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Rapid Mobilization of Medical Student Volunteers to Administer Vaccines During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In December 2020, the first COVID-19 vaccines were approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and vaccination efforts rapidly launched across the country. Concurrently, New York City experienced an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations. This created an immediate need to ino...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8755923/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036568 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23821205211073092 |
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author | Sinclair, Taneisha Bell, Brett I. Perez, Karol Klyde, Daniel Veith, Mitchell Weinstock, Rachel Cassese, Todd Nosanchuk, Joshua D. |
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description | In December 2020, the first COVID-19 vaccines were approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and vaccination efforts rapidly launched across the country. Concurrently, New York City experienced an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations. This created an immediate need to inoculate frontline workers in a strained health system that lacked sufficient personnel to meet the demand. In response, New York State permitted medical students with appropriate clinical experience to administer vaccinations. Albert Einstein College of Medicine students rapidly stepped in to administer vaccines and serve as clinic navigators. Student leaders at Einstein collaborated with Montefiore Medical Center to rapidly implement a student vaccination initiative. Medical students underwent virtual and on-site training regarding COVID-19 vaccines and their administration. In January 2021, students began to staff vaccine clinics across the Bronx. By July 2021, 291 out of 830 eligible medical and Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) students (35.1%) had volunteered >2400 h. Of the 291 volunteers, 77 (26.5%) worked as vaccinators and administered approximately 2929 COVID-19 vaccines from January to May 2021. We demonstrate success using the concept of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in the context of training medical students in a specific clinical skill. Our framework resulted in the administration of approximately 2929 COVID-19 vaccines from January to May 2021. The authors believe that this framework can be implemented at peer institutions to alleviate the burden on hospital systems and outpatient clinics vaccinating their communities against COVID-19, or to meet future clinical needs. |
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spelling | pubmed-87559232022-01-14 Rapid Mobilization of Medical Student Volunteers to Administer Vaccines During the COVID-19 Pandemic Sinclair, Taneisha Bell, Brett I. Perez, Karol Klyde, Daniel Veith, Mitchell Weinstock, Rachel Cassese, Todd Nosanchuk, Joshua D. J Med Educ Curric Dev Original Research In December 2020, the first COVID-19 vaccines were approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and vaccination efforts rapidly launched across the country. Concurrently, New York City experienced an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations. This created an immediate need to inoculate frontline workers in a strained health system that lacked sufficient personnel to meet the demand. In response, New York State permitted medical students with appropriate clinical experience to administer vaccinations. Albert Einstein College of Medicine students rapidly stepped in to administer vaccines and serve as clinic navigators. Student leaders at Einstein collaborated with Montefiore Medical Center to rapidly implement a student vaccination initiative. Medical students underwent virtual and on-site training regarding COVID-19 vaccines and their administration. In January 2021, students began to staff vaccine clinics across the Bronx. By July 2021, 291 out of 830 eligible medical and Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) students (35.1%) had volunteered >2400 h. Of the 291 volunteers, 77 (26.5%) worked as vaccinators and administered approximately 2929 COVID-19 vaccines from January to May 2021. We demonstrate success using the concept of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in the context of training medical students in a specific clinical skill. Our framework resulted in the administration of approximately 2929 COVID-19 vaccines from January to May 2021. The authors believe that this framework can be implemented at peer institutions to alleviate the burden on hospital systems and outpatient clinics vaccinating their communities against COVID-19, or to meet future clinical needs. SAGE Publications 2022-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8755923/ /pubmed/35036568 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23821205211073092 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 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 page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Sinclair, Taneisha Bell, Brett I. Perez, Karol Klyde, Daniel Veith, Mitchell Weinstock, Rachel Cassese, Todd Nosanchuk, Joshua D. Rapid Mobilization of Medical Student Volunteers to Administer Vaccines During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Rapid Mobilization of Medical Student Volunteers to Administer Vaccines During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Rapid Mobilization of Medical Student Volunteers to Administer Vaccines During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Rapid Mobilization of Medical Student Volunteers to Administer Vaccines During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Rapid Mobilization of Medical Student Volunteers to Administer Vaccines During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Rapid Mobilization of Medical Student Volunteers to Administer Vaccines During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | rapid mobilization of medical student volunteers to administer vaccines during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8755923/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036568 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23821205211073092 |
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