Impact of COVID-19 On Physician-Scientists (COVOPS) & Physicians Survey

* 1. As labs around the world shut down in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, science disruption is an unfortunate consequence leading to delayed progress in research and insights into combating disease. Further, clinical training is also altered, from canceled rotations to restrictions in seeing patients. Thus, it is important to anticipate career/training setbacks for the physician-scientist, physician population, the cohort that will work to discover future preventive and therapeutic strategies.

This is a survey on behalf of the American Physician Scientists Association (APSA). This Survey is intended to be distributed to physician, physician-scientist trainees, residents, fellows and junior faculty in the United States.

The goal of the survey is to assess how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced your research and clinical training thus far, so we may be able to prepare for and mitigate potential problems that may require advocacy/education/outreach for clinical and research directions.

Through the survey, we seek to identify those challenges/problems that physician-scientists and physicians are facing. The results of the survey will be used to advocate for changes to policies/institutional structures that will help retain and advance a diverse academic medical faculty. Any significant results will potentially be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

This survey is completely anonymous and voluntary. No personally identifying information will be linked to your survey responses. There is no harm or risk associated with taking the survey.

To protect the surveytaker, the account in which responses are stored is password-protected and can only be accessed by the researchers.

The survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the following research coordinators of this study: Yale School of Medicine research coordinator of this study:  Jennifer M Kwan, MD PhD jennifer.kwan@physicianscientists.org, the Weill Cornell Medicine research coordinator, Evan Noch MD PhD, evan.noch@physicianscientists.org or the Massachussetts General Hospital research coordinator, Dania Daye MD PhD. The Survey has been IRB approved at Weill Cornell Medicine.

*Agreement of Subject I have read the above information and understand the terms of my participation. I agree to participate in this study.