In a first ever CDA podcast crossover, Dermalogues host Kerri Purdy is Kirk Barber's guest on JCMS Author Interviews. They discuss the article she co-authored in the July/August edition of the Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery: Medical Education and Resident Dermatology Education in Canada During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kirk and Kerri talk about the challenges the pandemic created in medical education, the innovations used to overcome them and why some of those new virtual ways of communicating and educating will carry on into the future.

Dr Kerri Purdy is host of "Dermalogues," the popular CDA residents podcast. She is also an assistant professor and division head of Dermatology at Dalhousie University and a past President of the CDA.

Her co-authors on this article are: Malika Ladha, Harvey Lui, Julia Carroll, Philip Doiron, Carly Kirshen and Aaron Wong.

You can find the article discussed in today's episode at the JCMS website on the link below. It is available free for three weeks after this interview is posted:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1203475421993783

JCMS Author Interviews is produced by David McGuffin of Explore Podcast Productions in Ottawa.

Our theme music was composed by Lee Rosevere.