Background The COVID-19 pandemic has upended graduate medical education globally.
We investigated the COVID-19 impact on learning inputs and expected learning outputs of …

Introduction COVID-19 generated a system-wide shock causing an unbalanced equilibrium
between producing adequately trained physicians and meeting extraordinary operational …

Purpose: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had far reaching impacts on
all aspects of the healthcare system, including plastic surgery training. Due to reduction in …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unpreceded changes to medical
education. Medical students interested in urology and neurosurgery have reported concerns …

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to marked
changes in surgical training, including that of plastic surgery residents. We performed a …

Introduction Recent studies revealed that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) negatively
impacted residency programs worldwide, particularly procedure-based programs. However …

Background: Restrictions placed during the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent viral spread led
to substantial changes in surgical resident education. The aim of this study was to assess …

Background: The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound
effect on surgical training programs, reflecting decreases in elective surgical cases and …

Nowadays didactic and surgical activities for residents in the surgery field are less and less
due to an increasing burden of documentation and “non-educational work.” Considering the …

We have recently investigated the safety and effectiveness of extrinsic compression on lower
limb free flaps 1 and in this literature review explored the use of negative pressure therapy …