The Covid-19 pandemic has forced postgraduate medical teaching to shift online. However, due to issues of internet connectivity, it is difficult to reach all students by using virtual meeting tools and conference calls. WhatsApp and Telegram apps are ideal in such situations since they do not require high bandwidth connections and work well even with intermittent connectivity. For medical specialties such as Pathology, which require visual pattern recognition, it is convenient to share histopathology and cytology slide images on WhatsApp as a teaching aid. These images can be accompanied by annotations of the features highlighted in the images. However, this approach can become monotonous and boring since it lacks the human connect provided by the teacher's presence and voice.
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