An opportunity to experience medicine firsthand through the lives of frontline health care workers, patients, and researchers
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UNPRECEDENTED TIMES On behalf of our Stanford Clinical Science, Technology and Medicine Summer Internship, we wish to welcome to our Summer 2020 student cohort. Our successful Stanford summer internship program, now in it’s fourth year, has grown into one of the most popular and successful clinical summer internship opportunities at Stanford. We are excited that you will be joining our faculty from Stanford this summer to engage in this once-ina-lifetime opportunity to gain knowledge, skills and mentorship to foster your interest in compassionate careers in science, technology and medicine. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has created
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Clinical Science, Technology and Medicine Summer Internship
unprecedented circumstances for our society and educational system. The highly-contagious coronavirus has the potential to cause a widespread public health crisis unless drastic measures are undertaken.
nature of the pandemic, many leaders in academic medicine are faced with unprecedented decision regarding the very nature of education.
One of these adjustments is the need for social distancing, the consideration of isolating people from each other to prevent transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the infectious agent that causes COVID-19.
In the Stanford AIM Lab, we view this as an unprecedented opportunity to discover and explore how we at Stanford can adapt our world-class educational programs to the online world of distancelearning. For us, this world isn’t new: we’ve been engaged in online learning since 2006 when our lab was established at Stanford to innovate medical education. Over the past 14 years, we have created milestones in educational technology, including the first educational iPad application from the Stanford School of Medicine,
At Stanford, this means that the Dean of the University has closed the campus to students for the forseable future. Students at our peer institutions, such as the University of California system and Harvard Medical School will not return to classes this summer or fall. Due to the
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