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An internal medicine residency’s response to the COVID-19 crisis: caring for our residents while caring for our patients

BACKGROUND: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, internal medicine residencies have had to develop new teaching strategies and attend to wellness concerns. Providing front-line care for patients in a time of widespread crisis while maintaining attention to training has created unprecedented challen...

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Autores principales: Detterline, Stephanie, Hartman-Hall, Heather, Garbow, Katherine, Rawal, Himanshu, Blackwood, David, Nizialek, Gregory, Nashaat, Zayd
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7598991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33194118
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1807218
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author Detterline, Stephanie
Hartman-Hall, Heather
Garbow, Katherine
Rawal, Himanshu
Blackwood, David
Nizialek, Gregory
Nashaat, Zayd
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Hartman-Hall, Heather
Garbow, Katherine
Rawal, Himanshu
Blackwood, David
Nizialek, Gregory
Nashaat, Zayd
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description BACKGROUND: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, internal medicine residencies have had to develop new teaching strategies and attend to wellness concerns. Providing front-line care for patients in a time of widespread crisis while maintaining attention to training has created unprecedented challenges. OBJECTIVE: Our large community hospital based internal medicine residency sought to develop and evaluate a crisis response to the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic to meet our residents’ educational and wellness needs. METHODS: In March 2020, our residency developed a crisis plan for functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic. A brief survey was sent via email to our 149 residents to obtain their evaluation of how well their needs were being met by this response. RESULTS: 92 (62%) residents completed the survey. 88% indicated their well-being needs were well met. Other components were also rated as successful: effective communication (86%), scheduling/staffing (78%), preparing residents for clinical service (77%), and educational needs (76%). CONCLUSIONS: Our residency crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic was favorably evaluated by our residents in meeting their training and well-being needs. In future work we plan to seek longer-term and more objective measures to assess how residents fare during these challenging times, and to use lessons learned to prepare for future crisis situations.
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spelling pubmed-75989912020-11-12 An internal medicine residency’s response to the COVID-19 crisis: caring for our residents while caring for our patients Detterline, Stephanie Hartman-Hall, Heather Garbow, Katherine Rawal, Himanshu Blackwood, David Nizialek, Gregory Nashaat, Zayd J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Perspective BACKGROUND: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, internal medicine residencies have had to develop new teaching strategies and attend to wellness concerns. Providing front-line care for patients in a time of widespread crisis while maintaining attention to training has created unprecedented challenges. OBJECTIVE: Our large community hospital based internal medicine residency sought to develop and evaluate a crisis response to the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic to meet our residents’ educational and wellness needs. METHODS: In March 2020, our residency developed a crisis plan for functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic. A brief survey was sent via email to our 149 residents to obtain their evaluation of how well their needs were being met by this response. RESULTS: 92 (62%) residents completed the survey. 88% indicated their well-being needs were well met. Other components were also rated as successful: effective communication (86%), scheduling/staffing (78%), preparing residents for clinical service (77%), and educational needs (76%). CONCLUSIONS: Our residency crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic was favorably evaluated by our residents in meeting their training and well-being needs. In future work we plan to seek longer-term and more objective measures to assess how residents fare during these challenging times, and to use lessons learned to prepare for future crisis situations. Taylor & Francis 2020-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7598991/ /pubmed/33194118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1807218 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of Greater Baltimore Medical Center. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nizialek, Gregory
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title_short An internal medicine residency’s response to the COVID-19 crisis: caring for our residents while caring for our patients
title_sort internal medicine residency’s response to the covid-19 crisis: caring for our residents while caring for our patients
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7598991/
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