Postgraduate Medical Training and COVID-19 Pandemic: Should We Stop, Freeze, or Continue?
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...
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King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
2020-06-01
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-e5cf0fd42ca840629f15cef82f93bcae2023-01-02T22:27:09ZengKing Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health SciencesHealth Professions Education2452-30112020-06-0162123125Postgraduate Medical Training and COVID-19 Pandemic: Should We Stop, Freeze, or Continue?Ali H. Algiraigri0Department of Hematology, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, 22252, Saudi ArabiaWhile 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.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452301120300377EducationAssessmentPostgraduate trainingCOVID-19 |
| spellingShingle | Ali H. Algiraigri Postgraduate Medical Training and COVID-19 Pandemic: Should We Stop, Freeze, or Continue? Health Professions Education Education Assessment Postgraduate training COVID-19 |
| title | Postgraduate Medical Training and COVID-19 Pandemic: Should We Stop, Freeze, or Continue? |
| title_full | Postgraduate Medical Training and COVID-19 Pandemic: Should We Stop, Freeze, or Continue? |
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| title_short | Postgraduate Medical Training and COVID-19 Pandemic: Should We Stop, Freeze, or Continue? |
| title_sort | postgraduate medical training and covid 19 pandemic should we stop freeze or continue |
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