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Postgraduate Medical Training and COVID-19 Pandemic: Should We Stop, Freeze, or Continue?
1Department of Hematology, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, 22252, Saudi Arabia.
Insights
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns negatively impact postgraduate medical training (PGMT) by reducing clinical cases and disrupting examinations. This study addresses critical questions for trainees and stakeholders navigating these challenges.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Public Health
Background:
- Global lockdowns implemented to curb COVID-19 transmission present unprecedented challenges.
- Postgraduate medical training (PGMT) is significantly affected by these public health measures.
Abstract:
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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