Table 1.

Recommendations for Educational Programs

Effective communication of risk to house staff

• Acknowledge the unknown

• Do not overly reassure house staff

• Ensure centralized, efficient system of information dissemination

• Communicate information on infection control protocols; changes to educational activities; and the status of the health care crisis in the community, the hospitals, and the health care workers

• Disseminate information in a variety of forms (e-mails, websites, small group discussions, and educational rounds)

Strong leadership

• Provide support and the opportunity to discuss these concerns

• Coordination of response

• Ensure collaboration

Educational activities

• Develop creative mechanisms to continue educational rounds (seminars over the Internet, the use of video or audio conferences, and facilitation and encouragement of self-directed learning)