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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description 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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spelling pubmed-72367162020-05-19 Postgraduate Medical Training and COVID-19 Pandemic: Should We Stop, Freeze, or Continue? Algiraigri, Ali H. Health Professions Education Article 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. King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Production and Hosting by Elsevier B.V. 2020-06 2020-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7236716/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hpe.2020.04.002 Text en © 2020 King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Production and Hosting by Elsevier B.V. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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