with the begining of the study department of Physiology college of medicine university of basrah has started giving online theoretical lectures on sunday 6 December,2020 followed by online parctical sessions, Today wedensday,9 December,2020 we started parctical sessions where the students were divided into 12 groups, then each group was further sub divided into 2 smaller groups for the sake of adhering to precoutionary measures against covid_19 pandemicespecially physical distancoy in order to prodect our beloved students from infection with covid_19