Abdoljalil Kalantar-Hormozi, Zahra Habibzadeh, Masoud Yavari, Seyed Mehdi Mousavizadeh, Seyed Esmaeil Hassanpour, Sadrollah Motamed, Abdolreza Rouientan, Naser Mozafari, Soraya Shahrokh, Shahin Mohammadsadeghi, Feyzollah Niazi, Khalil Rostami
Background: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the COVID-19 outbreak as a new pandemic. In the meantime, plastic surgeons postponed their appointments due to the fair and rational allocation of medical supplies. These limitations made all junior and senior residents perform operations only on traumatic patients rather than those needing reconstructive procedures. This study aims to determine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on plastic surgery training programs in Iran...
June 3, 2021: European Journal of Plastic Surgery