Society of Gynecologic Oncology recommendations for fellowship education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: Innovating programs to optimize trainee success

Abstract

The novel coronavirus pandemic has disrupted medical education at all levels. • Fellowship programs must adapt to the realities of social distancing, workforce redeployments, and laboratory closures. • The integration of teleconferencing into clinical practice and learning provides both challenges and growth opportunities. • Program directors should be aware of new stressors our fellows, particularly underrepresented minorities, are facing. • Programs should take advantage of the opportunity to rethink fellowship education and the needs of our recent graduates.

Gynecologic Oncology fellowship recruitment in the virtual era: An evaluation of program websites and survey of applicant preferences

“…Our results suggest that programs continue to work to provide comprehensive program information on websites and consider including specific clinical detail components as listed above. Despite suggestions that videos of programs, cities, or personnel could enhance virtual recruitment, respondents in our study did not find it very or extremely important to have videos as a resource during their application process ( Ferriss et al, 2021 ).…”

The impact of COVID-19 on O&G trainees; where are we now?

“…The pandemic had fundamentally changed the daily practice of medicine in three ways: telemedicine was rapidly adopted; hospitals increased their threshold for urgent admissions and planned elective procedures were halted (Ferriss et al, 2021). Some of these practices, in particular virtual consultations, are likely to remain the "norm" for many years to come and may inadvertently have a negative impact on gynaecological training (NHS England 2019-NHS long term plan).…”

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on general surgery residency training

“…Cerrahi asistanların teknik yeterliliğin gelişimini sağlamak için simülatör eğitim modelleri kullanılabilir (12). Ayrıca literatürde video tabanlı cerrahi becerileri eğitimlerinin kullanımı, çevrimiçi öğrenme modülleri ve sanal gerçeklik kullanılarak yapılacak eğitimlerin planlanması gibi alternatif eğitim yöntemlerinin kullanımının artırılması önerilmiştir (13,14).…”