Table 2.

Implementing Educational Innovations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Educational Innovations	Challenge	General Solutions	Specific Strategies	Online Resources
Clearly communicate learning goals: outbreaks alter learning goals by changing educational opportunities	How to minimize viral exposure and protect surgical resident workforce?	General Surgery (University of Washington): • Deconstruct workflow to larger parallel teams	Parallel Working Groups: • Inpatient, operative, and clinical care teams • 1-week rotations each	Critical care resources for ICU and hospitalists: Society of Critical Care Medicine (www.sccm.org)
Promote understanding and retention: outbreaks can affect understanding of new information	How to help residents understand the impact of local disease transmission prior to widespread testing?	Internal Medicine (University of Alabama at Birmingham): • Early adoption of daily communication and virtual meetings to address residents' concerns	Transparent Town Halls: • Virtual meeting where COVID-19 positive residents shared experiences • Daily e-mails for hospital specific metrics	Podcasts for internal medicine: The Curbsiders (www.thecurbsiders.com) Podcasts for narrative medicine: The Nocturnists (www.thenocturnists.com)
Advocate self-directed learning: outbreak stress decreases focus on learning	How to adhere to social distancing educating remotely and providing excellent patient care?	General Urology (Cleveland Clinic Akron): • Redistribute workflow for consults and redesign academic curricula	Triage Urgent Consults: • Prioritize consults to urgent versus outpatient • Schedule daily remote learning sessions	Clinical problem solving: HumanDx (www.humandx.org) Virtual Morning Report (www.clinicalproblemsolving.org)
Continue to provide feedback and evaluation: outbreaks physically separate learners	How to continue clinical oversight of fellows by faculty in a telemedicine environment?	Allergy and Immunology (Rush University, Chicago): • Use a shared virtual space to allow precepting	Virtual Allergy Clinic: • Fellow and patient use video telehealth visit • Faculty joins the virtual visit remotely to precept	Patient Communication Resources: VitalTalk (www.vitaltalk.org)