Postgraduate Medical Training and COVID-19 Pandemic: Should We Stop, Freeze, or Continue?

While many countries in the world are going through a state of lockdown to limit the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), such a state may affect postgraduate medical training (PGMT) adversely in different aspects. These include a decreased number of clinical cases related to the specialty...

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Autor principal: Algiraigri, Ali H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Production and Hosting by Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7236716/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hpe.2020.04.002
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Sumario:While many countries in the world are going through a state of lockdown to limit the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), such a state may affect postgraduate medical training (PGMT) adversely in different aspects. These include a decreased number of clinical cases related to the specialty, staff shortage, cancelation of educational conferences, and difficulties conducting formal in-training and licensing examinations. Trainees, program directors, licensing bodies, and other stakeholders are in a difficult situation regarding what to do next. Such a situation raises several critical questions related to the training that we tried to address here.

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