Introduction.

The objective is to present the experience of a virtual course of Research Methodology of the postgraduate career of specialist in general surgery.

Subjects and methods.

Design of the descriptive observational course (non-experimental), prospective with retrospective analysis and educational planning during 2021 to 2023 in virtual modality with digital platform and inclusion criteria of being resident doctors of 3rd or 4th year of the program who carry out the career of specialist in general surgery; two hours weekly for 20 consecutive weeks, divided into 40 hours virtual theoretical and 90 hours face-to-face practices (a total of 130 hours) to individually develop a research project and its final approval at the healthcare headquarters where you are studying the specialist career. Attendance of 75% of the classes and summative evaluation through virtual final exam of multiple choice with 4 answer options on topics of research methodology. In addition, anonymous and voluntary satisfaction survey.

Results.

Of 253 enrollees, 222 trainees (87,7%) were authorized to take a virtual final exam when verifying present: 175 passed (78.8%). When comparing the results with a previous face-to-face course, there were no significant differences. 93% of respondents were very satisfied with the virtual experience.

Conclusion.

Adaptation of a face-to-face course to a digital one proved that it is possible to achieve the objectives without resigning basic training standards initially proposed in a defined educational planning and achieve them as face-to-face teaching.

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