Quality indicators in pediatric teaching in times of pandemic: a narrative review

Abstract

Introduction: COVID-19 pandemic brought many challenges to education, and amongst them is the adaptation of a majorly practical graduation, the medical education, to a virtual configuration. Therefore, new strategies and tools must be thought to assure that quality will be maintained, and so here will be discussed a few quality indicators of teaching and learning in virtual medical education, with an emphasis on pediatrics. Method: Pubmed, Google Scholar, Revista Brasileira de Educação Médica, Portal de Revistas da USP and Revista da Avaliação da Educação Superior (Campinas) were searched, and there were used 7 inclusion/exclusion criterion to select 16 articles. Results and Discussion: Based on the selected articles, 8 quality indicators are highlighted and discussed below: ‘’Interaction’’, ‘’Assessment Distributed Throughout the Course’’, ‘’Motor Skills Acquisition’’, ‘’Combination of Theory and Practice’’, ‘’Internationalization’’, ‘’Territoriality’’, ‘’Communication Skills Acquisition’’ and ‘’Accessibility’’. Conclusion: Due to the practical character of medicine teaching, there are not many articles that address specifically this issue. Hence, most of the articles presented here do not fit entirely to the virtual teaching of pediatrics, thus further research is needed on this matter. However, it was possible to synthesize the main quality indicators that could serve as a basis for future studies with regard to improving the quality of teaching in pediatrics.