Usefulness of virtuality in physiotherapy professional practices in the context of the COVID - 19 pandemic
| dc.contributor.author | Tello, Nathali Carvajal | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ordoñez, Alejandro Segura | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mora, Leidy Tatiana Ordoñez | |
| dc.contributor.author | Arana, Jorge Enrique Daza | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-28T21:26:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-07-28T21:26:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Vocational training in health faces great challenges since social distancing became one of the strategies controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Physiotherapy education has a practical component that requires contact with patients and through which students acquire professional skills. This face-to-face learning modality has had to be replaced by new pedagogical strategies, such as attention mediated by information and communication technology (ICT), case-based teaching, clinical simulation and tele-rehabilitation, trying to maintain patient-student interaction and compliance with professional training. Method: Descriptive cross-sectional study, in 143 practice students of a physiotherapy program in the city of Cali - Colombia, which evaluates their perception after a professional training practice mediated by ICTs. Results: 82.5% of the students answered that, if it was possible to perform tele-rehabilitation during the virtual practices, considering it as useful in 36.4%. The most used virtual platforms were Google Meet and Zoom with 81.1%. More than half of the students (58%) agreed that synchronous and asynchronous virtual activities led to significant learning. Conclusion: Vocational training mediated by ICTs emerged in the face of the pandemic and reinforced this strategy as a learning tool for meeting professional training objectives and competencies, the quality is perceived as a viable strategy that implies a paradigm shift in traditional education within the training process. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Tello, N. C., Ordoñez, A. S., Mora, L. T. O., & Arana, J. E. D. (2021). Usefulness of virtuality in physiotherapy professional practices in the context of the COVID - 19 pandemic. Retos, 43, 185–191. https://doi.org/10.47197/RETOS.V43I0.87875 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 15791726 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repositorio.usc.edu.co/handle/20.500.12421/7678 | |
| dc.language.iso | es | |
| dc.subject | (Fuente: MeSH) | |
| dc.subject | Clinical clerkship | |
| dc.subject | Education distance | |
| dc.subject | Physical therapy specialty | |
| dc.subject | Student health services | |
| dc.subject | Telerehabilitation | |
| dc.title | Usefulness of virtuality in physiotherapy professional practices in the context of the COVID - 19 pandemic | |
| dc.title.alternative | Utilidad de la virtualidad en las prácticas profesionales de fisioterapia en el contexto de la pandemia COVID-19 | |
| dc.type | Article |