Coronavirus Resource Center

COVID-19 Resources for Health Educators

The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) continues to monitor guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state and local health agencies as it relates to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

To support the information needs of health professions educators, students, and other stakeholders, IPEC has developed this resource center to highlight key sources about COVID-19 found on the web. This page also includes details about new informational events and webinars.

Please check this page regularly for updates as IPEC will continue to provide more information as it becomes available.

iCollaborative: Clinical Teaching & Learning Experiences without Physical Patient Contact

This resource collection was built in response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s significant impact on the teaching and learning of health professionals. Designed by diverse educators, this working collection features clinical learning experiences, which can be readily used or easily adapted for specific, local settings, without the need for physical patient contact.

Click here to access the special collection or to add your submission.

Seeking your submissions

As healthcare professionals work on the front lines in our communities to face the COVID-19 pandemic, medical and health professions educators are responding with new learning experiences* that protect the learner, reduce the impact on the healthcare systems, and impede further spread of this novel virus.

We actively seek submissions of learning experiences, particularly those that support patient care, but do not involve direct patient contact. Once submitted, the resources will be included in a collection that will be free and widely available to the community of medical education. Submitted resources should describe structured learning experiences* that:

• Involve no physical contact with patients; and
• Have objectives focused on skills with clinical relevance in broad competency areas. 

Submissions may also include supplements such as: checklists, worksheets, lesson plans, cases, or lecture outlines. 

All submissions will be reviewed by the collection editor, Lisa Howley, PhD, Senior Director of Strategy Initiatives and Programs, to ensure criteria for inclusion are met.  If you have a learning experience you would like to submit to the collection but need additional support, please contact [email protected].

*Learning experience s are defined as any structured interaction, course, program, or other experience in which learning takes place, whether it occurs in traditional academic settings, nontraditional settings or includes traditional educational interactions or nontraditional interactions. These structured experiences are overseen by the institution and include the delineation and assessment of learning objectives.

All content in this collection reflects the views of the author(s). The IPEC or AAMC does not endorse specific products or methodologies unless clearly specified.

Press Releases

March 12, 2020, Alexandria, VA

Journal of Dental Research Publishes Guidelines Concerning COVID-19 from Researchers Based in Wuhan, China

The Journal of Dental Research, co-owned by the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) and the American Association of Dental Research (AADR), has published a paper written by researchers at Wuhan University School & Hospital of Stomatology with a number of recommendations for dental practitioners and dental students in light of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that was first reported in Wuhan, China. The virus that causes COVID-19 has been identified as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2). Click here to read the full press release.

To download the article, click here.

Note: This "Editor's Choice" article is free of access controls and may be downloaded for free. Please feel free to share this information.

Resources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• What's New - Latest Updates 
• Fact Sheet - What You Need to Know 
• How the Virus Spreads
• Symptoms
• Prevention & Treatment
• Testing
• State & Territorial Health Department Websites
• FAQs
• Travel
• Spring Break Travel
• Sign Up to Receive Weekly Email Updates from CDC
• Resources for Communities, Schools, and Businesses
• Resources for Healthcare Facilities
• Resources for Health Departments
• Communication Resources

World Health Organization (WHO)

• Situation Report
• Events as They Happen
• Advice for the Public: Myth busters

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Coronaviruses (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
  
• Coronavirus resources (National Library of Medicine)
• Coronavirus news and resources for global health researchers (Fogarty International Center)
• NIH clinical trial of remdesivir to treat COVID-19 begins (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Structural Biology Points Way to Coronavirus Vaccine (NIH Director's Blog)
• In the News: Coronavirus and “Alternative” Treatments (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health)

AACN Resources for Nurse Educators

AAMC Resources for the Academic Medicine Community

Public Health 101 and COVID-19 Resources
The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) has compiled a resource guide that lists related coursework offered by faculty from ASPPH member schools and programs, the CDC and the WHO. All trainings are available online and free of charge.

This will be an evolving resource and we encourage you to send information on additional trainings that address COVID-19 or provide an introduction to public health. Specifically, we are promoting short distance-based trainings (audio, video, podcast, webinar, modules, etc.) that are available at no-cost. Send a description and links to additional resources to [email protected]. More information can be found here.  

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