Validation of a manual to design a didactic strategy for enhancing the level of information on COVID-19 in the medical students

Abstract

Introduction: didactic strategies, as a whole, demand the establishment of a dialogical, constant and triangular relationship between educators, learners and methodologies, even though the learner is unaware or not of the methodologies used by the professor for purpose required. Objective: to validate a manual for designing and elaborating a didactic strategy to enhance the information level for medical students concerning COVID-19. Method: a manual based on a didactic strategy structural design was elaborated with the porpuse of increase the knowledge for the second year medical students at the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, on the signs, symptoms of COVID-19 and the prevention methods used at the beginning of the pandemic in the country. Thirty national experts in medical education sciences gave their opinions on the relevance of the didactic strategy and about the structural design of the manual, which were analyzed by the Delphi method. The success of the strategy implementation was assessed implementing tests to the studied population before and after the introduction of the didactic strategy in the period 2021- 2022. Results: the experts’ opinion concerning the fundamentals underpinning the didactic strategy for higher medical education and the quality of the proposed manual was highly favorable in general consensus. Conclusions: both the educational strategy and the elaboration of the manual were validated by the experts for its application in higher medical education and in particularly for the detection and containment of COVID-19.

Keywords

• covid-19, manual didáctico, estrategia didáctica
• educación médica superior, método delphi