The Impact of COVID-19 on Academic Medicine with Steve Garfin - Compassion Forum

During a pandemic, the strain on healthcare professionals extends beyond the hours they see patients. Steven Garfin, MD, orthopedic surgeon and dean of the UC San Diego School of medicine, joins William Mobley, MD, PhD to discuss how COVID-19 has changed the day to day lives of those on the front line as well as the perspective of future medical students. [Show ID: 35863]

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[PsychoSocialCreation]

Everyone stay at home! Keep people safe! It’s all about working together!

[lits]

Excellent and very honest. Very grateful for sharing this with us.

[timothybucky]

we have lost more people to this then we did to all of vietnam, all those years of fighting a war.

coping resources such as optimism, personal control or mastery, and a positive sense of self or high self-esteem, as well as high levels of social support, promote effective coping and have direct effects on mental and physical health.

[RalphDratman]

"Building the airplane as we fly it" -- there's an unsettling metaphor. But I think it describes the current remote-learning period better than the 
restarting-classes-on-campus phase. If all the participants are physically present, the airplane can't really fall out of the sky. 
But remote learning for medical school? That is a terra incognita indeed.