Integrating virtual EEG sessions into fellowship programs during the COVID-19 pandemic

作者：Christine Van Winssen, Paulina Kyriakopoulos, Farah El Sadi, Arezoo Rezazadeh, T. Fantaneanu · 发表于：Clinical Neurophysiology Practice · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1016/j.cnp.2022.03.001 · 被引用次数：1 · 研究领域：Medicine

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnp.2022.03.001 2467-981X/ 2022 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativ In March 2020, the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic changed not only the way in which clinical medicine is practiced and delivered, but also the format and perceived quality of medical education. Epilepsy training programs have been particularly impacted in the context of significant reductions in EEG/EMU availability (Albert et al., 2020). A recent survey of Epilepsy Fellowship programs in the United States revealed that the impact of the pandemic on training was rated as moderate-severe by 30% of program directors and 49% fellows. A further 20% of program directors and fellows felt as though additional training was necessary prior to graduation. Lower levels of fellow satisfaction were correlated with perceived impact on education (Nakhleh et al., 2021). As a result of social distancing and isolation requirements, there has been an increasing reliance on telemedicine and virtual learning, with varying degrees of success and user satisfaction (Cross et al., 2021). Fortunately, subspeciality programs with an emphasis on visually based learning, such as EEG reading, lend themselves particularly well to the virtual format. To our knowledge, however, there have been no reports to date of such programs being offered, either in Canada or internationally. While the majority of EEG reading is typic...