Table 4.

Top 3 concerns

Infection Risk and Safety Exposing people I live with to the coronavirus Getting myself infected Safety of self and family Putting family at risk Availability of PPE, food, and medications if the situation worsens Protection Patient care Patients with cancer will not get timely treatment and will suffer from poor outcomes. It will be challenging to deal with when the resource capacity improves after the pandemic. The inevitable surge in patients requiring radiation therapy/brachytherapy treatment due to the delay/postponement of their treatments from COVID-19. Having to repeatedly reassure patients that their treatment delays due to COVID-19 are not going to adversely affect their treatment outcome. Concern about learning Less clinical exposure Reduction in clinical time Redeployment that might affect training How will the pandemic affect learning? Research is affected How will the pandemic affect fellowship requirements? Coping Anxiety due to uncertainty Causing harm to someone else Self-improvement I am feeling that my health and safety are less important than my staff’s health and safety Considering leaving the fellowship early because this is not what I signed up for Concern about home country Lockdown in home country Current COVID-19 situation in home country and inability to provide support there Being far from my family, unable to help them if needed Potential for escalation of cases locally as is being observed in neighboring New York Longevity of crisis Returning home