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2021 Conference: COVID-19 and the Impact on Medical and Nursing Education

Faculty, learners, and health professions education leaders gathered to examine lessons learned during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The resulting recommendations called for advancing competency-based and interprofessional education, adopting more holistic admissions practices, and strengthening preparedness for future crises that may disrupt health professions training.

COVID-19 and the Impact on Medical and Nursing Education

At this conference, faculty, learners, leaders, and other experts in HPE shared their experiences from the first year of the pandemic and identified key lessons to be prioritized going forward. The consensus recommendations, published in Academic Medicine, call for a wide variety of action steps—from expediting the implementation of competency-based, interprofessional HPE to prioritizing institutional adoption of holistic review of HPE applicants to better preparing for the next crisis that may require redeployments of learners to unfamiliar roles.

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