DEAN’S MESSAGE

It has been 17 months since life as the world knew it was turned on its head by a virus. The advent and impact of COVID-19 made the global pandemic literally the mother of all black swan events. Classroom lectures and tutorials went virtual and key research work was suspended as previously bustling campus facilities emptied and fell silent when Singapore went into a five-week lockdown to flatten the trajectory. It forced the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine to review and revalidate the way we worked.