Learning and practice are the best words to define a medical residency program. During the COVID-19 pandemic, most residents had their programs reorganized in order to account for the great demand at the frontlines, as demonstrated by the preliminary report from the Brazilian Association for Medical Education (Associação Brasileira de Educação Médica [ABEM]). Despite this reorganization, learning and practice in psychiatry have never been so intense and challenging, since mental health and the traditional ways of addressing it have been widely affected.