Hello everyone! 

I introduce myself: I'm Carmen Garau, I'm from Palma and I just finished sixth grade. The truth is that, after so many years studying, you imagine a thousand times how it will be the day you finally graduate, your last class, your last exams in the 4A02classroom ... Of course, you never expect something like this, and although it has been a different ending due to the incidence of Coronavirus, it has also been very special.  

First of all, I would like to emphasize that we have not lost a single class, and I know that the School of Medicine and the University of Navarra as a whole have worked very hard to make this possible. Few students from other universities have been as lucky as we were.

At the beginning of the confinement we all had doubts, since few knew the platforms we used (such as Zoom, Panopto or Proctorio). In addition, exam time was approaching and we had to combine the more intensive study schedule with the classes. Many of us went back home and also had to integrate into our family life again.

Initially the classes were given live by Zoom: the teacher sent us by email the link to the classroom a few minutes before and then the class was given. I think this way of teaching is very useful if there is a reduced issue of students, as it allows you to have a direct contact with the teacher and you can ask questions during the class. There are about 190 of us in class and it was difficult for everyone to connect at the same time; in the end the classes were long and overlapped with the next one, in addition to the difficulty to follow the slides.

As a result of this experience, in a few days most of the teachers switched to using Panopto or Power Point with audio and uploaded them to the ADI Virtualclassroom during their normal class schedule . I think this system is much more convenient for everyone: for the teachers it allows them to record the classes, adapt to the schedule, correct errors or avoid technical failures of the live broadcast; and for us it allowed us to organize our studies much better, change the speed of the classes, and be able to see the slides at the same time, among other things.

In addition, something that I have commented with my colleagues is that, as the classes were recorded, it was very easy to see again any part of the class if you had any doubt during the study of the topic. I would like to highlight the Oncology classes by Dr. Leire Arbea, and the Pediatrics classes by Dr. Rocío Sánchez Carpintero.

When classes ended, between the hard socio-sanitary status caused by the Covid-19 and the mails announcing that we were left without the long-awaited end of degree program (no pasaclases, no paellada, no graduation and no end of Degree trip), it was time to study. I must say that I personally have not lived a complicated status at home, since we have all been fine, but there have been classmates who have lost their loved ones without being able to say goodbye to them, or families with enormous economic difficulties. I can imagine how difficult it must have been to study and take the exams for them. Therefore, they sent us an email from the University of Navarra to know eachstaff status and to be at our disposal.

The exams were another of those unknowns, although after the initial scare we got used to the new online format with Proctorio. But it was not only the students who were affected, the teachers had to change the evaluation criteria; in addition, many were in the hospital working and dealing with the consequences of this pandemic.

For all this I would like to thank again the School of Medicine of the University of Navarra and in particular the secretaries, who have been pending during all the exams, and teachers, now colleagues, who have made that we could finish in the best possible way.