Tello, Nathali CarvajalOrdoñez, Alejandro SeguraMora, Leidy Tatiana OrdoñezArana, Jorge Enrique Daza2025-07-282025-07-282021Tello, 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.V43I0.8787515791726https://repositorio.usc.edu.co/handle/20.500.12421/7678Introduction: 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.es(Fuente: MeSH)Clinical clerkshipEducation distancePhysical therapy specialtyStudent health servicesTelerehabilitationArticle