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Lessons Learnt from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Starting Residency in a Foster Institution

In Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MOH) raised the public health response level from DORSCON (Disease Outbreak Response System Condition) ‘Yellow’ to ‘Orange’ on 7 February 2020. This instituted strict movement restrictions for all healthcare workers to minimise cross-institutional transmission o...

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Autores principales: Tan, Jiekai, Wee, Lin, Li-Ann Chia, Faith, Khoon Ng, Wee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8243090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34263056
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23821205211024055
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description In Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MOH) raised the public health response level from DORSCON (Disease Outbreak Response System Condition) ‘Yellow’ to ‘Orange’ on 7 February 2020. This instituted strict movement restrictions for all healthcare workers to minimise cross-institutional transmission of COVID-19, creating a unique scenario where many residents physically located in different healthcare institutions at the start of DORSCON Orange were unable to return to their matched Sponsoring Institutions (SIs) to begin residency training in July 2020. Residents faced multiple administrative and emotional challenges as a result of freezing of cross-institutional movement. These challenges included concerns with regards to meeting training requirements (due to different modes of assessment, and posting structures between the 3 SIs) and concerns with regards to emotional support (due to starting residency in an unfamiliar environment where the resident may have less pre-existing connections/support). These challenges were swiftly addressed by the strong support of foster and parent institutions, and close communication between the leadership of the 3 SIs. Lessons learnt from the current pandemic include the need for a common online platform across the 3 SIs with regards to assessment forms, importance of sharing teaching materials between the different SIs and the need for close collaboration between parent and foster SIs with regards to balancing training requirements versus the needs posed by a pandemic situation on the healthcare structure.
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spelling pubmed-82430902021-07-13 Lessons Learnt from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Starting Residency in a Foster Institution Tan, Jiekai Wee, Lin Li-Ann Chia, Faith Khoon Ng, Wee J Med Educ Curric Dev Perspective In Singapore, the Ministry of Health (MOH) raised the public health response level from DORSCON (Disease Outbreak Response System Condition) ‘Yellow’ to ‘Orange’ on 7 February 2020. This instituted strict movement restrictions for all healthcare workers to minimise cross-institutional transmission of COVID-19, creating a unique scenario where many residents physically located in different healthcare institutions at the start of DORSCON Orange were unable to return to their matched Sponsoring Institutions (SIs) to begin residency training in July 2020. Residents faced multiple administrative and emotional challenges as a result of freezing of cross-institutional movement. These challenges included concerns with regards to meeting training requirements (due to different modes of assessment, and posting structures between the 3 SIs) and concerns with regards to emotional support (due to starting residency in an unfamiliar environment where the resident may have less pre-existing connections/support). These challenges were swiftly addressed by the strong support of foster and parent institutions, and close communication between the leadership of the 3 SIs. Lessons learnt from the current pandemic include the need for a common online platform across the 3 SIs with regards to assessment forms, importance of sharing teaching materials between the different SIs and the need for close collaboration between parent and foster SIs with regards to balancing training requirements versus the needs posed by a pandemic situation on the healthcare structure. SAGE Publications 2021-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8243090/ /pubmed/34263056 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23821205211024055 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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