Checklist Framework for Surgical Education Disaster Plans

[摘要] The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted-and, as of this writing, continues to disrupt-surgical training programs across the US and around the globe. Reductions in operative procedures, due first to the nationwide moratorium on nonessential operations and then to multiple subsequent waves of the pandemic that strained hospital capacity, jeopardized the ability of many trainees, especially those in their chief resident years, to achieve required case minimums. Social distancing policies interfered with the workflow of care teams, as well as the ability to gather for in-person didactic conferences. Trainee safety and wellness were compromised by factors ranging from redeployment to nonoperative assignments, such as ICUs, emergency departments, and wards overrun with COVID-19 patients to shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) that risked viral transmission to self,

[发布日期] 2021-10-01