What it's like learning medicine during the COVID pandemic
I think we can all probably agree that this year has been an absolute rollercoaster ride. Just take a second to pause and think about what we've been through in 2020. I can still remember the day when I was visiting my family for spring break. I was going to my sister's birthday dinner when I received the email that school was going to be completely online for the last half of the semester. I remember that there were just two courses left in my second year of medical school: gastroenterology and multisystem. In medical school, doing things online is actually extremely common. My lectures are recorded and uploaded so that we can watch them at our own pace. A lot of my classmates use this as a way to speed up the lectures--watch them at two-times speed--so that they have more time to do other things like practice questions or review other boards materials. Personally, I was a lecture-goer. I remember trying to do things "the efficient way"; while it definitely was more