Internal Medicine Resident Work Absence During the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Large Academic Medical Center in New York City.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Montefiore Medical Center (MMC) is a large tertiary care center in the Bronx, New York City, with 245 internal medicine residents. Beginning on February 29, 2020, residents became ill with COVID-19-like illness (CLI), which required absence from work. There was initially a shortage of personal protective equipment and delays in SARS-CoV-2 testing, which gradually improved during March and April 2020.

Objective

We evaluated the relationship between CLI-related work absence rates of internal medicine residents and MMC's COVID-19 hospital census over time.

Methods

Data on resident work absence between February 29 and May 22 were reviewed along with MMC's COVID-19 hospital census data. To determine the effect of patient exposure on resident CLI incidence, we co

SUBMITTER: Merkin R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7771614 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature