TABLE 2.

Overview of the Described Roles of Medical Students in Global Health Emergencies

Article ID	Method of Reporting Role	Number of Participants	Roles Reported	Difference in Years of Medical Study	Hypothetical or Real Emergency	Global Health Emergency Context
Abud (2015)16	Report of events	N/A	Raising awareness on social media	N/A	Real	Ebola outbreak
Ayaz Sabri (2006)18	Report of events	N/A	Acting as doctors	The article only describes final year students acting as doctors	Real	Earthquake
Berhane (2010)19	Questionnaire	375	Patient care, volunteer	Pre-clinical year students reported a lack of clinical skills more often as a reason not to participate in patient care	Hypothetical	H1N1 influenza pandemic
Boulos (2014)20	Simulation	N/A	Distributing medication	N/A	Hypothetical	Anthrax
Chen (Unpublished PDF)	Perspective	N/A	Triage, assist with life-saving procedures	N/A	Mixed	Mixed
Cohen (1991)21	Report of events	N/A	Raising awareness	N/A	Real	HIV epidemic
Eastwood (2006)22	Perspectives	N/A	Clinical assistance	In 1 medical school, it was decided that only final-year medical students should be able to provide care to patients with SARS	Mixed	SARS epidemic
Kaiser (2011)27	Perspective	N/A	Clinical assistance, helplines, triage	First-year students for helplines and vaccination; more clinically proficient students should perform more clinically relevant duties	Hypothetical	H1N1 outbreak
Katz (2002)28	Questionnaire	157	Crisis hotline, fundraising, volunteering with psychiatric disaster outreach, clinical assistance, blood donation, food preparation for rescue workers	Students further in their medical education were more likely to provide clinical assistance	Real	Terrorist attack
Keil (2007)29	Perspective	N/A	Clinical assistance, porters, giving information, observations, telephone, triage, clerking, staff immunization	N/A	Mixed	H5N1 pandemic
Lim (2009)30	Literature review	N/A	Education	N/A	Mixed	Viral pandemic
Lin (2009)31	Questionnaire	31	Manual ventilation, medical assistance, cardiopulmonary resuscitation	N/A	Hypothetical	N/A
Patil (2003)37	Report of events	Over 200 medical and nursing students	Raising awareness	N/A	Real	SARS epidemic
Rega (2011)38	Perspective	10	Registration, documentation, traffic control,patient surveillance, and education, immunizations	N/A	Real	H1N1 outbreak
Reyes (2010)39	Perspective	N/A	Clinical assistance, triage	N/A	Real	Earthquake and tsunami
Starr (1976)40	Perspective	N/A	Acting as medical interns and nurses	Fourth-year medical students acted as interns and third-year medical students acted as nurses	Real	Spanish flu
Trepman (2001)42	Literature review	95-100	Clinical assistance, logistics set-up emergency hospital, social-relief work	N/A	Real	WWII concentration camp