Coronavirus: Rutgers to graduate medical students early to help at area hospitals

[TexasTowelie]

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School is joining universities in Boston and New York in expediting the graduation of its students so they can join the front-line fight against coronavirus in hospitals, which are facing a shortage of equipment and manpower as they work to deal with an escalating number of patients.

Some 192 graduates of the state medical school will be eligible to begin residencies at hospitals in the coming weeks, providing a backstop for healthcare workers swamped by the pandemic.

Typically, the students would have finished their coursework in April, followed by graduation in May.

That will be cut short to get them on board at critical care centers. There will be 154 who graduate on April 10, followed by another 38 on April 21.

Read more: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2020/03/28/coronavirus-rutgers-graduates-med-students-early-bolster-hospitals/2934592001/

[RockRaven]

1. Reminds me of the latter part of WWI when the only new troops France, Germany, etc could

scrounge up were that year's newly age-eligible conscription class.

[sheshe2]

2. They did the same in Italy.

51 of their doctors are dead.

I don't envy the new grads. It is going to be hell. However I applaud each and everyone of them for their courage and service.