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Surgical oncology residents’ perspective in the COVID-19 pandemic: Standing at crossroads

The COVID-19 pandemic has hampered health-care delivery, with non-emergent consultations and surgical procedures being brought to a standstill. However, a delay in comprehensive cancer care may result in disease progression and poorer outcomes. Surgical oncology residents often form the front line r...

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Autores principales: Gundavda, Kaival K., Patkar, Shraddha, Gulia, Ashish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8219022/
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/IJMS_375_2020
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has hampered health-care delivery, with non-emergent consultations and surgical procedures being brought to a standstill. However, a delay in comprehensive cancer care may result in disease progression and poorer outcomes. Surgical oncology residents often form the front line responders for cancer patients, but now also have to function outside of their specialty to serve in COVID-19 units. With the uncertainty and unpredictability of this pandemic, surgical oncology residents find themselves at a crossroads. The need to keep abreast with COVID-19 treatment guidelines and recommendations comes at the expense of their surgical training. There is also a rising concern about personal safety, wellness, psychosocial well-being, and burnout. We highlight various elements concerning residents and suggest strategies that may be undertaken to allay anxiety and fatigue and facilitate surgical education.
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spelling pubmed-82190222021-06-24 Surgical oncology residents’ perspective in the COVID-19 pandemic: Standing at crossroads Gundavda, Kaival K. Patkar, Shraddha Gulia, Ashish Indian J Med Sci Viewpoint The COVID-19 pandemic has hampered health-care delivery, with non-emergent consultations and surgical procedures being brought to a standstill. However, a delay in comprehensive cancer care may result in disease progression and poorer outcomes. Surgical oncology residents often form the front line responders for cancer patients, but now also have to function outside of their specialty to serve in COVID-19 units. With the uncertainty and unpredictability of this pandemic, surgical oncology residents find themselves at a crossroads. The need to keep abreast with COVID-19 treatment guidelines and recommendations comes at the expense of their surgical training. There is also a rising concern about personal safety, wellness, psychosocial well-being, and burnout. We highlight various elements concerning residents and suggest strategies that may be undertaken to allay anxiety and fatigue and facilitate surgical education. Scientific Scholar 2021-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8219022/ http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/IJMS_375_2020 Text en © 2021 Published by Scientific Scholar on behalf of Indian Journal of Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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