JACC: Case Reports: The Impact of 2020 and the Future of Cardiology Training: How Do We Innovate?

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed health care around the world. Trainees were deployed to COVID duty, nonurgent cardiology services were cancelled, elective components in training programs were abandoned, video-based consultations were adopted, and volume of cardiology admissions reduced; all aspects of cardiology service provision were disrupted. These changes led to major disruptions in cardiology training and necessitated adaptation of nontraditional teaching methods. A new viewpoint, published in JACC: Case Reports, discusses how the pandemic provided opportunities to adapt and innovate. Read more.