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cord-034398-g09usvbs	Kumar, Santhi Iyer	Filling the Bench: Faculty Surge Deployment in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic	2020-10-29		.txt	text/plain	1320	67	55	To prepare for Covid-19 surges, a medical center surveys its entire medical staff to gauge each physician's ability and willingness to care for Covid-19 patients, and uses the results to provide additional training and devise a deployment plan. Using survey information, division chiefs were asked to rank each faculty member from 1 through 6 in each of the care domains based on the individual's suitability. To ensure faculty members would be successful in their area of deployment, the hospitalists and intensivists created orientations to the Covid-19 patient care areas and designed processes and protocols that would support physicians unfamiliar with those clinical spaces. Each week, division chiefs provide a list of faculty members who are available for "surge duty." In order to minimize the stress of having to learn new and evolving Covid-related processes at each of the institutions, faculty were assigned to be deployed in the health system where they felt most comfortable and practiced most often.	./cache/cord-034398-g09usvbs.txt	./txt/cord-034398-g09usvbs.txt