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Handling the MSPE for Clerkships/Courses Completed during COVID-19

  • 1.  Handling the MSPE for Clerkships/Courses Completed during COVID-19

    Posted 03-26-2020 09:31:00 PM
    Dear All,
    I am reading so many things these days so not sure where I first saw this question posed, but I thought I would pose again here and apologize if already discussed:

    For schools who are planning to modify their clerkships as a result of limiting direct patient contact for a period of time, do you plan to make any notations on the MSPE to indicate clerkships differently if they were completed during the COVID-19 timeframe? For example, if the ability to take shelf exams or receive enough evaluations were impacted, potentially affecting the ability to honor in a course, will you document as such? I thought I also saw somewhere a school considering adding a transcript notation for courses taken during these months too?

    I recognize this is an issue impacting all of us and that residency programs may understand, but am also wondering if a  consensus has been found on approaching this, if at all.

    Thank you!
    Julie

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    Julie Youm, PhD
    Assistant Dean, Education Compliance and Quality; Director, Educational Technology
    University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
    jyoum@uci.edu
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