Sarah Soo-Hoo and David Edelman - April 22, 2020

Sarah Soo-Hoo, MD, and David Edelman, "Responding to health system needs: Developing and deploying a COVID-19 student service corps"

The COVID-19 Student Service Corps is a student-faculty collaboration that supports the health care system, patients, and the community through an interprofessional model and student service projects. It launched on March 18thand the group designed the organizational structure so that it could be replicated at other institutions. Indeed, the structure has been shared with 30 global institutions and there are 6 other US service corps at the University of Washington, UVA, UNC, University of Richmond, University of Arizona, and George Mason University. At Columbia, over 1600 students from 12 schools have signed-up to volunteer for 20 ongoing projects in three areas: 1) patient/system facing (e.g., telemedicine, PPE task force, community hotline etc.); 2) staff and student facing (e.g., information services, medical education, mental health & wellbeing, hero meals etc.); and 3) community connections (e.g., virtual tutoring, child abuse prevention, meal support). For more information, visit http://www.ps.columbia.edu/cssc