Can lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic help define a strategy for global pediatric radiology education?
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Can lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic help define a strategy for global pediatric radiology education? Jennifer Lynn Nicholas 1
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Erika Lynn Bass 2 & Hansel J. Otero 3
Received: 1 July 2020 / Revised: 3 August 2020 / Accepted: 18 August 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the aftershocks of profound economic turmoil and widespread social unrest resulted in seismic shifts in how radiologists work and teach [1, 2]. The upheaval that defined the first half of 2020 has created a new landscape, however, one in which long-standing barriers and silos have crumbled. With this new vista comes an historic opportunity to restructure pediatric radiology educational efforts to be more efficient, effective, cooperative and inclusive, both domestically and globally. In the past, global educational efforts have been driven by a relatively small group of pediatric radiologists concentrated within a few epicenters. Over time, these efforts have expanded to include international resident rotations and some funding support from radiology professional societies. For example, the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) Heidi Patriquin Fellowship Award for International Education has been sponsoring the attendance of colleagues from outside the United States to the annual SPR meeting since 2003 [3], and the World Federation of Pediatric Imaging (WFPI) successfully launched a program of regional pediatric radiology fellowships in 2018 with fellows gaining sub-specialized experience from colleagues in South Africa, Argentina, the Philippines and India [4]. Despite these advances, however, the global reach of pediatric radiology educational efforts has been constrained by physical and human resource limitations and pronounced
* Jennifer Lynn Nicholas [email protected] 1
University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Department of Languages and Literature, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA
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Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
technological challenges, all of which have been exacerbated by travel restrictions and supply chain disruptions during the pandemic. The process changes that were catalyzed by the events of early 2020 have revealed opportunities for us to apply the technological acumen and wisdom we gained by working, teaching and learning remotely to global radiology education.
Readout At the core of most teaching interactions in radiology is the one-on-one readout at the picture archiving and communication system (PACS) workstation, which is incongruous with the current recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of maintaining a distance of 6 ft between any two individuals [5]. Many radiologists have transitioned to readouts that occur synchronously over th
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