The EL-COVID survey

General information

The EL-COVID survey is an initiative of Dr Nikolaos Patelis, a vascular surgeon with great interest in e-Learning based in Athens, Greece.

During the pandemic, Dr Patelis has attended a number of online training and educational activities and he was surprised by the different approaches to e-Learning taken by institutions and companies around the world.

It was apparent that there are lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 related e-Learning exponential growth.

More detailed information can be found at the official research page.

Results:

  1. The main results of the EL-COVID survey are now published in the Annals of Vascular Surgery and you can find the full text here.
  2. The German results of the survey are published in Vasa and the content is available online here.
  3. Results from mainland PR China is now published and the full text is available here.
  4. Results from Middle East & North Africa is available here.
  5. The Greek results of the EL-COVID survey are published in the Hellenic Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery and can be downloaded here.
  6. The anonymised dataset of the EL-COVID survey is publicly available through Mendeley Data repository.

The online forms can be found at http://med-pie.com//el-covid-survey/el-covid-english.pdf (English) and http://med-pie.com//el-covid-survey/el-covid-chinese-english.pdf (Mandarin-English).

Dr Nikolaos Patelis would like to thank all collaborators, societies and groups for supporting this effort.

The EL-COVID collaborators:

  1. Nikolaos Patelis, Athens Medical Center, Greece; Νational & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece [Primary investigator]
  2. Theodosios Bisdas, Athens Medical Center, Greece
  3. Zaiping Jing, Vascular surgery department, First affiliated hospital to Navy medical university, Shanghai, PR China
  4. Jiaxuan Feng, Vascular surgery department, First affiliated hospital to Navy medical university, Shanghai, PR China
  5. Matthias Trenner, Klinikum rechts der Isar, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  6. Nyityasmono Nugroho, Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia – Cipto Mangunkusumo National Hospital, Indonesia
  7. Paulo Eduardo Ocke Reis, Federal University Fluminense, Brazil
  8. Stephane Elkouri, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Canada
  9. Alexandre Lecis, Centre Hospitalier de Troyes, France
  10. Lamisse Karam, Hotel Dieu de France Hospital, Lebanon
  11. Dirk Le Roux, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  12. Mihai Ionac, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania
  13. Marton Berczeli, Semmelweis University, Hungary
  14. Vincent Jongkind, Amsterdam University Medical Center, The Netherlands
  15. Kak Yeung, VU Medical Center, The Netherlands
  16. Athanasios Katsargyris, Paracelsus Medical University, Klinikum Nurenberg, Germany
  17. Efthymios Avgerinos, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
  18. Demetrios Moris, Duke University Medical Center, USA
  19. Andrew Choong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  20. Jun Jie Ng, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  21. Ivan Cvjetko, University Hospital Merkur, Croatia
  22. George A. Antoniou, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
  23. Phillipe Ghibu, University Hospital Hairmyres, UK
  24. Alexei Svetlikov, Vascular & endovascular surgery Center, National Scientific-Clinical Memorial Hospital. “Professor I.I. Mechnikov”, North-Western Medical University, The Russian Federation
  25. Fernando Gallardo Pedrajas, Hospital Quironsalud Málaga, Spain
  26. Harm P. Ebben, Amsterdam University Medical Center, The Netherlands
  27. Hubert Stepak, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland
  28. Andrii Chornuy, Ternopil University Clinic, Ukraine
  29. Sviatoslav Kostiv, Ternopil University Clinic, Ukraine
  30. Stefano Ancetti, University of Bologna, Italy
  31. Niki Tadayon, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
  32. Akli Mekkar, CHU Titi Ouzou, Algeria
  33. Leonid Magnitskiy, Pirogov City Hospital No1, The Russian Federation
  34. Liliana Fidalgo-Domingos, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, Spain
  35. Sean Matheiken, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, UK
  36. Eduardo Sarutte Rosello, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
  37. Arda Isik, Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Turkey
  38. Georgios Kirkilesis, 3rd Dept. of Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, Greece
  39. Kyriaki Kakavia, Laiko General Hospital, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
  40. Sotirios Georgopoulos, Laiko General Hospital, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
  41. Chris Klonaris, Laiko General Hospital, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
  42. Oana Bartos, St. Josefs Hospital, Wiesbaden, Germany

Supporting societies & groups:

Acknowledgements:

Finally, we would like to thank Prof. Chris Klonaris, Assoc. Prof. Christos Bakoyiannis and Dr Besmir Grizhja for their support.