Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2-2020
Manuscript Version
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Abstract
On Tuesday, March 10, 2020, an institutional e-mail sent from our hospital president confirmed the first 3 cases of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in our healthcare system. Twenty-four hours later, we learned that one of our co-fellows had been exposed and was forced into self-quarantine. Suddenly, what had seemed to be a distant problem hit close to home. As we sat around the “fellows’ room” (socially distanced as much as possible in the luxurious expanse that is common to fellows’ quarters), the uncertainty about our future raised several questions. How would we be impacted as we journeyed through this global pandemic? Thankfully, our colleague’s test was negative, but the episode sparked contemplation. We were worried about our loved ones while absorbing the jarring effects of the pandemic on our clinical and endoscopic training as well as our in-person didactic learning. Herein, we share some thoughts and perspectives regarding the impact this has on our personal and professional lives. Additionally, we propose ways to maximize our educational and clinical growth as gastroenterology fellows while we continue caring for patients during this difficult time.
Keywords
COVID-19 (disease), communicable diseases, coronavirus infections
Publication Title
GIE Journal
Rights
© 2020 by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
Recommended Citation
Shah, R., Satyavada, S., Ismail, M., Kurin, M., Smith, Z. L., Cooper, G. S., & Chak, A. (2020). Covid-19 Pandemic Through the Lens of A Gastroenterology Fellow: Looking for the Silver Lining. GIE Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2020.03.3852