In the setting of COVID-19, neurology residents have not only had to change the way they trained but have had to adapt and learn on the front lines of a pandemic intensive care, infection control, and respiratory interventions—at considerable risk to their own health. Here they share what they've learned and how they've managed to get through it.
Years from now, neurologists who are currently in residencies and fellowships will say, “I trained during COVID-19,” much like generations before them refer to training during the Vietnam War or the years before residency work-hour restrictions were mandated. The pandemic has, and continues, to signify a set of challenges unique to trainees who endure particularly turbulent times.
Not only did the pandemic change their mode of education, introducing virtual lectures and e-learning modules, but programs converted to telemedicine care almost overnight, in-person conferences came to an end, and interviews for fellowships and jobs were conducted by video.
At the same time, this younger workforce was deployed to difference between computer engineering and computer science units, given a crash course in intensive care, infection control, and respiratory interventions, asked to aid patients in holding deathbed conversations with family—all the while they risked exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus themselves. Neurology Today spoke to several neurology residents who shared how the pandemic has affected their lives, perspectives on their work, and their place in the field.
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