Excerpt from the WHIO
Students at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine have started a program to aid health care providers in Dayton in response to the pandemic.
Physicians and healthcare workers are paired with medical students who babysit, walk dogs, run errands or assist with elder care.
Matthew Lovell and Ashley Brent, of the class of 2021, created the program and began working to assist those on the front lines in March.
“We felt that while we were not able to be in the hospitals or clinics at this time, that medical students could still contribute to work that is and will be done by the physicians on the front lines,” Lovell said in a written statement. “All of the medical students have been eager to get involved and help out their communities in any way that they can.”
The med students plan to begin working with the Department of Geriatrics to do video check-ins with patients and their families.
Lovell and Brent are volunteers themselves, but spend much of their time on program coordination, matching willing med students with physicians in need.
The two hold student council president and vice president positions, respectively.
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