Residency and Fellowship Program Accreditation: Effects of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic.
Potts, John R;
journal of the american college of surgeons2020
273
potts2020residencyjournal
Abstract
The United States is now in the grip of pandemic. Surgical services have been severely disrupted and will be for at least several months. The pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to surgical residency and fellowship programs. In turn, there are unprecedented challenges to the process of accrediting those programs. This article delineates some of those challenges and the responses to them which are known, to date.