id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-349014-zkm2mph9 Wang, Jessie J. COVID-19: novel pandemic, novel generation of medical students 2020-06-02 .txt text/plain 1018 58 41 Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) allows student involvement in patient care in locales with critical healthcare workforce shortage, 4 and medical schools in several states have offered students the option to graduate early and join the frontlines. Harnessing medical students in the fight against COVID-19 has the advantage, while addressing public health needs, of providing a learning environment with authentic patient experiences for students. 8, 9 There is no better time than now to bridge the gap between medical education and the demands for telemedicine services, both to support virtual patient care during the pandemic, as one US institution is already doing, 10 and looking beyond to an increasingly technology-driven healthcare landscape. Now is the time to instate novel educational experiences to equip this generation of medical students for their future as physicians, beyond the pandemic. ./cache/cord-349014-zkm2mph9.txt ./txt/cord-349014-zkm2mph9.txt