Face-to-face and remote teaching in the COVID-19 pandemic: Reports of experience in the discipline of health care

Abstract

After the creation of the Unified Health System (SUS), a restructuring of education began in the country. Thus, it is sought, nowadays, an interprofessional education (IPE) that breaks with the traditional individualistic view and values communication and cooperation between professionals from different areas. To this end, universities have practical disciplines in their curriculums that place students in the daily context of the Basic Health Unit (UBS). However, with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic it was necessary to adapt university education to the remote mode of teaching. In this context, the present work analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the presential and the remote teaching models in a state university in Paraná, in an attempt to understand how these two teaching modalities can interfere in the quality of professional training and in their understanding of interprofessionality. Thus, 5 students have been interviewed, which have gone to the same UBS, randomly selected. There have been significant differences between the apprenticeship of each modality, in which an integration of both would be the solution to overcome their specific difficulties and would bring more richness to the professionalizing formation of the students.