Introduction.

The Covid-19 crisis led to the closure of the country’s universities in March 2020, with total interruption of face-to-face activity. This study presents the design, development and general results of a totally online training with a ‘self-regulatory’ teaching approach, which a School of Medicine carried out during lockdown months (2019/20 last semester).

Subjects and methods.

The educational features of OnLine Program Because Covid19 (POLAC) for the 1st and 2nd medicine years are described, the structure and organization of the intervention. Use of tools and web-programs and comparison of academic results between the group of these students with students from previous year.

Results.

Ten out of 14 subjects participated and between 111-158 (1st) and 110-139 (2nd) students. Moodle web-program. Synchronous sessions: 49, self-evaluations carried out by 83.7% students. Forums: 3 forums / subject. Exposed doubts > 500; Tutorials: 107; Results of the final exams (global of subjects): a 17.7% of increase in the number of ‘pass’ grades and a 11.1% of decrease of ‘not pass’ grades regarding previous year.

Conclusions.

The design (student-centered approach) and development (completely online) of the POLAC is practicable for the development of non-face-to-face ‘self-regulatory’ learning. Using common online tools, a centralized academic structure, and an organization in weekly units are elements that may contribute to viability and immediate implementation. New studies are needed to verify the real scope of this type of instructional approaches.

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