How COVID Shook Up Med School (plus Zach Slavitt)

For In the Bubble's one-year anniversary episode, Dr. Bob catches up with the person who came up with the idea for the show: Zach Slavitt. Then, it’s a conversation about how COVID-19 disrupted the education of doctors and medical students. Bob is joined by three people in different stages of their medical careers at UCSF: medical student (and Bob's daughter) Zoë Lyon, resident Jack Penner, and Vice Dean for Education Catherine Lucey. They discuss what changed when COVID hit San Francisco, how it affected patients, and how the experience steered Jack in a new professional direction.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

Listen to the first-ever episode of In the Bubble with guest Mark Cuban: https://omny.fm/shows/in-the-bubble-with-andy-slavitt/find-the-helpers-with-mark-cuban 

Learn more about how UCSF medical students like Zoë helped patients connect with loved ones during COVID-19: https://sfghf.org/covid19/virtual-connection-during-covid-19/ 

Read Catherine Lucey’s article on how COVID-19 transformed medical education: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2770075 

Check out this article about what COVID-19 taught us about telemedicine: https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-covid-19-taught-us-about-telemedicine-11616932803

Learn more about Dr. Bob Wachter and the UCSF Department of Medicine here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/ 

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