Perceived Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Psychiatric Training Among Final-Year Medical Undergraduates in Sri Lanka: an Online Survey of Students from Eight Universities.
Anuradha BaminiwattaMadhubhashinee DayabandaraJayamal De SilvaThanabalasingam GadambanathanPabasari GinigeImalsha PremarathneHarshini RajapakshaAnuprabha WickramasingheSambasivamoorthy SivayokanChamara WijesinghePublished in: Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry (2022)
The pandemic has significantly affected the undergraduate psychiatry training in Sri Lanka, particularly its clinical components. Increasing clinical exposure to patients, managing students' stress, and building their resilience should be key concerns for medical educators during the pandemic.