Maintaining education, research and innovation in orthopaedic surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic. The role of virtual
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Maintaining education, research and innovation in orthopaedic surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic. The role of virtual platforms. From presential to virtual, front and side effects of the pandemic Marius M. Scarlat 1 & Jing Sun 2 & Patricia M. B. Fucs 3 & Peter Giannoudis 4 & Andreas F. Mavrogenis 5 & Thami Benzakour 6 & Andrew Quaile 7 & James P. Waddell 8 Published online: 16 October 2020 # SICOT aisbl 2020
Being physician or medical student is a complex task that became currently more subtle and difficult. On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global pandemic with the occurrence and spread of a potentially life-threatening virus named COVID-19 with over 100.000 cases in 100 different countries affected by that time [1]. The pandemic spread fast and at the time when this paper goes in print over one million humans died as a result of viral action or related complications and over 36 million were infected [2]. The need to control the spread of the virus imposed in many countries measures of confinement, lockdown and social distancing. The orthopaedic practice was deeply affected by the pandemic and all the work schedules were altered. Guidelines from professional associations [3, 4, 5] proposed to postpone elective surgeries depending on the local situations and resources. The pandemic demonstrated the health system inequalities throughout the world, red lights turned
* Marius M. Scarlat [email protected] 1
Clinique Chirurgicale St Michel, Groupe ELSAN, Toulon, France
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Orthopaedic Surgery Official Journal of the Chinese Orthopaedic Association, Tianjin, China
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Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Pediatric Orthopaedics, Santa Casa de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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Orthopaedic Department, Kapadostrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Zerktouni Orthopaedic Clinic, Casablanca, Morocco
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Spineworks, Hampshire Clinic, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK
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St Michael Hospital, Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
on in many countries making visible how hard is to address such a global threat even in the twenty-first century. The pandemic changed the world, in all aspects, but we don’t know yet if for better or for worse. We are still far from the end of it. Dealing with the “new normal” is a stressful change, still a working process to all of us [6]. The teaching / learning, to all ages and grades and types of schools is altered in terms of methods, outcomes and results, learning could be affected with online classes, especially in the young age group of children and adolescents. The medical school students were affected too. In many countries the theoretical part activities shifted to online in the preclinical years [7, 8]. New sophisticated tools are developed to measure the efficacy of the e-learning. The side effects could be compensated in the following school year if normality equals again physical participation in class and school activities. Limit
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