After reading the article published recently in your journal one can understand how a dramatic event such as the COVID-19 pandemic can shape the future of communities and also how important it is to learn from it.
Medical schools, which used to be adamant about recording classes when facing a shutdown in order to keep students safe, managed to transform their curriculum and adjust it towards learning through ‘virtual classes’.2 I believe this new setting might improve class attendance due to the easiness of access and also because it helps students to overcome some shyness in asking questions in front of their colleagues. Students are now able to pose questions anonymously. On the other hand, the preparation of this type of classes, which requires use of a different type of hardware and software, are more time consuming for faculty, and that can be a limiting factor.3 In the aftermath of this crisis, medical schools must assess student satisfaction with the new methodologies in order to make improvements aligned with the perspectives of all the different stakeholders.

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