Official Title
Impact of Pandemic COVID-19 on Surgical Specialities Residents in Italy: an Italian Polispecialistic Society of Young Surgeons (S.P.I.G.C.) Survey
Brief Summary

The Coronavirus Emergency has severely affected Italian Healthcare National System. This event made it necessary to adopt extraordinary containment measures and to allocate extraordinary resources in Italian hospitals. In many centers routinely elective surgical activity has been decreased or even completely abolished. We believe that this exceptional condition is being consequently having a significant impact on surgical training programs.

Detailed Description

Purpose of this investigation, organized by the Italian Polispecialistic Society of Young
Surgeons (S.P.I.G.C.), is to establish the impact of COVID-19 emergency in the work and
training activities of Italian surgical residents.

There will be collected the residents' impressions by completing a survey on this topic. A
sub-analysis for each pandemic wave (first, second, third) will be done.

Completed
COVID

Behavioral: COVID-surgRES questionaire

The questionaire gives a multidimensional assessment of residents' impression with regard to impact of COVID emergency on Italian specialist training programs

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Residents in the following surgical specialities: cardiothoracic surgery, colon and
rectal surgery, general surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, gynecologic oncology,
neurological surgery, ophthalmic surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthopaedic
surgery, otorhinolaryngology, pediatric surgery, plastic and maxillofacial surgery,
urology, and vascular surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

- Undergratuated and postgraduated students

- Consultants in surgical areas

Eligibility Gender
All
Eligibility Age
Minimum: 18 Years ~ Maximum: N/A
Countries
Italy
Locations

U.O.C. Chirurgia Generale Universitaria "V. Bonomo"
Bari, Italy

Ospedale Perrino Asl Brindisi
Brindisi, Italy

Dipartimento di scienze mediche e chirurgiche, Università di Catanzaro
Catanzaro, Italy

Ospedale Policlinico San Martino
Genova, Italy

Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo-Forlanini
Roma, Italy

IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli
Roma, Italy

Ospedale Cristo re
Roma, Italy

Piazza della Vittoria 14 Studio Medico - Ginecologia e Ostetricia
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Keywords
resident wellness
surgical residency