Med Schools Plan Early Graduations To Rush Students To COVID Frontlines
Source: TPM
On Wednesday night, the organization that accredits MD programs in the United States published guiding principles for early graduations “in the context of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic.”
The early graduations come as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has scrubbed the state looking for additional medical professionals to staff hospitals, including retired doctors and nurses, graduates of foreign medical schools and military medical professionals.
“They can work in an insurance company, a clinic, or whatever, but we want to enlist as many staff as we can, and as many back-up staff,” Cuomo said at a news conference Tuesday.
A spokesperson for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City told TPM Thursday that the school was reviewing a “tentative plan” to allow for early graduations.
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Drastic times call for drastic measures.
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or is that socialism? 
It's very brave of these students and retirees to serve their country in our time of need but they need the right tools to protect themselves.