Abstract
Abstract: Introduction: Competency-based education has been discussed under the new perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic. The need for social distancing had effects on student activities and educational institutions needed to reflect and redesign the teaching-learning process. It was necessary to incorporate contents related to COVID-19 into the medical training programs and to adapt the teaching tools. Therefore, it is necessary that training be mediated by a collective construction of the competency matrix with the participation of the subjects involved in the process. Objective: This project aims to present the reconstruction of the curriculum in cardiology by observing the collaboration of the students and residents. Method: Exploratory study, involving 13 undergraduate medical students and eight medical residents from the institution’s cardiology program, who comprised the “Students and residents’ panel”. Consensus was reached among the panelists through the Delphi methodology. The first version of the matrix was prepared by the research team and sent, together with the FICF, containing 16 items aimed at COVID-19 content to be achieved at the cardiology internship and residency. The participants attributed their degree of agreement for each proposed item and after returning them, the data were tabulated, stored in an Excel spreadsheet and percentages for each item were calculated and presented in a descriptive manner. Result: The panel consisted of 19 participants. Of the 21 invited, 02 participants did not answer the online questionnaire and were excluded. The initial version of the matrix reached a consensus in the first round, with the lowest agreement rate being 71% in the internship matrix and 89.5% in the residency matrix. Both matrices showed high levels of agreement. There were no disagreements or suggestions for new items for the matrix. Conclusion: The students and residents’ engagement in the pedagogical process may contribute to a better understanding of the competencies for their training and bring sustainable changes to the curriculum.
Highlights
Competency-based education has been discussed under the new perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic
The new coronavirus pandemic has imposed social distancing and the consequent reduction and/or cessation of educational activities, a fact that forced educational institutions to rethink the entire teaching-learning process[4,5]. This fact is even more relevant when considering medical education, whether in the context of undergraduate school or in the medical residency program of the different specialties, whose graduates had their work directed to the frontline of care for the population with COVID-19
The inclusion of specific content related to COVID-19 became mandatory in the several medical training programs, as well as the adjustment of pedagogical tools to carry out a greater number of activities in a not-in-person format
Summary
Competency-based education has been discussed under the new perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic. Competency-based education has been studied and debated around the world, due to the growing concern about excellence in medical training that is adequate to the needs of the population[1,2] The discussion around this type of training occurs at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has gained a new focus with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic[3]. The new coronavirus pandemic has imposed social distancing and the consequent reduction and/or cessation of educational activities, a fact that forced educational institutions to rethink the entire teaching-learning process[4,5] This fact is even more relevant when considering medical education, whether in the context of undergraduate school or in the medical residency program of the different specialties, whose graduates had their work directed to the frontline of care for the population with COVID-19. There are many national and global entities involved in the discussion on competency-based teaching[6,7], there is no consensus on an ideal model, when thinking about teaching “in times of COVID-19”
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