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VSAS is officially suspended for the next two weeks.
Here's the email for anyone interested:
We recognize that the visiting student process has been greatly impacted by COVID-19 and as a student, you are concerned about the timing and impact on away rotations you may be considering. Away rotations, particularly in the coming months normally play a role in the residency application process. We are also aware that travel restrictions and variations in rotation availability may create inequity among students as you seek elective experiences in a compressed timeline.
The AAMC wants to assure students are given equal consideration in an academic and clinical training cycle that may be different in the months ahead. Therefore, after broad consultation with the academic medicine community, we will suspend access to the Visiting Student Application Service (VSAS) from Wednesday, April 15th until Wednesday, April 29th. During this time, students, Home and Host institutions will not have access to the system.
This two-week suspension will allow the many stakeholders within the medical education community – medical students certainly among them – to have important discussions about the complexities of providing away rotations considering COVID-19's impact on education, patient care, learner safety and travel.
Obviously not going to constrain all the non-VSAS programs, but it looks like a "slow your roll" measure for the programs soliciting apps.