The Pandemic Academy: Reflections of Infectious Diseases Fellows During COVID-19

Darius L L Beh; Dorothy H L Ng; Sean W X Ong; Stephanie Sutjipto; Pei Hua Lee; Jolene Oon; Chen Seong Wong; Sophia Archuleta

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa256

The Pandemic Academy: Reflections of Infectious Diseases Fellows During COVID-19

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Jun 25;7(7):ofaa256. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa256. eCollection 2020 Jul.

Authors

Darius L L Beh¹, Dorothy H L Ng², Sean W X Ong^{3

4}, Stephanie Sutjipto^{3

4}, Pei Hua Lee^{3

4}, Jolene Oon^{1

5}, Chen Seong Wong^{3

4

5}, Sophia Archuleta^{1

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, National University Hospital, Singapore.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
⁴ National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore.
⁵ Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken over the world at an unprecedented scale. As Infectious Diseases fellows, this has come straight into the heart of our specialty and created a unique impact on our training progress and perspective. Here, we reflect on our early experiences during the first three months of battling COVID-19 in Singapore and glean some lessons for this pandemic and beyond.

Keywords: COVID-19; ID training; education; residency.