Training Education and Research in COVID-19 Times

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The global COVID-19 pandemic has posed a major challenge in all aspects of life including how graduate training of healthcare practitioners is conducted. In Saudi Arabia there were over 14000 graduate health professional trainees in different stages of their training in various specialties distributed in many healthcare facilities across the country. The vast geographical distribution and diversity of health specialties training programs and activities have remarkably magnified the challenge posed by the pandemic. However recently the SCFHS implemented a health training governance reform that granted more autonomy to accredited training facilities in supervising training activities according to preset policies. This autonomy was crucial for mitigating various risks imposed by the pandemic especially during the extended periods of strict lockdown.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The ultimate mandate is a knowledge management primer. We need to once again focus on the basics of human creativity and knowledge creation: </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Create the content/knowledge;</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Utilize knowledge;</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Document knowledge; </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Communicate knowledge; </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Enable an integrated training education and research ecosystem;</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Utilize the integrated platform.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Our volume is a contribution to the scientific debate for the added value of COVID-19 to our training education and research capabilities. We continue this debate with a new Special Issue in the Sustainability journal. We look forward to your contributions to this discussion.</span></p>