Impact of COVID-19 on Emergency Medicine Residency Programs

Authors and Disclosures

Muhammad Waseem, MD, MS*^†‡, Nidhi Garg, MD^§¶, Bernard P. Chang, MD, PhD^||, Juan Acosta, DO, MS^#**, John DeAngelis, MD, RDMS^††, Mary E. McLean, MD^‡‡, Laura D. Melville, MD, MS^†¶¶, Timothy Pistor, BS^¶¶, Kaushal H. Shah, MD^†, JoAnne Tarantelli, BS^¶¶, Susan M. Wojcik, PhD, ATC^|||| and James Gerard Ryan, MD^#

*Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Department of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Bronx, New York
^†Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, New York, New York
^‡New York's Medical College, Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Valhalla, New York
^§Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York
^¶South Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bay Shore, New York
^||Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, New York
^#Saint Catherine of Siena Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Smithtown, New York
**New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Glen Head, New York
^††University of Rochester, Department of Emergency Medicine, Rochester, New York
^‡‡St. John's Riverside Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonkers, New York
^§§New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brooklyn, New York
^¶¶New York Chapter American College of Emergency Physicians, Webster, New York
^||||SUNY Upstate Medical University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Syracuse, New York

Address for Correspondence
Muhammad Waseem, MD, MS, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Department of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, 234 E 149th Street, Bronx, NY 10451. Email: Muhammad.waseem@nychhs.org.

Conflicts of Interest
By the WestJEM article submission agreement, all authors are required to disclose all affiliations, funding sources and financial or management relationships that could be perceived as potential sources of bias. No author has professional or financial relationships with any companies that are relevant to this study. There are no conflicts of interest or sources of funding to declare.

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Population Health Research Capsule

What do we already know about this issue?

COVID-19 significantly disrupted hospital clinical operations in New York State—the first and among the largest of the United States epicenters.

What was the research question?

How did the first pandemic surge impact New York State EM residency program education, training, research, and wellness?

What was the major finding of the study?

Programs adopted virtual conferencing, canceled clinical rotations and research, and instituted changes to wellness initiatives.

How does this improve population health?

Residency is crucial for training proficient physicians. Studying pandemic impacts equips educators to maintain high-quality training in the face of such disasters.