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:

1. The FOAMed movement before the pandemic
2. COVID times
3. 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)