Published in:
01-09-2020 | Endoscopy | FELLOWS AND YOUNG GIS SECTION
COVID-2019.2 Reboot: Returning a GI Fellowship to Pre-pandemic Practices
Authors:
Sonali Palchaudhuri, Joel Gabre, Stacey Prenner, Steven Solga
Published in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
|
Issue 9/2020
Login to get access
Excerpt
Throughout March 2020, the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic forced residency and fellowship programs across the country to re-evaluate their training structures and overhaul how the program performed teaching and clinical elements. Like others, our gastroenterology (GI) fellowship program at the University of Pennsylvania, as part of an academic medical center, aimed for a rapid response that minimized viral exposure while maintaining clinical coverage and trainee education. We earlier described our program’s response and early lessons learned when adapting to the novel virus [
1]. Subsequently, the “new normal” became a system in which we downsized the inpatient consultation services, embraced virtual forums for educational activities, and minimized fellows participating in endoscopy. …