Iêda Aleluia 1 Ana Verônica Mascarenhas 2 Sandra Lúcia Brasil 3 1 Corresponding author. Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública (Salvador). Bahia, Brazil. iedaleluia@bahiana.edu.br 2,3 Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública (Salvador). Bahia, Brazil. avmbatista@bahiana.edu.br, sandrabrasil@bahiana.edu.br How to cite this article: Aleluia I, Mascarenhas AV, Brasil SL. Education in times of transition. Inter J Health Educ. 2020;4(1):xx-xx. doi: 10.17267/2594-7907ijhe.v4i1.2853 Inter. J. Health Educ., Salvador, 2020 October;4(1):xx-xx Doi: 10.17267/2594-7907ijhe.v4i1.2853 | ISSN: 2594-7907 Education in times of transition Educação em tempos de transição Editorial Come gather 'round people, wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown The Times They Are A-Changin', Bob Dylan 1 We have been undergoing transitions in health education for some time now. We have been asking ourselves how to best reach out to students, those digital natives who force us to look diferently at our teaching and learning methodologies, who question us about diferent ways of presenting our classes, students who “run away” from classrooms and leave us perplexed with their ability to fnd novel ways to fnd knowledge. These same students who, at various times, rebel against active methodologies, which demand face-to-face theoretical classes, in an old fashion that we have been striving so much to change. Where is the root of the apparent paradox? In our own human condition, of rebellion, of questioning, of movement. And, in this moment of COVID-19 pandemic, a mutant virus, in which we do have to establish social distance, keep classrooms closed, how to weave all those threads together? How to run with the change, and arrive in one place in a place of balance? There are so many questions, so many uncertainties, so many gaps to be flled ... and in record time. We can no longer sit in a comfort zone, and make changes step by step, at snail speed. Our generation of transition must change quickly, must incorporate technologies quickly, must create new synapses, new ways of relating to the new. Quickly. Terminologies such as: video lessons, xyz platforms, links, virtual classrooms, synchronous and asynchronous chats and discussion forums, online tests ... everything we postponed and saved for later, because the "now" was in person and the touch, the stop in the hall to answer questions was the usual. All of that changed in a few weeks, the evolution that would take months, even years, has now happened in weeks ... and we are still adapting. As beings adaptable to the extreme, we show our ability to survive. What is left to muse is not on our ability to adapt, it is on maintaining our critical reasoning on the process of adaptation, it is on keeping our humanity, our ethics and our commitment to each