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Smart glasses and video conferencing provide valuable medical student clinical exposure during COVID‐19
Author(s) -
Baker Jeffery,
Schultz Melissa,
Huecker Martin,
Shreffler Jacob,
Mallory Mary Nan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
aem education and training
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.49
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2472-5390
DOI - 10.1002/aet2.10571
Subject(s) - covid-19 , videoconferencing , medical education , pandemic , telemedicine , emergency department , teleconference , medicine , medical emergency , psychology , multimedia , computer science , nursing , health care , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , virology , pathology , economics , economic growth
Background Responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic impose significant limitations on clinical education in emergency medicine. Methods An emergency physician with smart glasses technology (SGT) was deployed into our emergency department (ED) to identify, enable, and curate a remote ED clinical learning experience for preclinical medical students in lieu of onsite shadowing. Students were assigned to one of four (2‐h) sessions in May or June 2020. Results All 22 students participated remotely and responded to postrotation surveys. Feedback showed enthusiastic acceptance by instructors and students. Difficulty with technology was minimal. All students “strongly agreed” that they would participate in future sessions. Conclusions This SGT instructional method represents a feasible and effective strategy to expose preclinical medical students to clinical medicine in the ED.