Keywords
Medical Education
Pandemic
SARS COV2
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Abstract
Introduction: The pandemic caused by SARS-COV 2 has forced educational institutions to take measures to mitigate the spread of the virus, social distancing was one, implementing virtual teaching on different Internet platforms. We will explain in this work what effect this provision had on medical students in Paraguay.
Objective: Relate demographic factors of the population studied with the perception in the virtualization of medical education due to the SARS - COV 2 pandemic.
Methodology: Analytical cross-sectional study, carried out in the last quarter of 2020, through a virtual survey, using previously validated test to measure the concern of medical students for the virtualization of education (Alpha: 0.77) and the perception of what has been implemented (Alpha: 0.74); both were crossed and an analytical statistical result was obtained.
Results: Of the 360 respondents in the multivariate analysis, there was less perception of academic repercussions at older age (RPa: 0.96; 95% CI: 0.92-0.99; p = 0.011) and among those who had no fear / concern for not understanding the classes (RPa: 0.23; 95% CI: 0.11-0.50; p <0.001); on the contrary, there was more perception of academic repercussions among those who did not agree with using virtual platforms to not miss classes (RPa: 1.49; 95% CI: 1.05- 2.11; p = 0.025); adjusted by two variables.
Discussion: Several months after the start of the pandemic and virtual classes, students continue to express their concerns about this new “virtuality”, which conveys that the classes are not being given as expected, this should be evaluated by the universities.
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