COVID-19: Medical education from the point of view of medical students using the participatory Delphi method.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a transformation of medical training. Although there were obvious medical education and social interaction challenges, e-learning presented some advantages, which may have generated medical curricula innovation and adjustments to novel technological methodologies. This study aims to generate consensuses among medical students regarding medical education provided during the pandemic in the resource-limited context of a Global South university.

Methods

The implementation of a participatory Delphi method included a recruitment campaign, training, constitution of Delphi panels and questions, and development of the Delphi exercises. Students from the second to the sixth year of medicine of a university in Quito, Ecuador, constituted t

SUBMITTER: Ortiz Riofrio AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11226019 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature