Emma Batchelder, MD

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Emma Batchelder, MD, is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine. Between 2020 and 2025, Batchelder has published extensively on the impact of COVID-19 on psychiatric education, clinical practice, and mental health, with a focus on obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. The work includes topics such as changes in medical and physician assistant education, stress-related psychiatric conditions during the pandemic, and challenges faced by medical students applying for psychiatry residency.

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Medical Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Original Research

Medical Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic

February 11, 2025

The pandemic disrupted traditional undergraduate medical education and required adaptations to the clerkship curriculum, such as integration of virtual patient care and telehealth services, to provide meaningful learning experiences.
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Case Series

COVID-19 and OCD

March 18, 2021

There is limited research on how a large-scale pandemic affects different aspects of OCD. Here, read about 2 cases in which there was significant deterioration in symptoms of OCD...
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Commentary

COVID-19 and Physician Assistant Education

January 14, 2021

In this commentary, the authors discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the delivery of physician assistant education.
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Case Report

PTSD Due to Public Masking During COVID-19

December 23, 2020

Here, the authors report 2 cases of PTSD exacerbation in the context of public masking during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was reported to be a trigger leading to inpatient...
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Commentary

Psychiatry Residency Application and COVID-19

December 17, 2020

In this commentary, the authors detail the challenges that aspiring psychiatrists face in applying for residency positions during the 2020-2021 cycle in the midst of COVID-19 from the perspective...
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Case Report

COVID-19-Related Stress in Children

September 17, 2020

What impact is the COVID-19 pandemic having on children? This case series of adolescents admitted to an inpatient psychiatric facility with mental health and safety concerns due to COVID-19-related...
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Commentary

Psychiatric Medical Education in the Age of COVID-19

September 10, 2020

This commentary reports on the steps that the Penn State Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and affiliated College of Medicine have taken to ensure safety, while facilitating meaningful...
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