Medical edu post-pandemic

COVID-19 has forced many medical training institutions to go virtual. A whole assortment of gadgets and tools including virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) will eventually be employed to enhance the teaching and learning efforts.

Virtual teaching and assessment is here to stay and this will have major implications for medical education worldwide.

The interaction between the physical and virtual world provides enormous room for ingenuities and creativities.

In the last five years, healthcare activities such as remote robotic surgeries, AR and VR in rehabilitation, remote three-dimensional organ printing and virtual consultations were introduced.