Ophthalmology Education in the Post-Coronavirus Disease 2019 Era

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) has significantly disrupted ophthalmic services, worldwide. Elective surgery has been suspended, and outpatient visits dramatically decreased to reduce transmission of COVID‑19, enhance health system capacity, and preserve equipment. Moreover, local educational meetings including case presentations, grand rounds, and journal clubs are more or less cancelled altogether. Most medical students are instructed by their universities to not attend their clinical workplace attachments. These sequelae will have unprecedented consequences on the education and training of medical students, residents, and fellows for the foreseeable future. Thus, it is paramount that solutions should be discussed to overcome challenges in ophthalmology training.