The Volunteers in Research programme: Supporting COVID-19 research and improving medical training in parallel
The Volunteers in Research programme: Supporting COVID-19 research and improving medical training in parallel
COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on society, global healthcare and daily life. The redeployment of research staff to patient-facing roles in the NHS left a depleted workforce to deliver critical urgent public health research (UPHR). We aimed to support UPHR studies and medical student training by developing and implementing a medical student Volunteers in Research programme. We further sought to gain insights about medical students' perceptions of this programme. We collected prospective data and conducted a retrospective survey as part of a service evaluation to assess the value of this clinical research experience to students, as well as motivators and barriers to taking part. The Volunteers in Research programme successfully supported UPHR studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. We generated important insights to help aid the wider implementation of this programme nationally to support essential research and medical student education.
COVID-19, Humans, Pandemics, Prospective Studies, Retrospective Studies, SARS-CoV-2, Students, Medical, Volunteers
182-188
McKinnon, Tamsin
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Watson, Alastair
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Richards, Liam
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Sears, Jackie
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Brookes, Matthew J.
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Green, Christopher A.
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17 May 2021
McKinnon, Tamsin
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Watson, Alastair
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Richards, Liam
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Sears, Jackie
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Brookes, Matthew J.
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Green, Christopher A.
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McKinnon, Tamsin, Watson, Alastair, Richards, Liam, Sears, Jackie, Brookes, Matthew J. and Green, Christopher A.
(2021)
The Volunteers in Research programme: Supporting COVID-19 research and improving medical training in parallel.
Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 21 (3), .
(doi:10.7861/CLINMED.2020-1072).
Abstract
COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on society, global healthcare and daily life. The redeployment of research staff to patient-facing roles in the NHS left a depleted workforce to deliver critical urgent public health research (UPHR). We aimed to support UPHR studies and medical student training by developing and implementing a medical student Volunteers in Research programme. We further sought to gain insights about medical students' perceptions of this programme. We collected prospective data and conducted a retrospective survey as part of a service evaluation to assess the value of this clinical research experience to students, as well as motivators and barriers to taking part. The Volunteers in Research programme successfully supported UPHR studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. We generated important insights to help aid the wider implementation of this programme nationally to support essential research and medical student education.
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Published date: 17 May 2021
Keywords:
COVID-19, Humans, Pandemics, Prospective Studies, Retrospective Studies, SARS-CoV-2, Students, Medical, Volunteers
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Local EPrints ID: 451165
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/451165
ISSN: 1470-2118
PURE UUID: 79875942-36a7-4d9b-8845-940e6aba13fd
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Tamsin McKinnon
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Alastair Watson
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Liam Richards
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Jackie Sears
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Matthew J. Brookes
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Christopher A. Green
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