IBEROAMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 01 (2021) 1-2 Journal homepage: www.iberoamericanjm.tk Editorial COVID-19 pandemic and medical resident education Eduardo Esteban-Zubero a,* a Emergency Department, Hospital San Pedro, Logroño, Spain ARTICLE INFO Article history: Keywords: Received 21 January 2021 Medical resident Received in revised form 26 January 2021 COVID-19 Accepted 27 January 2021 Medical education © 2021 The Authors. Published by Iberoamerican Journal of Medicine. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Esteban-Zubero E. COVID-19 and medical resident education. Iberoam J Med. 2021;3(1):1-2. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4473216. The new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic is spreading with video content with specialized procedures and surgery throughout the world due to continuous human-to-human tutorials [4], in addition to web conference platforms or transmission, constituting a worrying public health webinars used to provide teaching seminars and interact problem [1]. Among the health personnel are medical with the tutor or speaker, achieving a global dissemination residents, fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, of knowledge with update topics realted to COVID-19 and most of the hospitals that host these doctors-in-training are specialties [3, 5]. However, these systems cannot replace care centers for patients infected with COVID-19. Due to the learning of skills that is only possible in operating the need to expand resources, residents are frequently used rooms or performing procedures [3, 5, 6]. in the front line, causing a deficit in clinical, surgical and Therefore, it is important to try to maintain a training academic activities [2-4]. Added to this is the suspension of strategy at this time, extracting for the future the benefits non-urgent surgical interventions or services such as that online teaching can bring. The basic points should be: consultations, as a result of the need to create new spaces - Patient safety. in hospitals for the care of patients affected by COVID-19 - Safety of resident doctors. and as a prevention strategy [3, 5]. All this causes a - Continuous provision of the necessary care according to problem in the training of these professionals, reporting specialty. that up to 71% of residents believe that their training will - Sustainability of the residency program. be affected and limited as a result of the pandemic [6]. - Flexibility to make changes to the program according to Now, despite the limitations, academic training is partially the country's public health circumstances. maintained thanks to the use of technology with the - Organization, integration and collaboration between internet applying social networks. Educational platforms training institutions and interested parties. * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] ISSN: 2695-5075 / © 2021 The Authors. Published by Iberoamerican Journal of Medicine. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/). http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4473216 2 IBEROAMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 01 (2021) 1-2 It should not be forgotten that the professionals who are 1. REFERENCES trained today are the doctors who will sustain the health system in the future. Providing correct training is crucial to 1. Li H, Liu SM, Yu XH, Tang SL, Tang CK. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): current status and future perspectives. Int J Antimicrob Agents. ensure the sustainability of the healthcare system in the 2020;55(5):105951. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.105951. future. 2. Hau HM, Weitz J, Bork U. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Student and Resident Teaching and Training in Surgical Oncology. J Clin Med. 2020;9(11):3431. doi: 10.3390/jcm9113431. 3. Potts JR 3rd. Residency and Fellowship Program Accreditation: Effects of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic. J Am Coll Surg. 2020;230(6):1094-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.03.026. 4. Porpiglia F, Checcucci E, Amparore D, Verri P, Campi R, Claps F, et al. Slowdown of urology residents' learning curve during the COVID-19 emergency. BJU Int. 2020;125(6):E15-E17. doi: 10.1111/bju.15076. 5. Giordano L, Cipollaro L, Migliorini F, Maffulli N. Impact of Covid-19 on undergraduate and residency training. Surgeon. 2020:S1479-666X(20)30169- 4. doi: 10.1016/j.surge.2020.09.014. 6. Gupta T, Nazif TM, Vahl TP, Ahmad H, Bortnick AE, Feit F, et al. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on interventional cardiology fellowship training in the New York metropolitan area: A perspective from the United States epicenter. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2020:10.1002/ccd.28977. doi: 10.1002/ccd.28977.