Practical Implications of Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 on Hospital Operations, Board Certification, and Medical Education in Surgery in the USA

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ² Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC, USA.
• ³ Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁵ American Board of Surgery, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁶ American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Surgery, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, 600 Moye Boulevard, Greenville, NC, 27834, USA. altierim19@ecu.edu.