The Pulse of the COM COMmunity
CAMPUS CIRCULATION
By Justin Doroshenko, COM '21
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the US and the world in April of 2020, scientific and medical journals were overwhelmed with research and articles about SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-19. Keeping up with the rapidly emerging information about the virus was incredibly difficult for healthcare workers, researchers, and scientists. In response, the COVID-19 Literature Surveillance Team (LST), a group of medical students, researchers, and physicians from around the world, was formed to read the research, grade the level of evidence, and share the “bottom line, up front” (BLUF) with providers in the form of a daily report, website, and weekly podcast.
Over the past year, several medical students from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine have been part of the COVID-19 LST in a variety of roles. Dean Cataldo, OMS-IV, Casey-John Keyes, OMS-II, Jonathan Baker, OMS-IV, Ellen Reidy,