COVID-19 pandemic: an Italian single institution's experience and lessons learned by public health residents' workforce.
Asymptomatic Infections
COVID-19
/ diagnosis
COVID-19 Testing
Case Management
/ organization & administration
Emergency Medical Services
/ organization & administration
Health Personnel
Health Services Needs and Demand
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient
/ prevention & control
Internship and Residency
Italy
Mass Screening
Outpatient Clinics, Hospital
/ organization & administration
Pandemics
Population Surveillance
Preoperative Care
Public Health
/ education
Public Health Administration
Quarantine
Role
SARS-CoV-2
Self-Assessment
Software Design
Tertiary Care Centers
/ organization & administration
Workforce
training
COVID-19
education
hospital management
public health
reorganization
residents
Journal
Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunita
ISSN: 1120-9135
Titre abrégé: Ann Ig
Pays: Italy
ID NLM: 9002865
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Historique:
pubmed:
11
2
2021
medline:
17
7
2021
entrez:
10
2
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We hereby provide a systematic description of the response actions in which the public health residents' workforce was pivotal, in a large tertiary hospital. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic has posed incredible challenges to healthcare workers worldwide. The residents have been affected by an almost complete upheaval of the previous setting of activities, with a near total focus on service during the peak of the emergency. In our Institution, residents in public health were extensively involved in leading activities in the management of Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic. The key role played by residents in the response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic is highlighted by the diversity of contributions provided, from cooperation in the rearrangement of hospital paths for continuity of care, to establishing and running new services to support healthcare professionals. Overall, they constituted a workforce that turned essential in governing efficiently such a complex scenario. Despite the difficulties posed by the contingency and the sacrifice of many training activities, Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic turned out to be a unique opportunity of learning and measuring one's capabilities and limits in a context of absolute novelty and uncertainty.
Sections du résumé
Methods
We hereby provide a systematic description of the response actions in which the public health residents' workforce was pivotal, in a large tertiary hospital.
Background
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic has posed incredible challenges to healthcare workers worldwide. The residents have been affected by an almost complete upheaval of the previous setting of activities, with a near total focus on service during the peak of the emergency. In our Institution, residents in public health were extensively involved in leading activities in the management of Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic.
Results
The key role played by residents in the response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic is highlighted by the diversity of contributions provided, from cooperation in the rearrangement of hospital paths for continuity of care, to establishing and running new services to support healthcare professionals. Overall, they constituted a workforce that turned essential in governing efficiently such a complex scenario.
Conclusions
Despite the difficulties posed by the contingency and the sacrifice of many training activities, Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic turned out to be a unique opportunity of learning and measuring one's capabilities and limits in a context of absolute novelty and uncertainty.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33565569
doi: 10.7416/ai.2021.2438
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM