Abstract
ABSTRACT
 Objective: To assess how the COVID-19 pandemic affects surgical residents in Mayo hospital Lahore in regard to their training and social life.
 Study Design: Observational Study.
 Place and duration of study: Mayo Hospital Lahore, Four months ( May 2020 to August 2020)
 Methodology: A study was conducted using an online questionnaire on Google docs® containing 25 questions to be filled by residents of surgery and allied surgery of Mayo Hospital Lahore. Residents of general surgery and allied surgical departments working during the COVID-19 pandemic were included in the study. SPSS version 26 was used to analyze. A p-value≤of 0.05 was considered significant.
 Results: One hundred and two residents responded to our questionnaire from which 83(81.4%) respondents were male and 19(18.6%) were female. Out of all, 87(85.3%) had a fear of contracting COVID-19. 41(40.2%) get infected with COVID-19 from the hospital and 61(59.8%) remained healthy. In all this scenario of the pandemic of covid-19, 95(93.1%) residents thought that their training suffered a lot during this period as compared to 07(6.9%) residents who think that their training does not suffer significantly during the pandemic. During this pandemic, OPD services were suspended so 79(77.5%) residents had no exposure to a variety of cases, and 75(73.5%) think management in a surgical emergency is up to mark. Regression analysis showed that training of residents affected due to a reduction in bed-side teaching (p-value=0.024), decrease in duty hours (p-value=0.005), and reduction in the number of elective surgeries (p-value=0.045)
 Conclusion: During the pandemic of COVID-19, surgical resident of Mayo hospital had fear of contracting the disease and carrying to their families. Overall they think that their training has been affected by this pandemic due to shut down of outpatient department, elective lists, and bedside teaching in spite of their interest in online teaching.
Highlights
The 2019 to 2020 coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)[1]
In all this scenario of pandemic of COVID-19, 95(93.1%) residents thought that their training suffered a lot during this period as compared to 07(6.9%) resident who thought that their training was not suffered significantly during the pandemic
Among them 85.3 % had a fear of contracting COVID19. 92.2% had fear to transmit disease to their family. 41.2% get infected with COVID -19 from hospital. 62.7% thought that telemedicine was helpful for the management of patients
Summary
The 2019 to 2020 coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)[1]. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30th January 2020, and a pandemic on the 11th of March 20203. As of May 1, 2020, more than 3.3 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported in 187 countries and territories, resulting in more than 235,000 deaths[4]. The novel coronavirus and associated COVID19 are spreading rapidly across the globe with rapid growth in Pakistan. The consequences on general surgery departments are primarily indirect, with the termination of all non-essential general surgical treatment being common. This is essential for systemsustaining isolation and resource reallocation steps, Pak Postgrad Med J Oct. This is essential for systemsustaining isolation and resource reallocation steps, Pak Postgrad Med J Oct. – Dec. 2020 Vol 31 No 4 www.ppmj.org.pk 195
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