The experiences and applications of remote teaching in medical education: a literature review
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https://doi.org/10.5753/rbie.2024.3227Keywords:
Medical Education, Distance Learning, Educational TechnologiesAbstract
With the advancement of technology and the emergence of the pandemic, technology-mediated teaching has been used more to assist medical education. This study aims to analyze the experiences and applications of information and communication technology in medical education through an integrative literature review. Therefore, an integrative review was carried out with 03 descriptors in 02 digital libraries with publications from 2011 to 2021 in Portuguese and English. A total of 3051 studies were found, of which 12 were included in the review, evaluating the particularities of remote teaching in medical education, under the following criteria: demographic, teaching modality, technologies used, limitations and satisfaction. The results demonstrated the use of tele-education with more emphasis after the beginning of the pandemic, with different implementations and results. Of the selected articles, 66.7% addressed the remote modality and 33.3% the hybrid modality. 66.5% of the works refer to situations that followed the insurgency of the COVID-19 pandemic, when there was a greater urgency for the use of remote teaching. VLEs and videoconferencing platforms were the most used educational technologies. In the pandemic context, technological tools replaced traditional face-to-face classes in a satisfactory way, but not in an equivalent way, with little interest in continuing in the same modality after the pandemic. However, the greater ease in disseminating knowledge through technology demonstrated the importance of mixing teaching modalities for quality medical education. Thus, we can understand online learning in medical training as a useful and complementary tool to formal education, being insufficient as the only way to access education. It is concluded that blended learning can be a promising pedagogical tool to improve the quality of medical education, provided that students have adequate hardware infrastructure and internet connection.
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