The need to accelerate COVID-19 education across medical schools.

Abstract

COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) is one of the most devastating viral outbreaks of modern history, with serious impacts on medical systems and clinical practice. Despite evidence that medical practice is slowly adapting to manage the considerable health effects of COVID-19, many teaching environments have not formally integrated COVID-19 into their curriculum.1-3 There is a need for COVID-19 specific education and curriculum development, and for the evolving scientific knowledge base to be shared globally across medical schools.4 This is because the magnitude of illness and risk for mortality associated with the novel COVID-19 virus requires that all students have the capacity to integrate COVID-19 learning into their clinical practice and reasoning, decision making, and patient management.1-3