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During the COVID-19 pandemic, family medicine physicians and trainers were among the many healthcare professionals delivering much needed frontline care. The pandemic created challenges for trainers and trainees, including the fear of contracting COVID-19 infection, geographical separation from their loved ones, worry about their own and family members health and uncertainty about the future.· 1 Accelerated adoption of technological advances in patient care and education was necessary to help reduce the spread of the virus while helping healthcare services to stay open and for training to continue. Trainers had to learn how to cope with technological advances not only in clinical settings, such as the initiation of teleconsultation as well as COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics and mRNA vaccination, but also in teaching and learning, such as the conversion to online teaching and learning platforms (e.g. voiceover recording of PowerPoint slides and video conference calling for...