Educación presencial versus educación en línea en pandemia. Comparación de resultados entre dos cursos de pregrado en medicina

Abstract

Backgrounds: The sanitary measures implemented in 2020 due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic, forced the medical institutions worldwide to modify the modality in which theoretical activities were taught and to innovate regarding evaluations, migrating from a purely in-person system to online activities, within the emergency context. At the Diego Portales University, in the Medicine career, uncertainty was generated among the teaching and management team regarding the validity of this new modality and if it was comparable with previous years. Objective: To compare the performance of the students of the Women’s Health subject who used the online model in 2020, with those who used the traditional model in 2019, at the Diego Portales University. Methodology: This is an observational study, with a quantitative approach, a correlational scope, an analytical purpose, and a transversal temporality. It compares the final grades of two generations, within the same subject. Population: The samples were obtained from two groups: the first one corresponds to the 2019 generation, carried out under the traditional education model, the second one to the 2020 generation, which worked with online education in the context of a pandemic. Both groups correspond to the subject Health of the Woman in the fifth year of medical school. Results: The distribution of both groups is similar, which makes them comparable. It is shown that there are no significant differences when comparing the final grades of the subject between both groups.