Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiology fellow echocardiography education at a large academic center

In response to COVID-19 pandemic state restrictions, our institution deferred elective procedures from 3/15/2020 to 6/13/2020, and removed cardiology fellows from the echocardiography rotation to staff clinical services. We assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fellow education and echocar...

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Published in:BMC medical education 2022-12, Vol.22 (1), p.863-863, Article 863
Main Authors: Varghese, Merilyn S, Strom, Jordan B, Kannam, Joseph P, Fostello, Sarah E, Riley, Marilyn F, Manning, Warren J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anesthesiology
Cardiology
Cardiology - education
Certification
Competence
Coronaviruses
Correlation
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Cross-sectional studies
Echocardiography
Education
Educational aspects
Epidemics
Fellowship
Fellowships
Humans
Influence
Internal Medicine
Internet
Internship and Residency
Medical education
Numbers
Pandemics
Review boards
State of emergency
Statistical Analysis
Study and teaching
Teaching Methods
Ultrasonic imaging
United States
Variance analysis
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Summary:In response to COVID-19 pandemic state restrictions, our institution deferred elective procedures from 3/15/2020 to 6/13/2020, and removed cardiology fellows from the echocardiography rotation to staff clinical services. We assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fellow education and echocardiography volumes. Our institutional database was used to examine volumes of transthoracic (TTE), stress (SE), and transesophageal echocardiograms (TEE) from 7/1/2018 to 10/10/2020. Study volumes were compared in three intervals: pre-pandemic (7/1/2018- 3/14/2020), pandemic (3/15/2020-6/13/2020), and pandemic recovery (6/14/2020-10/10/2020). We examined weekly number of TTEs performed or interpreted by cardiology fellows during the study period, and compared these to the two previous academic years. Weekly TTE volume declined by 54% during the pandemic, and increased by 99% during pandemic recovery, (p 
ISSN:1472-6920
1472-6920
DOI:10.1186/s12909-022-03880-z