The Surgical Clerkship in the COVID Era: A Natural Language Processing and Thematic Analysis.

Journal: The Journal of surgical research
Published Date:

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Responses to COVID-19 within medical education prompted significant changes to the surgical clerkship. We analyzed the changes in medical student end of course feedback before and after the COVID-19 outbreak.

Authors

  • Thomas Clark Howell
    Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina. Electronic address: clark.howell@duke.edu.
  • Joseph M Ladowski
    Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
  • Amanda Nash
    Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
  • Kristen E Rhodin
    Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
  • Elisabeth T Tracy
    Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
  • John Migaly
    Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
  • Diane Bloom
    Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
  • Cory J Vatsaas
    Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.