Students Return to Clinical Experiences Across Northeast Ohio
June 2, 2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in mid-March, health care education had to readjust.
Instead of completing a final round of clinical rotations in hospitals, fourth-year Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Medicine students turned to COVID-themed electives, such as “Intensive Care Medicine and ICU Resources in Pandemics,” taught by the University’s president, John T. Langell, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., and teaming up with local health departments to help with contact tracing.
Though it will take some rearranging of clinical experiences for future classes, Elisabeth Young, M.D. (’85), vice president for health affairs and dean of the College of Medicine, tells Crain’s Cleveland Business that she is confident in and committed to the education NEOMED students are receiving.
“We are going to graduate a class that is well prepared, maybe better prepared for a world that’s changed. And so I think what COVID has done is it has tested our ability to be innovative, creative and not stuck in a box,” said Dean Young.