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cord-329224-t45bedot	Byrnes, Yasmeen M.	Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical student career perceptions: a national survey study	2020-07-24		.txt	text/plain	4048	200	52	BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting cancellation of medical student clinical rotations pose unique challenges to students' educations, the impact of which has not yet been explored. CONCLUSIONS: Our study found that about one-fifth of surveyed medical students currently believe that the COVID-19 pandemic will affect their choice of specialty, with many of these citing concerns that they cannot explore specialties or obtain recommendation letters. Although there are some existing anecdotal commentaries describing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical education [5, [18] [19] [20] [21] , studies describing virtual curriculum development [5] [6] [7] [8] , and reports of medical student mobilization in response to the pandemic [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] , to our knowledge no data yet exists describing the current impact on medical students' academic lives. This study serves as an early snapshot into medical students' perspectives on their education and careers at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is in full force and clinical rotations remain cancelled.	./cache/cord-329224-t45bedot.txt	./txt/cord-329224-t45bedot.txt