Study Design
The study obtained exempt status from the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Institutional Review Board. An anonymous, voluntary, 47-question survey was sent to all American Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited urology programs in the USA by contacting each program’s coordinator and/or director and each American Urologic Association (AUA) section secretary with the request to disseminate it to their residents. Additionally, social/professional networks were used to disseminate the survey, which was available from April 7, 2020 until April 11, 2020. The study is cross-sectional and assessed resident perceptions of personal, institutional and residency program responses to the pandemic. The survey utilized questions that were single-answer, multiple-answer, and Likert scales which were graded on a 1-5 scale with 1 representing “strongly disagree” and 5 representing “strongly agree.”