In December 2019, the Chinese health authorities announced the detection of the initial few cases of COVID 19 (later referred to as SARS-COV2) infection in Wuhan, Hubei ("Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) SITUATION REPORT -1 21 JANUARY 2020", 2020). This announcement was followed by swift measures aiming to limit the spread of the infection to other provinces in China. However, by January 2020, other Chinese provinces and countries in southeast Asia started to report cases of COVID-19 infection ("China coronavirus: Lockdown measures rise across Hubei province", 2020). Later, by March, the WHO announced COVID-19 as an official pandemic ("Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) -events as they happen", 2020). Despite all these signs and warnings, little attention was paid to the subject as the numbers of positive cases were limited, and most people thought that this would be similar to the previous 2019 pandemic (H1N1). It was not until early March 2020, when an unpredicted surge of positive cases was discovered in Qatar. This discovery generated a declaration of a state of medical emergency in Qatar, and many of the medical professionals were deployed to Covid-19 facilities.The rise of the COVID-19 cases was unexpectedly high and fast. This had a massive effect on the medical education process on all the residency programs in Qatar (under the medical education department at Hamad Medical Corporation(HMC)), including the Family Medicine program, which is the only Family Medicine residency program in Qatar. The effect of the
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