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

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 re

SUBMITTER: Rana T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7534325 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature