COVID-19: an opportunity to restructure surgical education
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Eur Surg https://doi.org/10.1007/s10353-020-00651-2
COVID-19: an opportunity to restructure surgical education Abelardo Juanz-González · Jorge Arturo Barreras-Espinoza Francisco Alberto Leyva-Moraga · Fernando Leyva-Moraga Jesús Martín Ibarra-Celaya · Graciano Castillo-Ortega
· Ahmed Soualhi · Eduardo Leyva-Moraga · Marcos José Serrato-Félix ·
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Received: 11 June 2020 / Accepted: 20 June 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed how institutions manage their surgical services. Elective procedures are postponed to prioritize emergency surgeries, due to the high risk of COVID-19 exposure to the surgical staff. Hospitals have also changed the roles and schedules of healthcare workers, with resident and attending surgeons instructed to stay at home and eliminate all risky transmission activities, including academic, non-essential clinical, and administrative tasks [1]. How has this pandemic impacted the education of surgical trainees? The reduced number of elective procedures has decreased the training opportunities in the operating theater. Moreover, a number of staff members in the surgical team have had to self-isolate after reporting symptoms of COVID-19. As a result, this phenomenon has led to more focused efforts at continuing with quality surgical education, while simultaneously ensuring the safety and health of trainees [1]. Strategies are being implemented to
A. Juanz-González · J. A. Barreras-Espinoza · M. J. Serrato-Félix · G. Castillo-Ortega Surgery Department, Hospital General del Estado de Sonora, Hermosillo, México A. Soualhi GKT School of Medical Education, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom E. Leyva-Moraga, MD () · F. A. Leyva-Moraga · F. Leyva-Moraga Departamento de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Sonora, Av Luis Donaldo Colosio, Centro, 83000 Hermosillo, México [email protected] J. M. Ibarra-Celaya Thoracic Surgery Deparment, Hospital General de Querétaro, Querétaro, México
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adapt face-to-face activities to remote learning, using technologies and virtual platforms [2]. This pandemic presents a huge opportunity to reconstruct the method by which surgical trainees learn and adapt to their curricular activities. In our institution, we noticed how surgical residents took initiative in improving their engagement with academic activities by pursuing research that they would not have otherwise been engaged in or have had the time to pursue. We noticed that our surgical trainees have had more time to spend on academic rather than administrative work, resulting in reduced symptoms of burnout amongst attending and resident surgeons. We would like to see wider studies address this topic: has the reduced surgical workload during the COVID19 pandemic resulted in lower rates of burnout among surgical residents? And has the reduction in clinical work resulted in an increase in academic activity? How does this correlate with developing a more holistic surgeon who is competent in both technical skills
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