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Op-ed: Residency during COVID

By The DO Staff

03.11.22

COVID has been a defining feature of residency training since 2020. A lot has been written about the experience of frontline health care providers, but as the pandemic drags on, the narrative of the #HealthcareHero deserves to be updated with a more nuanced reflection on what being in residency during a pandemic has been like, and how the ongoing crisis is shaping the newest generation of American physicians.