Disruption of the medical curriculum in a developing country: The need for medical students to be stronger than ever
Being a medical student from a low to moderate income country comes with its challenges particularly in moments where the world is facing with an uncharted territory; the COVID-19 pandemic. With no face to face interactions with lecturers, halt of clinical postings and uncertainty of when exams will...
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| description | Being a medical student from a low to moderate income country comes with its challenges particularly in moments where the world is facing with an uncharted territory; the COVID-19 pandemic. With no face to face interactions with lecturers, halt of clinical postings and uncertainty of when exams will be held, final year medical students are facing an unprecedented situation. Being a final year student, this personal view is aimed at describing the current situation of medical students in Mauritius, the numerous challenges that are being encountered and the coping strategies being adopted. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b8c813ebb986400087eceb40c3fb2c992022-12-21T21:14:50ZengF1000 Research LtdMedEdPublish2312-79962020-09-0191Disruption of the medical curriculum in a developing country: The need for medical students to be stronger than everWafaa Mowlabaccus0Adnaan Mowlabaccus1University of MauritiusUniversity of MauritiusBeing a medical student from a low to moderate income country comes with its challenges particularly in moments where the world is facing with an uncharted territory; the COVID-19 pandemic. With no face to face interactions with lecturers, halt of clinical postings and uncertainty of when exams will be held, final year medical students are facing an unprecedented situation. Being a final year student, this personal view is aimed at describing the current situation of medical students in Mauritius, the numerous challenges that are being encountered and the coping strategies being adopted.https://www.mededpublish.org/Manuscripts/3264final year medical studentsCOVID-19developing country |
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| title | Disruption of the medical curriculum in a developing country: The need for medical students to be stronger than ever |
| title_full | Disruption of the medical curriculum in a developing country: The need for medical students to be stronger than ever |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Disruption of the medical curriculum in a developing country: The need for medical students to be stronger than ever |
| title_short | Disruption of the medical curriculum in a developing country: The need for medical students to be stronger than ever |
| title_sort | disruption of the medical curriculum in a developing country the need for medical students to be stronger than ever |
| topic | final year medical students COVID-19 developing country |
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