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Restructuring of a General Surgery Residency Program in an Epicenter of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic : Lessons From New York City
Jackly M. Juprasert
1 ,
Katherine D. Gray
1 ,
Maureen D. Moore
1 ,
Lama Obeid
1 ,
Alexander W. Peters
1 ,
David Fehling
1 ,
Thomas J. Fahey
1 ,
Heather L. Yeo
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July 07 2020
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Abstract
On March 1, 2020, the first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was confirmed
in New York, New York. Since then, the city has emerged as an epicenter for the ongoing
pandemic in the US. To meet the anticipated demand caused by the predicted surge of
patients with COVID-19, the Department of Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill
Cornell Medicine developed and executed an emergent restructuring of general surgery
resident teams and educational infrastructure. The restructuring of surgical services
described in this Special Communication details the methodology used to safely deploy
the necessary amount of the resident workforce to support pandemic efforts while maintaining
staffing for emergency surgical care, limiting unnecessary exposure of residents to
infection risk, effectively placing residents in critical care units, and maintaining
surgical education and board eligibility for the training program as a whole.