The Ann Arbor-based runner put her master’s degree in epidemiology and public health to immediate use when the coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
Finn, 25, was one of 10 med students who spent about two weeks in March designing a course called COVID-19 Pandemic Elective, which second- and third-year medical students are now taking virtually at the University of Michigan.
The Ann Arbor-based runner, who is finishing her first year at the University of Michigan Medical School, put her master’s degree in epidemiology and public health to immediate use when thewas declared a global pandemic. With school work moved online in response to the outbreak, Finn was able to dedicate more hours to research and create the framework for the class.
“It felt like a duty as someone who has studied public health and is interested in education and becoming a physician and caring for patients,” Finn toldMichigan Athletics , the course discusses the importance of public health and epidemiology in the practice of medicine. The virtual lectures cover five topics—pandemics in the world, physician response, communication and mental health in a pandemic, epidemiology, and evidence-based medicine.
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