The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on the Medical School Application

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on the medical community. It is suspected that the pandemic will impact the medical school application process due to effects on standardized testing, performance measures, financial burdens, and interview strategies. It i...

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Autores principales: O’Connell, Rachel L, Kemp, Michael T, Alam, Hasan B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7346688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32685689
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120520940666
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description The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on the medical community. It is suspected that the pandemic will impact the medical school application process due to effects on standardized testing, performance measures, financial burdens, and interview strategies. It is important to consider these issues early to optimize success of future strategies and mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on the application cycle.
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spelling pubmed-73466882020-07-17 The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on the Medical School Application O’Connell, Rachel L Kemp, Michael T Alam, Hasan B J Med Educ Curric Dev Perspective The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on the medical community. It is suspected that the pandemic will impact the medical school application process due to effects on standardized testing, performance measures, financial burdens, and interview strategies. It is important to consider these issues early to optimize success of future strategies and mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on the application cycle. SAGE Publications 2020-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7346688/ /pubmed/32685689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120520940666 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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