Introduction.

The European Higher Education Area encourages the design and application of innovative teaching methods. Regarding Health Sciences, they can contribute to the early knowledge and contact with healthcare practice and to the humanization of medicine. The aim is to present the characteristics and results obtained in the group activity: ‘Interview a healthcare professional’.

Subjects and methods.

The activity has been applied in the subject of Psychology (second year of the Degree in Medicine) during the academic year 2019-20 (n = 164 students, 29.3% men, mean age = 19.7). The COVID-19 pandemic has required its adaptation to distance education. Of the 33 collaborating health professionals, 29 answered the online satisfaction questionnaire (65.5% men, mean age = 49.2 years).

Results.

Thirty-three groups of students were constituted, the mean (standard deviation) rating was 8.80 (0.65) out of 10 points. Students presented a wide variety of issues related to the humanization of medicine. Most of the interviews were conducted by videoconference (58.6%). The health professionals who answered the questionnaire were mostly graduates in Medicine (89.7%) and specialists in Family and Community Medicine (27.6%). They presented high satisfaction in both the organization and assessment of the activity -mean score out of 5 (SD), 4.5 (0.5) and 4.7 (0.3) respectively-.

Conclusion.

‘Interview a healthcare professional’ is a group activity that facilitates early contact with healthcare practice and the active role of students, it has been highly valued by the participating healthcare professionals and can be adapted to the non-face-to-face teaching modality.

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