• Elvira Pereda, De HertStefanSDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University, Belgium., El TahanMohamedMAnesthesiology Department, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Department of Anaesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care, College of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt., and Carolina S Romero.
• Anesthesiology and Critical Care Department at Hospital General Universitario, Valencia, Spain.
• Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2023 Jun 1; 36 (3): 369375369-375.

Purpose Of ReviewIn this review, we want to collect all the adaptations that anaesthesiology training has faced because of the health crisis and social distancing measures resulting from coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19). We reviewed new teaching tools launched during the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide and particularly those implemented by the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) and the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (EACTAIC).Recent FindingsGlobally, COVID-19 has interrupted health services and all aspects of training programmes. These unprecedented changes have led to teaching and trainee support innovation tools, focusing on online learning and simulation programmes. Airway management, critical care and regional anaesthesia, have been enhanced during the pandemic, while there were major obstacles in paediatrics, obstetrics and pain medicine.SummaryThe COVID-19 pandemic has altered profoundly the functioning of health systems worldwide. Anaesthesiologists and trainees have fought on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19. As a result, training in anaesthesiology during the last 2 years has focused on managing patients in intensive care. New training programmes have been designed to continue teaching residents of this speciality, focusing on e-learning and advanced simulation. It is necessary to present a review describing the impact that this turbulent period has had on the different subsections of anaesthesiology and to review the innovative measures that have been implemented to address these possible deficits in education and training.Copyright © 2023 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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