Abstract Background Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic impose significant limitations on clinical education in emergency medicine (EM) Methods An emergency physician (EP) with smart glasses technology (SGT) was deployed into our emergency department (ED) to identify, enable and curate a remote ED clinical learning experience for preclinical medical students in lieu of onsite shadowing Students were assigned to one of four (2-hour) sessions in May or June 2020 Results All 22 students participated remotely and responded to post-rotation surveys Feedback showed enthusiastic acceptance by instructors and students Difficulty with technology was minimal All students ?strongly agreed? that they would participate in future sessions Conclusions This SGT instructional method represents a feasible and effective strategy to expose preclinical medical students to clinical medicine in the emergency department
Smart glasses and video conferencing provide valuable medical student clinical exposure during COVID-19