Dear Dr.Sanders:
Resident training programs have long-standing partnerships with VA medical centers to enhance the quality care provided to veteran patients and to facilitate training of new physicians. The COVID-19 pandemic has had dramatic impact on resident training. Surgical residency training programs have been challenged due to nationwide shutdown of elective surgical procedures during the public health emergency (PHE) with widespread variability in resumption of these services across the country. As a consequence, surgical residents have had difficulty meeting the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medicare Education (ACGME) and American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) standards for completing their surgical training. Our organizations would like to request a meeting/conference call at the earliest opportunity to discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical resident training.
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