Maintaining Effective Senior Resident-Led Intern Education through Virtual Curricular Transition.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant shift to virtual resident education. While novel methods for virtual resident training have been described, many of these demonstrate a substantial change from previous instructional methods and their efficacy cannot be directly compared to in-person teaching. We sought to determine if the conversion of our intern "summer school" from an in-person to online format (a) impacted the knowledge acquisition of interns, and (b) their preferences for senior resident-led didactics.

Design

A senior-resident led intern summer curriculum was started in an in-person format with the 2019-2020 academic year. Interns underwent assessments of their knowledge and surveys of changes in subject confidence. After the COVID-19 pandemi

SUBMITTER: Caldwell KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8905095 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature