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Comment
. 2020 Sep;31(9):1492-1494.
doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2020.06.021. Epub 2020 Jul 2.

Impact of COVID-19 on IR Fellowship

Nicholas Xiao  1 , Andrew C Gordon  1 , Bartley Thornburg  1 , Kent T Sato  1 , Robert J Lewandowski  1
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Impact of COVID-19 on IR Fellowship

Nicholas Xiao et al. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2020 Sep.
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Figure 1
(a, b) Geographic survey heat map for survey responses.
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Figure 2
Reductions in fellow training by hours worked and case volumes due to COVID-19. (a) Reported number of hours per week by PDs. (b) Reported number of hours per week by fellows. (c) PDs reported the number of cases they expected fellows to complete in 2019–2020 based on prior years (blue). Fellows self-reported how many cases they expected to complete at the end of the year before COVID-19 (red) and after COVID-19 (green). (d) Reduction in IR department overall case volume as reported by PDs and fellows.
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Figure 3
(a–d) Assessment of fellow competency.
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