• Stephanie Detterline, Heather Hartman-Hall, Katherine Garbow, Himanshu Rawal, David Blackwood, Gregory Nizialek, and Zayd Nashaat.
• MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, MedStar Health Internal Medicine Residency, Baltimore, MD, US.
• J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect. 2020 Oct 29; 10 (6): 504-507.

BackgroundIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic, internal medicine residencies have had to develop new teaching strategies and attend to wellness concerns. Providing front-line care for patients in a time of widespread crisis while maintaining attention to training has created unprecedented challenges.ObjectiveOur large community hospital based internal medicine residency sought to develop and evaluate a crisis response to the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic to meet our residents' educational and wellness needs.MethodsIn March 2020, our residency developed a crisis plan for functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic. A brief survey was sent via email to our 149 residents to obtain their evaluation of how well their needs were being met by this response.Results92 (62%) residents completed the survey. 88% indicated their well-being needs were well met. Other components were also rated as successful: effective communication (86%), scheduling/staffing (78%), preparing residents for clinical service (77%), and educational needs (76%).ConclusionsOur residency crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic was favorably evaluated by our residents in meeting their training and well-being needs. In future work we plan to seek longer-term and more objective measures to assess how residents fare during these challenging times, and to use lessons learned to prepare for future crisis situations.© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

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