Medical students as health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: We describe efforts at one tertiary university teaching hospital to rapidly recruit, train and deploy medical students into paid clinical support worker roles during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Recruitment was conducted by means of a single email outlining the emergent clinical situation and specifying role descriptions, terms and conditions, and temporary staff enrolment paperwork. Applicants could begin work provided they were in good standing and received departmental orientation.

A structured tool for delivering feedback on medical student clinical clerkings.

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No such thing as a free lunch?

Background: High-quality, out-of-classroom interactions between students and teachers help to develop communities of learning. In medicine, they contribute to the professionalisation of students.

Methods: We designed a novel student-faculty member lunch scheme for first-year medical students at our institution.