Virtual Clinical Shadowing for Pre-Clinical Medical Students in an Emergency Medicine-Based Leadership Course.

The COVID-19 pandemic limited pre-clinical medical students from participating in traditional clinical in-person shadowing. Rather than eliminating clinical shadowing from an established leadership course, we describe the experience of six pre-clinical medical students shadowing physician preceptors remotely through virtual platforms. Six pre-clinical medical students enrolled in 2020's Weill Cornell Medicine's Healthcare Leadership and Management Scholars Program were prepared with training materials for on-camera patient care.

Advanced Communication and Examination Skills in Telemedicine: A Structured Simulation-Based Course for Medical Students.

Introduction: Telemedicine has become part of mainstream medical practice. High quality virtual care is a skill that will be required of many physicians. Skills required for effective evaluation and communication during a video encounter differ from skills required at bedside, yet few rubrics for educational content and student performance evaluation in telemedicine training have been developed.