Reflecting on medical school while playing Wordle

Wordle and medicine some similarities. They both have their own cliques, warrant a certain pattern of thinking, and instil subtle competition. To those who have never played Wordle it may present as random patterns of coloured boxes, but to Wordle players it stimulates thinking and builds a special camaraderie in the virtual world, especially when most people are still working and studying remotely.

For the past two years of medical school, students have been learning virtually, as mere faces in boxes on a screen, experiencing medicine …