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Being a Doctors in Trainingin times of COVID-19
Yassen Tcholakov – JDN Interim Chair
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Presentation plan
• The Junior Doctors Network• Being a Doctor in Training during COVID-19• My story• Outlook on the future
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The Junior Doctors Network
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What is the Junior DoctorsNetwork?
• JDN Mission– Empowering young physicians to work
together towards a healthier world,through advocacy, education andinternational collaboration
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What is the Junior Doctors Network?
• Founded in 2010: we are celebrating our 10-yearanniversary this fall!
• Working group of individual associate members ofthe WMA
• Open membership• Represents doctors within 10 years of graduation• Two in-person meetings per year (in normal times)• Monthly membership teleconference calls
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What does the JDN do?
• Meeting space for junior doctors with similarinterests in global health from across the world
• Contribution to the WMA policy work
• Representation of the WMA at global events
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Being a Doctor in Trainingduring COVID-19
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Impacts
• Increased workload• Exposure to disease• Changes to the type work• Decreased teaching / training• Changes to life plans
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Increased workload
“There is the potential for standard workinghours to be altered in these extenuatingcircumstances.”
“These shifts are harder than I cerebrallythought they would be” – Dr Anna Yap
Source: https://ama.com.au/article/ama-advocacy-support-doctors-training-during-covid-19-response
Source: https://www.ama-assn.org/residents-students/residency/residency-pandemic-how-covid-19-affecting-trainees
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Exposure to disease
“We know people in their 20s have anextremely low risk of getting viral pneumoniafrom coronavirus. They’re obviously a veryrobust group that can be used,”
-Dr Julian Rait, Australian Medical Association Victoria president
• Availability of PPE is also an issue
Source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-potential-solution-training-doctors-ready-to-join-fight-20200318-p54beg.html
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Changes to the type of work
“trainees may be asked to work outside oftheir usual clinical area/role or scope ofpractice”
• Also different worksettings
Source: Dr. Sejin Choi, presentation at theJDN Special Conference on COVID-19on April 15th 2020
Source: https://ama.com.au/article/ama-advocacy-support-doctors-training-during-covid-19-response
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Decreased teaching / training
“the cancellation of clerkships, which are necessary for bothskill acquisition as well as for relationship building, is aserious issue which students and medical schools must nowresolve”
“Our emergency medicine administration and programleadership are doing the best they can to make sure we canprotect our education, but that’s all in the setting in whichwe have the luxury to do that” – Dr Anna Yap
Source: https://www.cureus.com/articles/29902-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-medical-education
Source: https://www.ama-assn.org/residents-students/residency/residency-pandemic-how-covid-19-affecting-trainees
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Changes to life plans
• JDN members being unable to travel homewhile working in countries other than theirhome.
• Junior doctors unable to start residency /fellowship training due to border closures,licensing restrictions, etc.
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In summary
Stress, stress, stress
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And the random acts of kindness
Multiple source: see comments
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Outlook on the future
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Where are we now?
• Most of the world is now living in adisrupted state
• Changes have been “imposed”
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Where we are going
• COVID-19 is a systems disrupting event– Resetting of global value priorities– Just recovery / Green recovery
• Distributed globalization• Environmental / climate change impact
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Another way of putting it
Source: Dr. Madhukar Pai at Edinburgh Decolonizing Global Health Online Conference 2020 on April 24th 2020.
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“As we plan our recovery from the coronavirus pandemic,we have a profound opportunity to steer our world on amore sustainable and inclusive path – a path that tacklesclimate change, protects the environment, reversesbiodiversity loss and ensures the long-term health andsecurity of humankind.”
-António Guterres
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For more information about the JDN
https://www.wma.net/junior-doctors/
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