The Impact of COVID-19 on Total Joint Arthroplasty Fellowship Training.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 created unprecedented challenges in surgical training especially in specialties with high elective case volume. We hypothesized that case volume during total joint arthroplasty fellowship training would decrease by 25% given widespread economic shutdowns encountered during the fourth quarter of the 2019-2020 academic year.

Methods

Case logs from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education were obtained for accredited total joint arthroplasty fellowships (2017-2018 to 2020-2021). Case volumes were extracted and summarized as means ± SD. Student's t tests were used for inter-year comparisons.

Results

One hundred and eighty three arthroplasty fellows from 24 accredited fellowships were included. There was a 14% year-over-year decrease in

SUBMITTER: Silvestre J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8979627 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature