Effects of COVID-19 on Residency and Fellowship Training: Results of a National Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every facet of American health care, including graduate medical education (GME). Prior studies show that COVID-19 resulted in reduced opportunities for elective surgeries, lower patient volumes, altered clinical rotations, increased reliance on telemedicine, and dependence on virtual didactic conferences. These studies, however, focused on individual specialties. Because the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) routinely collects information from all programs it has an obligation to use these data to inform the profession about important trends affecting GME.

Objective

To describe how the pandemic influenced resident training across all specialty programs in areas of clinical experiences, telemedicine, and

SUBMITTER: Hogan SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9200244 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature