Table 1. Institutional actions of the UNAM School of Medicine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Actions focused on the UNAM School of Medicine Community | |
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Academic | • A full digital coaching and learning program to prepare students and teachers for the new online activities and exams.
• Virtual classrooms and academic consultancies were set up to reinforce the contents of each website of the academic departments. • Medical students who were attending hospitals and clinics were sent home. Remote learning by online workshops for students of the third, fourth and fifth grade during their confinement at home. All exams and evaluations were implemented online. • Creation of the “MediTIC” digital platform. |
Communication | • A web page exclusively developed to provide information on COVID-19.
• Reinforced communication through official social networks (Facebook, Twitter, TikTok), and a new institutional instant messaging service (Telegram) to communicate important news. • Community monitoring through a health survey. • Periodic online publications on COVID-19 topics (newsletters, magazines, etc). |
General wellness | • Online yoga, zumba, music and mediation classes, art workshops, and many other cultural activities to support our community.
• Special online activities to promote mental health. |
Administrative | • Provide online academic-administrative services to its educational population (25,000 undergraduate and graduate students).
• Adaptation for the remote extraction of databases from the School computer servers. • Financial administration operations were made remotely. • Implementation of “work at home”: effective and organized. |
Actions focused on the general population | |
Medical care | • “Call and chat center” to answer questions and provide medical guidance on COVID-19 for the general population.
• Diagnostic Center for COVID-19 at Mexico City International Airport. • Participation in the creation of the Temporary Hospital Unit (840 beds) in the Citi-Banamex Congress Center facilities in Mexico City, in collaboration with many Altruistic Foundations. • Development of mathematical and epidemiological models and several clinical research protocols on COVID-19. |
Teaching and Outreach | • Webinars for physicians and general population on COVID-19 topics.
• Press conferences. • Digital educational programs in collaboration with the BBVA Mexico Foundation and the Technological of Monterrey School of Medicine and Health Sciences. • Participation in webinars organized by the Union of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean (UDUAL) and other universities. |
Altruistic | • A donation campaign (with the UNAM Foundation) to obtain protection kits for doctors in training at the postgraduate level in hospital centers with COVID-19 patients.
• Assessment to the home food delivery application “Rappi” and other allies for nutritional aspects for the philanthropic initiative “a sack” to provide food for vulnerable families. |