How medical education can help in a COVID‐19 crisis

Abstract

I am recovering from a state of shock at what is happening with the COVID‐19 crisis and how clinical education is undergoing rapid change. Here, I reflect on how medical educators can help in this crisis. As a clinical academic (teaching and research), I have responsibility for faculty development and interprofessional learning at a medical school in a research‐intensive university in Australia. I am one of the leadership group delivering the first year of a new graduate‐entry Doctor of Medicine (MD) curriculum, whilst also continuing with the previous MD programme. The university has recently completed a major organisational restructure, bringing together medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and allied health to form one comprehensive faculty.