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The ânew normalityâ in research? What message are we conveying our medical students?
The impact of COVID-19
on medical education has been
mainly viewed from the perspective of the imposed transition
from face-to-
face
to online delivery of information and
the inforced stopping of practical teaching in hospitals.1-5
However, unfortunately, the deleterious effects of COVID-19
on how research findings are obtained, communicated and
valued needs also careful consideration. Whilst teaching students
that it is a genuinely exciting and unique time to be
in medicine, as teachers of a subject entitled âIntroduction
to Researchâ to second-year
medical students, we feel particularly
worried about what the handling of the pandemia
is transmitting our future physicians. Now, more than ever
before, scholars need to reaffirm the importance on how research
findings are obtained and communicated