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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a fractious time for medical education. While many natural disasters, attacks and epidemics have challenged the delivery of education in the past, nothing compares to the level wreaked by this potentially fatal pandemic. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), like many other low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), the practical and logistical trials are immense, and things are far from the “norm” in other developing countries. Before suggesting recommendations for medical education in LMIC like the DRC, it is important to fully appreciate the complexities and challenges of each of the considered countries. In this lies the key to achieving a better quality of education. The need of the hour is to reinvent the medical education program, which is designed with a goal to create a medical graduate possessing requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and responsiveness, so that he or she may function appropriately and effectively as a doctor of first contact with the community, while also being globally relevant. This article is a mirror to the problems faced in the DRC and their probable solutions.