Medical Education Amidst a Pandemic: Possibilities, Pitfalls and Way-Outs

Abstract

The pandemic caught us unprepared! Teaching, learning and assessment that we were used to were no longer available. The education world had to contend with a new normal with social distancing. E-learning was the only answer that the world knew. However, e-learning was something that medical education had not considered as the sole mode of delivery. What follows is a brief discourse on how medical education responded to the pandemic, what has been learnt and what needs to be done to face the future more confidently