Objective:

To demonstrate the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on the training of General Surgery residents who belong to Hospital General de Mexico, in order to implement new teaching strategies.

Material and methods:

A purposeful search of the institutional surgical procedures database was conducted, identifying surgeries performed by General Surgery residents from November 2019 to February 2020, prior to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which were compared to the amount of procedures performed in March and April 2020 after the pandemic started.

Results:

Group 1 found a total of 1,494 surgical procedures with the following distribution: R1 = 279 (18.67%), R2 = 444 (29.71%), R3 = 531 (35.54%) and R4 = 240 (16.06%). The monthly average (n = 373.5) was as follows: R1 = 69.75, R2 = 111, R3 = 133 and R4 = 60. Group 2 found a total of 42 surgical procedures with the following distribution: R1 = 3 (7.14%), R2 = 19 (45.23%), R3 = 14 (33.33%) and R4 = 6 (14.28).

Conclusions:

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic reduced the number of procedures to which residents of surgical specialties are normally exposed and could lead to a slowdown in practical skills even causing a setback.

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