Department of Urology, Federico Abete Hospital Malvinas Argentinas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Office of Residents and Young Urologists of the American Confederation of Urology - CAU, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Int Braz J Urol. 2020 Jul;46(suppl.1):165-169. doi: 10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2020.S120.
Since World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic, urology services have developed strategies to prioritize and not to differ urgent and oncological patient's medical attention, in order to optimize resources and decrease infection probability among staff and patients. This unprecedented situation has generated a decrease in assistance and academic activities in most medical residences. The aim of this manuscript is to evaluate the impact of this health crisis on training programs through a survey addressed to urology medical residents.
Cross sectional designed study, with multiple-choice non validated survey answered online by residents. Questionnaire was developed through the CAU EDUCACION platform.
A total of 148 responses from 18 countries coming from Latin America and Spain answering the survey. Of total, 82% answered that the activity of their urology department was significantly reduced, attending only urgent surgical pathologies, 15 % that, the urology activity has been closed completely and the staff was assigned to COVID-19 patients care, 3% continue with the regular clinic activity. Likewise, 75% stated that their surgical training has been completely affected, 93% receive urological information through tools such as Skype, ZOOM meeting, Cisco Webex, being Webinar modality the most used. Despite technological boom, 65% answered their academic training has been partially or completely affected. Most of the surveyed residents consider that period of residence should be extended to retrieve the educational targets.
This unprecedented reality is negatively impacting the heterogeneous residency programs that American Confederation of Urology (CAU) nucleates. It is necessary to continue with technological innovation and allocate time and resources to easily generate accessible tools to favor the training of future urologists.
自世界卫生组织（WHO）宣布 COVID-19 为全球大流行以来，泌尿外科服务部门已制定策略，优先考虑并确保紧急和肿瘤患者得到医疗关注，以优化资源并降低员工和患者之间的感染概率。这种前所未有的情况导致大多数医学住院医师的援助和学术活动减少。本文旨在通过向泌尿科住院医师进行调查，评估这场卫生危机对培训计划的影响。
这是一项横断面设计研究，通过在线回答多项选择的非验证性调查问卷来进行。问卷是通过 CAU EDUCACION 平台开发的。
共收到来自拉丁美洲和西班牙的 18 个国家的 148 名住院医师的答复。其中，82%的人表示其泌尿外科的活动明显减少，仅治疗紧急外科病理；15%的人表示泌尿外科的活动已完全关闭，工作人员被分配到 COVID-19 患者的护理中；3%的人继续进行常规门诊活动。同样，75%的人表示他们的外科培训受到了完全影响，93%的人通过 Skype、ZOOM 会议、Cisco Webex 等工具接收泌尿科信息，网络研讨会是最常用的模式。尽管技术蓬勃发展，但 65%的人回答说他们的学术培训受到了部分或完全影响。大多数接受调查的住院医师认为应该延长住院时间以实现教育目标。
这种前所未有的现实情况正在对美国泌尿外科协会（CAU）聚集的异质住院医师计划产生负面影响。有必要继续进行技术创新，并分配时间和资源来轻松生成易于访问的工具，以促进未来泌尿科医生的培训。
