Ethical issues in residency education related to the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative inquiry study (2024)

1. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7081-6377Aliya Kassam1,2,
2. Stacey Page1,
3. Julie Lauzon3,
4. Rebecca Hay4,
5. Marian Coret5,
6. Ian Mitchell6

1. ¹Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2. ²Office of Postgraduate Medical Education, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
3. ³Medical Genetics, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
4. ⁴Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
5. ⁵Adolescent Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
6. ⁶Pediatrics, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

1. Correspondence to Dr. Aliya Kassam, Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Canada; kassama{at}ucalgary.ca

• COVID-19
• Quality of Health Care
• Clinical Competence
• Education
• Ethics

• COVID-19
• Quality of Health Care
• Clinical Competence
• Education
• Ethics

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• Contributors AK is responsible for the overall content as guarantor and accepts full responsibility for the finished work and/or the conduct of the study, had access to the data and controlled the decision to publish. AK designed the study, collected data, analysed data and wrote the manuscript. SP helped to design the study, analyse the data and reviewed/co-wrote the manuscript. JL helped to design the study, analyse the data and reviewed/co-wrote the manuscript. RH helped to design the study, reviewed the interview guide, assisted with data collection and reviewed the manuscript. MC helped to design the study, reviewed the interview guide, assisted with data collection and reviewed the manuscript. IM supervised AK, helped to design the study, reviewed the interview guide, helped to analyse the data and co-wrote and reviewed the manuscript.

• Funding This study was funded by University of Calgary, Faculty of Graduate Studies (Not Applicable).

• Competing interests None declared.

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