A journey like no other: anatomy 2020!

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As 2020 is over, it seems fitting to start this editorial by reflecting on what can only be described as a seismic shift in how anatomy educators and students learning anatomy have been affected by the global Covid-19 pandemic. As the pandemic spread across the world, it has imposed social, educational, and physical changes on all of us at a pace and scale like no other event in this century (Ferrel and Ryan, 2020; Torda, 2020). Approximately 107 countries rapidly implemented closures of their educational institutions globally impacting over 1.38 billion learners (Li and Lalani, 2020; Sahu, 2020; Viner et al., 2020a, b). Schools and universities were forced to rapidly move their education activities online (Bao, 2020; Mukhtar et al., 2020). The evidence for the effectiveness of school closures and social distancing implemented by governments was based almost entirely on the past influenza models, where viral transmission was driven by non-compliance of children to infection control practices (Jackson et al., 2014; Rashid et al., 2015; Bin Nafisah et al., 2018; Viner et al., 2020b).... (full introduction available at the link given).

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