Estrategias de formación durante la pandemia por covid-19 en un hospital universitario

The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) in March, 2020. This created a health emergency with impact upon all aspects of management, training, and care in hospitals. The pandemic represented a challenge for the training of healthcare professionals, who were forced to acquire knowledge fast and effectively in order to plan, act, and make decisions about the diagnosis and treatment of patients infected by SARS-CoV-2. Traditional training was adapted to the pandemic setting, taking into account the compulsory safety distance and the demand for short-duration effective training, with contents changing within a short time. In this context, the Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda (Madrid, Spain) implemented a strategy for digital training based on the creation and publication of educational pills through a mobile application developed by the Continuation Training Unit (Formacion SanidadMadrid App). During the pandemic, 24 educational pills were created, produced and published through the app, in three forms: short-duration video, access to websites with updated information, and brief documents on procedures. The design of the educational pills was based on these teaching-learning methods: mobile learning and microlearning, considered useful and effective tools to give an answer to training needs in a university hospital when faced with a health emergency, given their wide acceptance by healthcare professionals.