they said they would get paid.
Do it, let's do some COVID swabbing together!
I'd do it if they would pay to fly me out. Not sure if I would be any use for them tho.
You have to fill in the extra information...just click on that section and it will ask if you are boarded, etc. Super easy, since the answer to everything is 'No'.
More like depriving the residents of PPE. Oh how the tables have turned.
The article doesn't specifically mention it but if you go to the actual link, they said they are recruiting medical students too. California Health Corps
www.latimes.com
I'm already going to be exposed. In a few months, I will be working in a hospital in the heart of CA's outbreak. I will be exposed, especially if the problem is dire enough that they actually resort to recruiting medical students (which I doubt they'll get to). The difference is between that happening in April, with me maybe helping a few folks, and then getting my illness/quarantine out of the way prior to starting official intern year, and that happening in June, with me relying on good evals from my first 3mo of intern year to reapply for a categorical spot.
This is what i dont get about the but medical students are vectors crowd. There is literal community spread in 50% of the states. This is not a contained outbreak, this is everywhere.
did you only land a prelim spot? Thats crazy.
Except now it's out of control and there's no PPE. And it's been shown that you can get re-infected. In 3 months it will probably be a little more tame and they'll have PPE then. And they'd probably be paying you like $16/hr like New York is anyway, or slightly more. Not nearly enough to justify the risk.
Yup. Super fun times.
I haven't seen any evidence that the reinfection is as serious as the original. Most of what I've seen is just positive tests again, maybe a mild fever. Am I missing some big cases? (Actual question, I'm not as up on the research/news as I could be, because so much of it seems to be BS and I don't like fretting over things I can't control anyway).
could you please link the literature on this.
This was the best summary I'd seen thus far. Not enough to sway my decision, frankly.
Did you have to list a california address?
Take all of that with a grain of salt. There were instances where it was a presumed covid diagnosis and people got reinfected afterwards with positive testing , but lacked positive testing before.
Yes, but I'm from CA (never changed my state residency) and living in CA right now during the clinical suspension.
I don't get it, my alternative is to make $0, how does it devalue my MD to work a few months at $15/hour? That's what lots of med students make/receive as stipend for their research years during med school.
While sitting back reinforces the assumption that doctors are nothing but self serving money hungry folks.
Between the remaining year of clerkships and then intern year, I am essentially guaranteed to get COVID. Getting it now is actually preferable to then. Plus for me as a healthy young 20-something with no health concerns, I'm 99% either asymptomatic or a mild flu.
No one is forcing you to go. Thats the thing tho, we have zero marketable skills without a license. So your argument about greedy MBAs and midlevels makes zero sense. If i was boarded and they were offering me 15 dollars an hour you could make that argument. Plus people have the ability to make a risk reward analysis. Some people run towards a disaster to help and others sit back and ask what is in it for me. No moral judgement here.
50k per month would be life changing right about now. Or ever, really. That's a LOT.
...yet
Someone has to be out there swabbing, triaging etc. I'm sure they'd rather risk 1 young healthy person getting COVID sooner, than go without an essential labor role filled. Flattening the curve isn't supposed to be to such a degree that it understaffs the healthcare system.
There are sources currently citing that California seems to be doing a better job at delaying the spread of COVID, so it is quite likely we won't get to this point.
