Lessons learnt from medical students’ experiences of volunteering in the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Editor – The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the NHS to near-breaking point. Faced with the significantly increased workload, many hospital trusts across the UK decided to start a partnership with their affiliated medical school to allow medical students to volunteer in designated roles within the NHS.1 We conducted a retrospective electronic survey of second- and third-year students at a UK graduate entry medical school (Warwick Medical School) who had volunteered in the NHS during the first …