The effect of the measures taken during the coronavirus pandemic on specialty trainees in obstetrics and gynaecology in the United Kingdom: an online questionnaire survey in one region

The Impact of COVID-19 on Postgraduate Training of Doctors in the United Kingdom: A Narrative Review

“…Of the studies included in the review, 17 discussed the results of surveys completed by trainees and distributed by a number of different organizations [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Two of the surveys [2,3] were completed by foundation doctors, a doctor who will be in their first two years of working following graduation, within a single region in the UK.…”

“…Two of the surveys [2,3] were completed by foundation doctors, a doctor who will be in their first two years of working following graduation, within a single region in the UK. The remaining 15 studies [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] were national surveys of trainees within a single specialty, facilitated by the training bodies responsible for the training within each of those specialties. These studies produced quantitative data from the answers to the survey questions and qualitative data as they included an option for free text responses, allowing trainees to express specific concerns or impacts that they felt.…”

“…The impact of organized formal teaching being changed to a virtual platform was investigated by one study [24]. Surgery was the specialty that had the greatest number of studies ( 14) on the topic [4,5,[8][9][10][11][14][15][16][17][18][19]21,23]. Four were not associated with any particular specialty [2,3,22,24].…”

“…The pandemic did not only have an impact on the learning experiences of trainees but also negatively impacted their well-being and morale. This has been a common theme that has come out from the surveys that were conducted across all the specialties [ 4 , 16 , 17 ]. Previous research has already shown that trainees have a higher rate of burnout in comparison to their senior colleagues prior to the pandemic [ 37 ].…”