Sundy, a fourth-year student at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, reflects on the role that health literacy plays when faced with a public health crisis. COVID-19 has made us all stop, reflect, and change. A recurring theme in medical school is the emphasis on reflection and how it has the power to help identify areas of improvement and active learning. This is also supported by the GMC document titled ‘Benefits of becoming a reflective practitioner’, whi

The race to develop a COVID vaccine at the onset of the pandemic was aided by vaccine trials across the world. Emily Boyd, a 4th year medical student from Queen's University Belfast, recounts her experience helping to support the trial and shares her views on how it offered an insight into clinical research. When COVID-19 began to spread across the globe in early 2020, it soon became apparent that the best hope of a definitive solution would be the development of a vaccine. T