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Urology Residency Training at the Time of COVID-19 in Italy: 1 Year After the Beginning
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to significant changes in urology practice and residency programs. One year ago, the first nationwide survey on this topic showed a dramatic impact of the acute phase of the pandemic on residents’ training activities. Aiming to assess for the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8342892/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34396350 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euros.2021.07.002 |
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author | Amparore, Daniele Checcucci, Enrico Serni, Sergio Minervini, Andrea Gacci, Mauro Esperto, Francesco Fiori, Cristian Porpiglia, Francesco Campi, Riccardo |
author_facet | Amparore, Daniele Checcucci, Enrico Serni, Sergio Minervini, Andrea Gacci, Mauro Esperto, Francesco Fiori, Cristian Porpiglia, Francesco Campi, Riccardo |
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description | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to significant changes in urology practice and residency programs. One year ago, the first nationwide survey on this topic showed a dramatic impact of the acute phase of the pandemic on residents’ training activities. Aiming to assess for the first time how the COVID-19 scenario reshaped the pattern of urology training over a whole pandemic year, a cross-sectional, 38-item, web-based survey was developed. Residents scored the percentage decrease of their involvement in various clinical and surgical activities during the period of March 2020–March 2021 (as compared with the pre-COVID period). Overall, 312/585 (53.3%) residents from 27 schools of urology were included. The proportions of those experiencing a significant decrease of training exposure were 13.6%, 28.8%, 26.7%, 46.9%, 37.6%, and 33.3% (as compared with 40.2%, 85.8%. 82.3%, 69.7%, 59.7%, and 50.2% in the previous survey) for on-call activities, outpatient visits, diagnostic procedures, endoscopic surgery, open surgery, and minimally invasive surgery, respectively. The most impactful reductions in training activities were reached by final-year residents. Our findings highlight that, even if less burdensome than expected, urology residency training (especially in endoscopic surgery) was highly affected throughout the whole past year. This critical gap of skills may jeopardize residents’ training even beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. PATIENT SUMMARY: In this study, we assessed whether the training activities of Italian urology residents were impacted negatively by a whole year of COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020–March 2021). We also compared our results with those reported in a previous survey evaluating how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic changed the training pattern of urology residents during the peak of the outbreak in March 2020. We found a critical decrease in residents’ activities (especially for those in their final years of residency and for surgical procedures) that, even if lower than expected, might negatively impact their education and training in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-83428922021-08-13 Urology Residency Training at the Time of COVID-19 in Italy: 1 Year After the Beginning Amparore, Daniele Checcucci, Enrico Serni, Sergio Minervini, Andrea Gacci, Mauro Esperto, Francesco Fiori, Cristian Porpiglia, Francesco Campi, Riccardo Eur Urol Open Sci Brief Correspondence The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to significant changes in urology practice and residency programs. One year ago, the first nationwide survey on this topic showed a dramatic impact of the acute phase of the pandemic on residents’ training activities. Aiming to assess for the first time how the COVID-19 scenario reshaped the pattern of urology training over a whole pandemic year, a cross-sectional, 38-item, web-based survey was developed. Residents scored the percentage decrease of their involvement in various clinical and surgical activities during the period of March 2020–March 2021 (as compared with the pre-COVID period). Overall, 312/585 (53.3%) residents from 27 schools of urology were included. The proportions of those experiencing a significant decrease of training exposure were 13.6%, 28.8%, 26.7%, 46.9%, 37.6%, and 33.3% (as compared with 40.2%, 85.8%. 82.3%, 69.7%, 59.7%, and 50.2% in the previous survey) for on-call activities, outpatient visits, diagnostic procedures, endoscopic surgery, open surgery, and minimally invasive surgery, respectively. The most impactful reductions in training activities were reached by final-year residents. Our findings highlight that, even if less burdensome than expected, urology residency training (especially in endoscopic surgery) was highly affected throughout the whole past year. This critical gap of skills may jeopardize residents’ training even beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. PATIENT SUMMARY: In this study, we assessed whether the training activities of Italian urology residents were impacted negatively by a whole year of COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020–March 2021). We also compared our results with those reported in a previous survey evaluating how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic changed the training pattern of urology residents during the peak of the outbreak in March 2020. We found a critical decrease in residents’ activities (especially for those in their final years of residency and for surgical procedures) that, even if lower than expected, might negatively impact their education and training in the future. Elsevier 2021-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8342892/ /pubmed/34396350 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euros.2021.07.002 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Brief Correspondence Amparore, Daniele Checcucci, Enrico Serni, Sergio Minervini, Andrea Gacci, Mauro Esperto, Francesco Fiori, Cristian Porpiglia, Francesco Campi, Riccardo Urology Residency Training at the Time of COVID-19 in Italy: 1 Year After the Beginning |
title | Urology Residency Training at the Time of COVID-19 in Italy: 1 Year After the Beginning |
title_full | Urology Residency Training at the Time of COVID-19 in Italy: 1 Year After the Beginning |
title_fullStr | Urology Residency Training at the Time of COVID-19 in Italy: 1 Year After the Beginning |
title_full_unstemmed | Urology Residency Training at the Time of COVID-19 in Italy: 1 Year After the Beginning |
title_short | Urology Residency Training at the Time of COVID-19 in Italy: 1 Year After the Beginning |
title_sort | urology residency training at the time of covid-19 in italy: 1 year after the beginning |
topic | Brief Correspondence |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8342892/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34396350 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euros.2021.07.002 |
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