COVID-19: The Impact on Internal Medicine Resident Training

Odalys Estefania Lara Garcia; Khalid Sawalha; Mohammad Al-Akchar

doi:10.1055/s-0042-1743210

COVID-19: The Impact on Internal Medicine Resident Training

Avicenna J Med. 2022 Mar 10;12(1):41-44. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1743210. eCollection 2022 Jan.

Authors

Odalys Estefania Lara Garcia¹, Khalid Sawalha², Mohammad Al-Akchar³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States.
² Department of Internal Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
³ Department of Cardiology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States.

Abstract

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted the lives of physicians at all levels. The workloads and working hours have increased tremendously which affected the time spent on administrative and academic duties. The COVID-19 pandemic imposed a lot of challenges on academic institutions in term of providing quality of care to patients and maintaining the quality of education for trainee. Herein, we discuss the challenges and impact of the pandemic on residents training.

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

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