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.”