As part of the agenda for the 87th anniversary of the Maximum House of Studies, the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, the web panel of international stature "The future of medical education: Reflections from COVID-19" was held in the past Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

The webinar was attended by the Edelmiro Pérez Rodríguez, DM; Director de la Facultad de Medicina y Hospital Universitario “Dr. José Eleuterio González”, y del Rodrigo Enrique Elizondo Omaña, DSc; Vice-Principal of Undergraduate Studies of the Bachelor of Medical Surgeon-Obstetrician, como moderador de los diálogos abordados.

The invited to the deliberation of ideas regarding medical education were:

• Dr. Richard L. Drake, Case Western Reserve University
• Dr. Wojciech Pawlina, Mayo Clinic
• Dr. Luis Eugenio Todd Pérez, Former-Rector of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
• Dr. Hernán Ramírez Vela, Professor of the Introduction to the Clinic Department

The panel was divided into three phases where the current state and trends in medical education, adaptations due to the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in basic and clinical science education were first raised, in a second point questions were answered the audience connected and finally reflected on what was presented at the conference by each of the four guests.

Finally, the Rodrigo Enrique Elizondo Omaña, DSc; mencionó que “algunas veces también, las crisis aceleran lo inevitable, la pandemia del COVID-19, aceleró la implementación de estas herramientas digitales y produjo que los profesores adquirieran nuevas habilidades tecnológicas y adecuara los programas de estudio para continuar con la formación de médicos de excelencia […] muchos cambios en la educación médica que han sido provocados por COVID-19, y algunos de ellos, sin duda, perdurarán por largo tiempo” con lo cual cerró el panel.