Educational and personal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency medicine resident physicians: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on both the clinical practice and the psychological states of frontline physicians in the emergency department. Trainees, at the beginning of their careers and thus still developing their practice styles and identities as physicians, were uniquely affected.

Objective

In this qualitative study, we sought to explore how the pandemic environment shaped the experiences of emergency medicine resident physicians.

Methods

This was a qualitative study. We conducted in-depth interviews with emergency medicine faculty, resident physicians, and staff at a single emergency department based at an urban academic institution in the northeastern United States. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed, and transcripts wer

SUBMITTER: Fults E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11429862 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature