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Contribution and dilemmas of Medical undergraduate students in combating disease outbreaks: COVID 19 and previous outbreaks

COVID 19 has brought several challenges for each individual, changing the world’s perception of health-care professionals. People are hailing health-care professionals as heroes, worthy of praise and gratitude. However, the pandemic has overburdened the health-care system. In this situation, the und...

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Autores principales: Pant, Jayanti, Pant, Mahendra Kumar, Naithani, Manisha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7535110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33061736
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S265558
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description COVID 19 has brought several challenges for each individual, changing the world’s perception of health-care professionals. People are hailing health-care professionals as heroes, worthy of praise and gratitude. However, the pandemic has overburdened the health-care system. In this situation, the undergraduate medical students are being used as a crucial part of the health-care team in various ways. Involvement of medical undergraduates in situations of natural disaster is not new. In fact, a review of history of previous natural disasters reveals that this has been normal every time health systems have been overburdened. In the present situation of COVID 19, these students have a crucial role to play in helping frontline workers combat the crisis. Though the students would like to render their services, they are in a state of dilemma, as their roles are not defined clearly and their training to combat the pandemic is inadequate, as it was in previous outbreaks. This highlights a need to introduce module-based training for medical graduates to contribute effectively in combating future outbreaks.
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spelling pubmed-75351102020-10-14 Contribution and dilemmas of Medical undergraduate students in combating disease outbreaks: COVID 19 and previous outbreaks Pant, Jayanti Pant, Mahendra Kumar Naithani, Manisha Adv Med Educ Pract Review COVID 19 has brought several challenges for each individual, changing the world’s perception of health-care professionals. People are hailing health-care professionals as heroes, worthy of praise and gratitude. However, the pandemic has overburdened the health-care system. In this situation, the undergraduate medical students are being used as a crucial part of the health-care team in various ways. Involvement of medical undergraduates in situations of natural disaster is not new. In fact, a review of history of previous natural disasters reveals that this has been normal every time health systems have been overburdened. In the present situation of COVID 19, these students have a crucial role to play in helping frontline workers combat the crisis. Though the students would like to render their services, they are in a state of dilemma, as their roles are not defined clearly and their training to combat the pandemic is inadequate, as it was in previous outbreaks. This highlights a need to introduce module-based training for medical graduates to contribute effectively in combating future outbreaks. Dove 2020-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7535110/ /pubmed/33061736 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S265558 Text en © 2020 Pant et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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