Impact of COVID-19 On Cardiology fellows and Early-Career Cardiologists

* 1. As elective procedures have been postponed, translational/clinical studies and labs around the world shut down in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, clinical and science disruption is an unfortunate consequence leading to delayed progress in research and insights into combating cardiovascular disease. Further, clinical training is also altered, from canceled rotations, reduced procedural/imaging volumes to restrictions in seeing patients. Thus, it is important to anticipate career/training setbacks for cardiology fellows as well as early career cardiologists to ensure their careers can move forward, which would be crucial to advances in the field of cardiology.

This is a survey on behalf of the American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) and American College of Cardiology Women in Cardiology. This Survey is intended to be distributed to cardiology fellows and early career Cardiologists in the United States.

The goal of the survey is to assess how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced your research/clinical training/career 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 cardiology fellows and early career cardiologists 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 cardiology faculty. Any significant results or deidentified quotes 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 10-12 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 coordinators of this study:  Jennifer M Kwan, MD PhD jennifer.kwan@physicianscientists.org, Elissa Altin MD elissa.altin@yale.edu, Katherine Clark MD, katherine.clark@yale.edu, the Weill Cornell Medicine research coordinator, Evan Noch MD PhD, evan.noch@physicianscientists.org or the Massachusetts General Hospital coordinator of the study, Dania Daye MD PhD. The Survey has been IRB approved at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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