Connecting through COVID
Zoltan Gyorgyi is a Paediatric Intensivist in Edinburgh with a passion for #FOAMed. He created this short documentary on the effect of COVID-19 on medical training when asked to give a talk at the European Academy of Paediatric Societies Congress 2022.
It is a 25 minute film divided into three chapters:
- The FOAMed movement before the pandemic
- COVID times
- The future is bright
The documentary is made up of a series of interviews across a global expert panel of medical educators, and discusses how adaptations made during the COVID-19 pandemic could shape medical education in the future, to create open-minded and well-equipped educators. Below is a short paragraph from Zoltan on his inspiration behind making the documentary.
I would describe the short story of this film as a congress talk invitation gone wild. During the COVID pandemic, I was really fascinated how medical educators have adapted to the enormous challenge and managed to deliver high-quality education at all levels. I felt their methods, which have been then widely borrowed, were similar, and maybe in a way rooted to what the free open access medical education (FOAMed) and MedTwitter communities had used. I followed along the wild idea of online interviewing an international faculty and learning a documentary film-making to give something back to these amazing communities.
Zoltan Gyorgyi
Faculty featured in the film:
- Teresa Chan – Emergency Physician (Hamilton, ON, Canada)
- Ffion Davies – Consultant Emergency Physician (Leicester, UK)
- Tessa Davis – Paediatric Emergency Physician (London, UK)
- Alberto Medina – Consultant Paediatric Intensivist (Oviedo, Spain)
- Sheetal Gandotra – Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician (Birmingham, AL, USA)
- Assim Javaid – Trainee Paediatric Emergency Physician (Cardiff, UK)
- Jonathan Kajjimu – Medical Student (Mbarara, Uganda)
- Constantinos Kanaris – Consultant Paediatric Intensivist (Cambridge, UK)
- Enikő Kovács – Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Physician (Budapest, Hungary)
- Hari Krishnan – Consultant Paediatric Intensivist (Birmingham, UK)
- Sarah Mojarad – Science Communication Expert (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
- Andrew Tagg – Emergency Physician (Melbourne, Australia)
- Sandra Viggers – Trainee Anaesthetist (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Scott Weingart – Emergency Intensivist (New York, NY, USA)
Derry Girl. Emergency Medicine RMO at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth. University of Nottingham Graduate BMBS BMedSci. Interested in Respiratory Medicine, Intensive Care and Medical Education.