| Literature DB >> 33529059 |
Robert M Stern1, M Dror Michaelson2, Erica L Mayer3, Aric D Parnes1, Annemarie E Fogerty2, Ann S LaCasce3, Ryan D Nipp2.
Abstract
The coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic has affected graduate medical education training programs, including hematology-oncology fellowship programs, both across the United States and abroad. Within the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Mass General Brigham hematology-oncology fellowship program, fellowship leadership had to quickly reorganize the program's clinical, educational, and research structure to minimize the risk of COVID-19 spread to our patients and staff, allow fellows to assist in the care of patients with COVID-19, maintain formal didactics despite physical distancing, and ensure the mental and physical well-being of fellows. Following the first wave of patients with COVID-19, we anonymously surveyed the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Mass General Brigham first-year fellows to explore their perceptions regarding what the program did well and what could have been improved in the COVID-19 response. In this article, we present the feedback from our fellows and the lessons we learned as a program from this feedback. To our knowledge, this represents the first effort in the hematology-oncology literature to directly assess a hematology-oncology program's overall response to COVID-19 through direct feedback from fellows.Entities:
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Year: 2021 PMID: 33529059 PMCID: PMC8457796 DOI: 10.1200/OP.20.00894
Source DB: PubMed Journal: JCO Oncol Pract ISSN: 2688-1527