DD is third year. The decision to send them all home came as a bit of a surprise to them, and to CTFs. However the hospitals had already started emptying of non Covid patients, so DD had one clinic where there were no patients, with her receiving an examination instead. My understanding is that most hospitals in her area are still relatively empty so not much, even for those who are trying to volunteer.
It took four weeks for things to restart online, not helped by patchy internet services in the South West, the price some staff pay for living in lovely rural places. Its not ideal, but the structure suits her, and Bristol seem to have got it about right, with enough work and with exams which will check progress but which wont count. Her group did a quick comparison of what other medical schools are doing. A couple seem to have given up until September giving students five months off, whilst her friend at Imperial was sent home with lots to be getting on with, and the work has continued piling in, with serious exams this summer. This presumably be will problematic for some. One of DDs friend is unable to go home so is spending lockdown with the kind family of a fellow student. Its working out well, if a little crowded, but it wont for all.
DD is really hoping things will be near-normal in September. She will be intercalating in London, as one of relatively few external students, and wants the chance to meet her fellow course-mates. Its quite an academic course, and apparently quite competitive for internal students to get onto, so she is worried about the shift in learning style. On line, on her own will, could be difficult. She is also, like everyone else, worried about how she will make up the placements she is missing this term.
The first thing though is to rescue her belongings from both her placement hospital and her flat, and her car from a borrowed parking space outside London before we knew they would cancel congestion charge and parking.
But she is safe and it is nice to have her home.