Health Sciences before, during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

[摘要] The COVID-19 pandemic has heavily influenced the teaching and practical trainingrequired for students enrolled in health sciences courses globally both at undergraduate,graduate and postgraduate levels. This public health threat has impacted not onlythe formation of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and midwives but of allhealthcare professionals, mainly due to the cancellation of clinical clerkships and thetransition of on-site to online education [1,2]. However, many students have experiencedincreased levels of anxiety, depression, fatigue, substance abuse, and less physicalexercise following online training, or have even considered a career switch to nonhealthcare-related fields. Moreover, a significant proportion of doctors-to-be haveadmitted that virtual courses cannot accurately replace or simulate hospital rotationsand the interaction of real patients and consider that the lack of this clinical trainingmight also reflect on their decision to pursue a certain specialty following residency [3–5].However, students did have the opportunity to be actively engaged and volunteer inpublic hospitals to help end the COVID-19 pandemic and acquire indispensable abilitiesfor future physicians [6].