Medicine and surgery residents' perspectives on the impact of COVID-19 on graduate medical education.

Authors

Tanvi Rana, idney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesFollow
Christopher Hackett, Department of Neurology, Neuroscience Institute, Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Timothy Quezada, Department of Neurology, Neuroscience Institute, Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Abhishek Chaturvedi, Department of Medicine, Medicine Institute, Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Veli Bakalov, Department of Medicine, Medicine Institute, Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Jody Leonardo, Neurosurgery, Neuroscience Institute, Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Sandeep Rana, Department of Neurology, Neuroscience Institute, Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2020

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This article has been peer reviewed. It was published in: Medical Education Online.

The published version is available at DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2020.1818439

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Abstract

The COVID-19 crisis has had an unprecedented impact on resident education and well-being: social distancing guidelines have limited patient volumes and forced virtual learning, while personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages, school/daycare closures, and visa restrictions have served as additional stressors. Our study aimed to analyze the effects of COVID-19 crisis-related stressors on residents' professional and personal lives. In April 2020, we administered a survey to residents at a large academic hospital system in order to assess the impact of the pandemic on residency training after >6 weeks of a modified schedule. The primary outcome was to determine which factors or resident characteristics were related to stress during the pandemic. Our secondary goals were to examine which resident characteristics were related to survey responses. Data were analyzed with regression analyses. Ninety-six of 205 residents completed the survey (47% response rate). For our primary outcome, anxiety about PPE

Recommended Citation

Rana, Tanvi; Hackett, Christopher; Quezada, Timothy; Chaturvedi, Abhishek; Bakalov, Veli; Leonardo, Jody; and Rana, Sandeep, "Medicine and surgery residents' perspectives on the impact of COVID-19 on graduate medical education." (2020). COVID-19 Papers, Posters, and Presentations. Paper 2.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/covid-19/2

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