Percepción de cumplimiento de los logros de aprendizaje referentes a destrezas y habilidades mediante E-learning por los estudiantes de noveno y décimo ciclo de la carrera de medicina de la Universidad de Cuenca durante marzo 2020 – marzo 2021 implementado por la pandemia de Covid-19, Cuenca-Ecuador

Abstract

BACKGROUND: as a result of the declaration of a pandemic emergency by the WHO in March 2020, the University of Cuenca in all of its faculties, including Medical School adopted e-learning as the principal teaching method Because of this change in the learning modality, the face-to-face practices carried out by the students in the various subjects were also suspended. This situation has caused several topics to be treated virtually and led to radical changes in the way in which medical skills were taught and the need to know how the situation influenced their learning was born.

GENERAL OBJECTIVE: to determine the perception of learning practical skills and abilities through e-learning in Medicine students at the University of Cuenca who completed virtually the ninth and tenth cycle during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on the learning achievements contemplated in the syllables of the respective subjects.

METHODOLOGY: this is a descriptive, cross-sectional study. The sample will include all the students of the Medicine career of the University of Cuenca who attended the ninth and tenth cycle under the modality virtual during the period March 2020-March 2021. To collect the data, a data collection form validated by the authors and the director of the project together with the Bioethics Committee of the University of Cuenca (see Annex 2) was used, given that there is no standardized questionnaire. The data will be processed through statistical systems SPSS, Excel and the Google Forms platform.RESULTS: up to 73.4%% of those surveyed stated that they always or partially had Internet connection and 69.8% of the participants stated that they knew the learning achievements of the practical skills contemplated within the ninth and tenth cycle syllables. The perception of e-learning compared to traditional education regarding the learning of practical skills is negative, up to 96.4% of the participants consider that practical skills are learned in a worse way in the virtual context. However, the average of all the accumulated answers showed that 67.22% perceived that they agree or totally agree to comply with the learning achievements that appear in the surveys.