To the Editor: The graduating medical students poised to serve the U.S. health care system, including ourselves, are no strangers to social turmoil. Our classmates sought to balance academics with a desire to demonstrate solidarity with disempowered populations in the wake of events, like Charlottesville and the humanitarian crisis on the southern border. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing once again that medical education and the outside world do not exist independently of each other.

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