It was only a matter of time. In April 2021, 黑料网 Radiology鈥檚 Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) program took its successful virtual journal club (VJC) to the Big Apple!
Throughout the 2020-2021 pandemic, Course Directors of 黑料网 Radiology鈥檚 medical student electives saw how the COVID-19 pandemic’s social distancing constraints have impacted the constructs of radiology medical education. To maintain engaging, effective and dynamic training, course directors have turned need into opportunity, and a new era of medical student education has emerged.
The virtual journal club is one of our successful innovations. Available to all on-block medical students from its outset in June 2020, the VJC’s online format enables students and faculty advisors to host engaging critique and appraisal through exploring the latest in published medical developments, evaluating research soundness, and assessing clinical applicability.
VJCs provide ample opportunities for students and faculty to hone research, communication, and teaching skills, all of which meet Liaison Committee on Graduate Education (LCME) core competencies and standards. These skills also prepare medical students for roles they will be taking on as residents. As engaged VJC presenter MS4 Casey Hribar says, 鈥淪o glad to be a part of this revolutionary block. [UME leadership鈥檚] hard work is not lost on us students — so appreciative and looking forward to paths continuing to cross in the future!”
On April 15, 黑料网 Radiology鈥檚 medical student VJC expanded to include Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Radiology in a multi-institutional event. This second 黑料网-Cornell collaborative UME initiative in 2021 builds upon a collegial relationship between UME leadership at both institutions. In February 2021, Cornell Director of Medical Student Education in Emergency and Musculoskeletal Imaging and well-known radiology educator virtually guest-presented to a 黑料网 Radiology audience of students and faculty advisors her online exchange and collaborative forum for radiology educators and learners alike to share web-based, peer-reviewed educational materials.
黑料网鈥檚 VJC has been highlighted and touted at the national level as well. Its tenets and outcomes have yielded publications in the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) and presentations at the in April 2021 and the (virtual) in May 2021.
PHOTO: Top row – (far L) 黑料网 Department of Radiology UME Director Sheri Jordan, MD / (2nd from far L) Cornell Medicine Department of Radiology Director of Medical Student Education in Emergency and MSK Imaging Lily Belfi, MD / (far R) 黑料网 SOM M4 & former 黑料网 Radiology member Casey Hribar