scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on an Academic Pain Fellowship Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 4S;23 (8;4S) ◽  
pp. S433-S437
Author(s):  
Anand Prem
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Free Fall ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fellowship Training ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Pain Clinic ◽  
Fellowship Program ◽  
Clinic Medical

Background: While the COVID-19 pandemic still rages on in the United States, leaving in its wake hundreds of thousands of infected patients, families shattered by the untimely death of their loved ones, an economy in free fall that hit all-time highs barely a few months ago, and a fearful citizenry unsure of what the future holds, the effect it has had on residency and fellowship training programs across the country may appear inconsequential to the general populace. However, if you are a graduating trainee confronted with this unusual set of circumstances, fear of the virus is not the only thing that is foremost in your mind. Methods: Literature review. Results: We discuss the unique challenges our pain fellowship program continues to deal with during this pandemic and particularly its impact on our fellows. It is entirely likely these concerns are mirrored in academic programs all over the United States. Limitations: A narrative review with paucity of literature. Key words: COVID-19, pain fellowship, interventional pain, graduating trainees, pain clinic, medical education during a pandemic

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education of Plastic Surgery Trainees in the United States (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Hamidian Jahromi ◽  
Alisa Arnautovic ◽  
Petros Konofaos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fellowship Training ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Journal Clubs ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact

UNSTRUCTURED The current COVID-19 pandemic has vastly impacted the health care system in the United States, and it is continuing to dictate its unprecedented influence on the education systems, especially the residency and fellowship training programs. The impact of COVID-19 on these training programs has not been uniform across the board, with plastic surgery residency and fellowship programs among the hardest hit specialties. Implementation of social distancing regulations has affected departmental educational activities, including preoperative, morbidity and mortality conferences and journal clubs; operating room educational activities; as well as the overall education of plastic surgery trainees in the United States. Almost all elective and semielective surgeries across the United States were suspended for a few months during the COVID-19 pandemic; this constitutes a significant portion of plastic surgery cases. Considering the current staged reopening policies, it may be a long time, if ever, before restrictions are completely lifted. In this paper, we review the multidimensional impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on the training programs of plastic surgery residents and fellows in the United States and worldwide, along with some potential solutions on how to address existing challenges.

scholarly journals Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Mass General Brigham Fellowship Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. OP.20.00894
Author(s):  
Robert M. Stern ◽  
M. Dror Michaelson ◽  
Erica L. Mayer ◽  
Aric D. Parnes ◽  
Annemarie E. Fogerty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Year ◽  
Fellowship Program ◽  
Dana Farber Cancer Institute ◽  
Fellowship Programs ◽  
Direct Feedback ◽  
Research Structure

The coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic has affected graduate medical education training programs, including hematology-oncology fellowship programs, both across the United States and abroad. Within the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Mass General Brigham hematology-oncology fellowship program, fellowship leadership had to quickly reorganize the program's clinical, educational, and research structure to minimize the risk of COVID-19 spread to our patients and staff, allow fellows to assist in the care of patients with COVID-19, maintain formal didactics despite physical distancing, and ensure the mental and physical well-being of fellows. Following the first wave of patients with COVID-19, we anonymously surveyed the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Mass General Brigham first-year fellows to explore their perceptions regarding what the program did well and what could have been improved in the COVID-19 response. In this article, we present the feedback from our fellows and the lessons we learned as a program from this feedback. To our knowledge, this represents the first effort in the hematology-oncology literature to directly assess a hematology-oncology program's overall response to COVID-19 through direct feedback from fellows.

Teaching and Training

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-140
Author(s):  
Jeff Levin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Graduate Medical Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Graduate Medical ◽  
And Training

Chapter 6 features descriptions of the most established academic institutes, centers, and programs for medical education and research on religion, faith, and spirituality in healthcare and healing. Beginning with the first program, established at Baylor in Houston, in the 1950s, these efforts continue through the present day. Current academic programs are described at leading universities including Duke, Emory, Harvard, Chicago, George Washington, and elsewhere. The specialized emphases and ongoing contributions of these respective programs and their directors, including Harold Koenig, are described in depth. The chapter also relates the key role of Dave Larson and John Templeton in institutionalizing content on religion and spirituality within undergraduate and graduate medical education in the United States.

scholarly journals Strategic Deployment of Cardiology Fellows in Training Using the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Coronavirus Disease 2019 Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Gallagher ◽  
Richard Bloomingdale ◽  
Aaron D. Berman ◽  
Brian D. Williamson ◽  
Simon R. Dixon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Graduate Medical Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fellowship Training ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Accreditation Council ◽  
Graduate Medical ◽  
Global Pandemic

Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 is a global pandemic affecting >3 million people in >170 countries, resulting in >200 000 deaths; 35% to 40% of patients and deaths are in the United States. The coronavirus disease 2019 crisis is placing an enormous burden on health care in the United States, including residency and fellowship training programs. The balance between mitigation, training and education, and patient care is the ultimate determinant of the role of cardiology fellows in training during the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis. On March 24, 2020, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education issued a formal response to the pandemic crisis and described a framework for operation of graduate medical education programs. Guidance for deployment of cardiology fellows in training during the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis is based on the principles of a medical mission, and adherence to preparation, protection, and support of our fellows in training. The purpose of this review is to describe our departmental strategic deployment of cardiology fellows in training using the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education framework for pandemic preparedness.

scholarly journals Mind the Gap: Representation of Medical Education in Cardiology-Related Articles and Journals

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clint Allred ◽  
Kathryn Berlacher ◽  
Saurabh Aggarwal ◽  
Alex J. Auseon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fellowship Training ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Fellowship Programs ◽  
Number Of Publications

ABSTRACT  Cardiology fellowship programs are at the interface of medical education and the care of patients suffering from the leading cause of mortality in the United States, yet there is an apparent lack of research guiding the effective education of fellows.Background  We sought to quantify the number of publications in cardiology journals that pertained to the education of cardiology trainees and the number of cardiologists participating in education research.Objective  For the period between January and December 2012, we cataloged cardiology-specific and general medical/medical education journals and sorted them by impact factor. Tables of content were reviewed for articles with an educational focus, a cardiology focus, or both. We recorded the authors' areas of medical training, and keywords from each cardiology journal's mission statement were reviewed for emphasis on education.Methods  Twenty-six cardiology journals, containing 6645 articles, were reviewed. Only 4 articles had education themes. Ten general medical and 15 medical education journals contained 6810 articles. Of these, only 7 focused on medical education in cardiology, and none focused on cardiology fellowship training. Among the 4887 authors of publications in medical education journals, 25 were cardiologists (less than 1%), and among the 1036 total words in the mission statements of all cardiology journals, the term “education” appeared once.Results  Published educational research is lacking in cardiology training, and few cardiologists appear to be active members of the education scholarship community. Cardiology organizations and academic journals should support efforts to identify target areas of study and publish scholarship in educational innovation.Conclusions

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Education of Plastic Surgery Trainees in the United States

10.2196/22045 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. e22045
Author(s):  
Alireza Hamidian Jahromi ◽  
Alisa Arnautovic ◽  
Petros Konofaos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fellowship Training ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Journal Clubs ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact

The current COVID-19 pandemic has vastly impacted the health care system in the United States, and it is continuing to dictate its unprecedented influence on the education systems, especially the residency and fellowship training programs. The impact of COVID-19 on these training programs has not been uniform across the board, with plastic surgery residency and fellowship programs among the hardest hit specialties. Implementation of social distancing regulations has affected departmental educational activities, including preoperative, morbidity and mortality conferences and journal clubs; operating room educational activities; as well as the overall education of plastic surgery trainees in the United States. Almost all elective and semielective surgeries across the United States were suspended for a few months during the COVID-19 pandemic; this constitutes a significant portion of plastic surgery cases. Considering the current staged reopening policies, it may be a long time, if ever, before restrictions are completely lifted. In this paper, we review the multidimensional impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on the training programs of plastic surgery residents and fellows in the United States and worldwide, along with some potential solutions on how to address existing challenges.

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