KevinMD January 26, 2026
I learned medicine in hallways, in the classroom, and outside.
I learned how to apologize to a patient by watching my attending pull up a chair and say, “I should have done better.” I learned how teams actually work by overhearing tense but respectful disagreements during sign-out. I learned what it meant to belong by being given responsibility before I felt ready. None of those lessons happened on Zoom or Teams.
In the post-pandemic era, many medical schools have retained hybrid and virtual formats not just for lectures, but for advising, mentoring, professionalism sessions, and identity-shaping conversations. Flexibility and access are the usual justifications. Now artificial intelligence (and increasingly agentic AI) are accelerating this shift. What began as a temporary...
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