key: cord-0813849-7x6amub4 authors: Sia, Ching-Hui; Tan, Benjamin Yong-Qiang; Ooi, Shirley Beng Suat title: Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on postgraduate medical education in a Singaporean academic medical institution date: 2020-05-28 journal: Korean J Med Educ DOI: 10.3946/kjme.2020.157 sha: b71feaa85be2008a8d0b71155036088139a15d4a doc_id: 813849 cord_uid: 7x6amub4 nan There has also been an impact on trainees in terms of good assessment, and how it can best be done [7] . Finally, it is important for medical educators to consider the mental and emotional well-being of residents. COVID-19 can cause significant psychological impact on residents [8] . Prior to the pandemic, resident burnout levels have already been reported to be high [9] . There is a need to implement preventive measures to prevent burnout as the pandemic is projected to last at Balancing service and education in residency training: a logical fallacy Using videoconferencing to deliver anatomy teaching to medical students on clinical placements Twelve tips for teaching using videoconferencing Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine cancels all final clinical exams due to COVID-19 Competencybased education calls for programmatic assessment: but what does this look like in practice? The use of a portfolio in postgraduate medical education -reflect, assess and account, one for each or all in one? GMS Criteria for good assessment: consensus statement and recommendations from the Ottawa Sia et al : COVID-19 and postgraduate medical education in Singapore Psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care workers in Singapore Resident physician burnout: insights from a Canadian multispecialty survey Teaching teamwork in medical education Acknowledgements: None.Funding: No funding was obtained for this study. No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.Author contributions: CHS and BYQT conceptualized the work, collected data and interpreted the data. All authors were involved in drafting the article and critical revision of the article. SBSO supervised the work overall. All authors gave final approval for this version of the paper to be published.