Medical Students: Valuable Assets in the COVID-19 Pandemic and beyond

During the 2020 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus, medical students have made a significant contribution to the continuation of health care. As a result of informal, narrative feedback from students and our evaluation of the activities amongst students, physicians and nurses, we plead for providing medical students with authentic, contextual and responsible tasks in health professions education in an early phase of their medical education. This will aid in the development of different, more generic competencies as opposed to the predominantly used "medical expert" domain.

Author(s): Matthijs H Bosveld* , Daan PC van Doorn* , Dewa Westerman and Walther NPC van Mook

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