Fighting COVID-19: Enabling Graduating Students to Start Internship Early at Their Own Medical School

Ann Intern Med. 2020 Jul 21;173(2):143-144. doi: 10.7326/M20-1262. Epub 2020 Apr 7.

Abstract

This perspective proposes one way to ensure enough doctors, nurses, and pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic: Enable graduating students to start internship early at their own medical school.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • Career Choice
  • Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
  • Education, Medical, Graduate*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Internship and Residency*
  • Male
  • Pandemics
  • Physicians / supply & distribution*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Schools, Medical / organization & administration*
  • United States / epidemiology
  • Young Adult