The Orthopedic Residency Program at Hamad Medical Corporation During COVID-19 Crisis: an Evolving Educational Strategy
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The Orthopedic Residency Program at Hamad Medical Corporation During COVID-19 Crisis: an Evolving Educational Strategy Motasem Salameh 1 & Abduljabbar Alhammoud 1 & Mohammad Al Ateeq Al Dosari 1 & Ghalib Ahmed AlHaneedi 1,2,3 Accepted: 6 October 2020 # International Association of Medical Science Educators 2020
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the strategies of most of the teaching hospitals worldwide, affecting the educational process in residency programs. The System Wide Incident Command Committee in the state of Qatar has set the country’s medical response to the crisis. In line with command committee directives, the orthopedic surgery residency program planned an educational strategy keeping the trainees’ wellbeing and education a priority and taking advantage of the pandemic as a tool of personal and professional growth. Keywords COVID-19 . Education . Residency . Orthopedic
Introduction COVID-19 has rapidly become a worldwide public health threat, endangering the health and wellbeing of all people, especially vulnerable populations [1–3]. Controlling the spread of COVID-19 has become the essential focus of almost all countries worldwide, with unprecedented international collaboration and rapid dissemination of emerging scientific evidence [1–3]. During natural disasters and emergency plans, residents’ wellbeing and education were the top priority of the residency programs and institutions. Hence, greater flexibility to accommodate resident training needs was required [4]. In a recent report from Wuhan, 19 orthopedic surgeons were COVID-19 positive with an incidence ranging from 1.5 to 20% in some hospitals, with the highest exposure risk in general wards [5]. The state of Qatar, through Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), has developed the institution’s COVID-19 command center called “System Wide Incident Command
* Ghalib Ahmed AlHaneedi [email protected]; [email protected] 1
Orthopedic Surgery Department, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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Orthopedic Residency Training Program, Weil Cornell Medical College, Ar-Rayyan, Qatar
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Hamad Medical Corporation, PO Box 3050, Doha, Qatar
Committee (SWICC)” to provide up to date information about the COVID-19 status and manage the crisis in the country. In line with that, the department of orthopedic surgery, an accredited residency program by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical EducationInternational (ACGME-I), at HMC started planning a strategy to deal with the COVID-19 crisis. Our main priority was the wellbeing of our residents and faculty, the continuation of education and training, and taking opportunity to learn from each other implementing the ACGME-I core competencies.
SWICC Actions Affecting Surgical Departments Several SWICC plans to fight the COVID-19 pandemic had a considerable effect on the surgical departments, including and not limited to the following: all elective operating lists were postponed, and the orthopedic theatres were kept only for acute trauma and musculoskeletal oncolo
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