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Starting Residency With Covid-19, Seena Khosravi, Ashish Sinha

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Introduction

By Dr. Ashish Sinha, MD, PhD, DABA, MBA, FASA

As a Program Director of a just established anesthesia program, one faces enough challenges. A curve ball that I was not expecting was one of my residents to inform me on July 3rd that he was feeling feverish with chills, had myalgia and a headache. First response in my mind, that I didn’t verbalize was, ”Anosmia too?” I arranged COVID testing ASAP in a drive-by setting, which we could avail immediately. My resident had driven from New Orleans, LA to Riverside, CA, making a few stops along the way, (food, …

Covid Intensive Care Unit Through The Eyes Of Ophthalmologists, Laura Drayer Turner, Dharshana Ramanathan, Sneha Melmane, Geeta Menon

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

The disproportionate impact of COVID on the mortality and morbidity of people of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds has been recognised and is under investigation. Here we present a different impact: that on the psyche. As three doctors of BAME heritage, we shared an experience of being redeployed from ophthalmology to the COVID Intensive Care Unit. We share our reflections on the experience and lessons learned.

Little Did We Know What We Are Preparing For: Virtual Interviews Before Covid-19, Alina Popa, Scott Kubomoto, Lorra Baldes

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Current circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic require residency programs to conduct virtual interviews. We draw upon our experience with virtual interviews from fall 2019, prior to COVID-19, and propose a potential implementation process for virtual interviewing strategies. We also describe potential pitfalls and strategies to mitigate them.

Covid-19 Era Requires Urgent Integration Of Virtual Reality Simulations In Medical Education, Halil Tekiner, Cemal Alper Kemaloglu, Achmet Ali Tsaous

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause an unprecedented level of disruption across every part of the globe. This disruption detrimentally affects the field of medical education; in particular, anatomical, surgical and clinical training, all which require hands-on experience. On the other hand, the pandemic not only brings new challenges in medical education but also opportunities for testing the validity of our old education paradigms and for developing the ability to embrace a rapid pace of change in better integrating new technologies in the medical curriculum. We contend that the future of medical education lies in the successful use of VR …

An Obstetrics And Gynecology Residency Program’S Approach To The Covid-19 Pandemic, Tiffany C. Chang, Brenda Nguyen, Chi Dola

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Background: The impact of COVID-19 on residency training nationwide has been substantial, and adapting to this unprecedented event has proven challenging for program directors throughout the United States. Here, the authors presented their initial experiences with restructuring an obstetrics and gynecology residency program during the pandemic. The authors outlined their strategies to maximize resident safety and address clinical care in outpatient and inpatient settings, resident education curriculum, resident wellness and consider the ethical dilemmas of health care providers during a pandemic.

Conclusion: With perspectives from other residency programs, the authors hope this review will serve as an initial building block …

A Perspective On Research, Education, Practice And Policy In The Covid-19 Era, Julie A. Jacko

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has unleashed a global health crisis, precipitating massive efforts aimed at understanding, preventing, preparing for, treating and responding to the novel coronavirus domestically and internationally. Given the profound and ongoing impact of COVID-19, the HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine organized this special issue of the journal as a mechanism for capturing groundbreaking studies, advances and perspectives that have the potential to shape health and health care for decades to come.