A shift occurred in medical school education due to the novel coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic. It has been more than a year since the start of the pandemic, and many medical schools have had to adapt quickly. The medical -school curriculum had to be changed in order to accommodate the risk of the virus, which has caused an interruption in clinical education for both pre-clinical and clinical medical students. Limited hands-on labs, remote standardized patient encounters, telemedicine education and other substitutes have been used to bridge this gap within in-person learning. This review discusses the changes in curricula that some schools have taken, and the benefits and disadvantages of these selected methods.
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