20. COVID-19 and the Effects on Health Professions Students

Join Amanda Idusuyi and Athena Gutierrez, pharmacy students at the University of Connecticut, as they interview Cameron Rouleau, a student in Quinnipiac University’s Physician Assistant Program, Somachukwu Ozuzu, a nursing student at the University of Connecticut, and Leelakrishna Channa, a medical student at the University of Connecticut, on the impact of COVID-19 on their health professions education. Listen in to their reflections on how their classes and clinical rotations were impacted by the pandemic, what their initial impression of the COVID-19 vaccine was and their overall experience of being a student in medicine during the height of the pandemic. We hope after listening, you will take some time to do a reflection of your own on what you learned as a person being a student during the pandemic and other impacts it may have had on your family and/or community.    Please note that the recording of this episode took place in February 2022, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and provides a historical perspective of how it changed health professions students' lives during that time.