Effects of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on orthopedic residency program in the seventh largest city of the world: Recommendations from a resource-constrained setting
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Arif Ali; Marij Zahid; Naveed Baloch; Shahryar Noordin
- Source
- Annals of Medicine and Surgery
- Subject
- Medical education
medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Isolation (health care)
Distancing
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Pandemic
Health care
medicine
Outpatient clinic
China
Pandemics
Orthopedic surgeons
business.industry
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Coronavirus
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Orthopedic surgery
Perspective
Quarantine
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
Surgery
Medical emergency
business
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2049-0801
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has hit the entire world hard. Since its inception from Wuhan China the whole world is affected now. Health care facilities and workers are overwhelmed and the situation is changing on daily basis. With the changes in the dynamics of the hospitals, residency and fellowships training programs have also suffered undoubtedly. Due to decreased elective cases and outpatient clinics surgical training gets compromised, however on the other side this physical distancing and isolation have proven to be effective measures in controlling the disease. In this article we share our experience of effect of COVID-19 pandemic on our orthopedic residency program and how we coped along with it. We also discussed some way forwards in the article.