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authors: Garg, Tushar; Shrigiriwar, Apurva; Patel, Kirang
title: Trainee education during COVID-19
date: 2020-06-17
journal: Neuroradiology
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-020-02478-w
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doc_id: 1045879
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What are we doing?

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has developed a 2-week virtual curriculum for medical students which includes online modules, reading assignments, and online scenarios to incorporate evidence-based strategies for imaging services. This has provided a curriculum that can be used by any institutions that have had to cancel medical student electives, in attempt to continue promoting radiology education [2] . Some residency programs have started using RadPrimer to serve as a structured curriculum for residents, where they can be assigned different sections to study according to a fixed schedule [3] . Instead of the in-person conferences, programs have also started using various virtual applications (Zoom, Microsoft teams, WebEx) to conduct online didactics. The American Institute for Radiologic Pathology (AIRP), which used to conduct an in-person course, has also switched over to a virtual platform to facilitate social distancing recommendations.

Radiology societies like the European Society of Radiology (ESR), European Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ESHNR), European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR), British Society of Head and Neck Imaging (BSHNI), and American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology (ASPNR) have helped to fill the gap created by the loss of didactic sessions by providing free online weekly lectures by various international experts, and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Neuroradiology (ANZSNR) has temporarily provided free access to their recorded lectures from their 2019 meeting. A wide variety of online resources have also been available to trainees which include, but are not limited to, ASNR neurocurriculum live, LearnNeuroradiology videos, educational videos by the American Society of Functional Neuroradiology (ASFNR) for their members, and MRI Online videos.

Social media has also served as a useful resource for learning during this pandemic. The ASNR, ASPNR, and American Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ASHNR) are posting various cases of the week on twitter. Journals, such as the American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR), are also regularly sharing twitter posts of their classic cases, case of the week and case of the month.

Even though the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the education of trainees at every level, efforts by the whole radiological community to provide various educational resources have helped prevent deficits in trainee education. The lessons learned during this pandemic may represent an enduring transformation in medical education for years to come.

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