

Abstract

Medical students across the globe are being impacted by COVID-19. We are Canadian third year medical students who offer our experience as to how COVID-19 has impacted our medical training. We offer insight as to what medical students are doing despite being away from clinical duties. Questions regarding medical student responsibility during COVID-19 are raised. Our lived experience during this time will be beneficial to learn how the role of medical students during a pandemic evolve over time.

Keywords

• covid-19
• sars-cov-2
• medical education
• medical student
• canada