Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on European residency training programs in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine: The point of -view of the International Society Of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine World Youth Forum task force

Alessandro de Sire¹, Manoj K Poudel², Francesco Agostini³, Margarida M Freitas⁴, Alexander Ranker⁵, Charlotte Rosselin⁶, Karolína Sobotová⁷, Walter R Frontera⁸, Francesca Gimigliano^9
1 Deputy Coordinator of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine World Youth Forum Task Force; Chief Coordination of the Italian Society of Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine (SIMFER) Residents Section; Department of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont “A. Avogadro”; Rehabilitation Unit, “Mons. L. Novarese” Hospital, Moncrivello, Vercelli, Italy, Rehabilitation Unit, “Mons. L. Novarese” Hospital, Moncrivello, Vercelli, Italy
² Chief Coordinator of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine World Youth Forum Task Force; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
³ Department of Anatomy, Histology, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedics, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
⁴ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal
⁵ Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Coordination Centre for Rehabilitation Research, Hannover Medical School, DE-30625 Hannover, Germany
⁶ Department of Neurorehabilitation, Lille University Hospital, F-59037 Lille, France
⁷ Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
⁸ Immediate Past-President of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine; Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation, and Sports Medicine, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico
⁹ President-Elect of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine; Department of Mental and Physical Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli,” Napoli, Italy

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Alessandro de Sire
Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine, Department of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy. Viale Piazza D'Armi 1, 28100, Novara
Italy

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/jisprm.jisprm_22_20