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cord-332175-d5suvj8g	Allen, Jawara	My Future in Medicine: How COVID-19 Is Inspiring the Next Generation of Infectious Disease Specialists	2020-04-11		.txt	text/plain	1246	70	59	Three weeks later-on the day I was scheduled to start the clinical portion of my medical training-there were 418 700 confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally [1] . By that time, many courses had started remote instruction, most research laboratories had been closed to all nonessential personnel, and medical school core clerkships had been temporarily canceled, all in an effort to decrease student exposure to COVID-19 and help "flatten the curve. But as a medical student eager to reenter the world of clinical care, the personal stories from the communities that would be most impacted by this relentless pathogen soon consumed my thoughts. Few other events before have so poignantly highlighted the global nature of health, the vulnerability of certain populations around the world, and the need for more infectious disease specialists. But the importance of infectious disease specialists will not end once the number of newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases starts to decrease. To protect those communities, we need more infectious disease specialists.	./cache/cord-332175-d5suvj8g.txt	./txt/cord-332175-d5suvj8g.txt