Impact of COVID-19 on oncology education and training in India

Coronavirus disease-19 was declared a pandemic and global emergency in March 2020. Oncology education and training has been on a rollercoaster ride ever since. Despite major changes in the work environment, training for postgraduates in oncology has continued with various challenges. We discuss the...

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Autores principales: Rao, Seema Rajesh, Gurram, Lavanya, K, Vasudev Bhat, Lewis, Shirley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7738265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33343706
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.ed107
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description Coronavirus disease-19 was declared a pandemic and global emergency in March 2020. Oncology education and training has been on a rollercoaster ride ever since. Despite major changes in the work environment, training for postgraduates in oncology has continued with various challenges. We discuss the changes brought about in education, training and assessments for oncology residents.
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spelling pubmed-77382652020-12-18 Impact of COVID-19 on oncology education and training in India Rao, Seema Rajesh Gurram, Lavanya K, Vasudev Bhat Lewis, Shirley Ecancermedicalscience Editorial Coronavirus disease-19 was declared a pandemic and global emergency in March 2020. Oncology education and training has been on a rollercoaster ride ever since. Despite major changes in the work environment, training for postgraduates in oncology has continued with various challenges. We discuss the changes brought about in education, training and assessments for oncology residents. Cancer Intelligence 2020-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7738265/ /pubmed/33343706 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.ed107 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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