Postgraduate Medical Training and COVID-19 Pandemic: Should We Stop, Freeze, or Continue?
Health Prof Educ
; 6(2): 123-125, 2020 Jun.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38620423
ABSTRACT
While many countries in the world are going through a state of lockdown to limit the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), such a state may affect postgraduate medical training (PGMT) adversely in different aspects. These include a decreased number of clinical cases related to the specialty, staff shortage, cancelation of educational conferences, and difficulties conducting formal in-training and licensing examinations. Trainees, program directors, licensing bodies, and other stakeholders are in a difficult situation regarding what to do next. Such a situation raises several critical questions related to the training that we tried to address here.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Language:
En
Journal:
Health Prof Educ
Year:
2020
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Saudi Arabia
Country of publication:
Netherlands