Influencia del covid-19 en el rol docente: Experiencia de docentes y estudiantes de terapia ocupacional

Among the first measures to contain the advance of COVID-19 was the closure of schools at all levels of the educational system, with this there was an imminent need to generate mechanisms in which teachers could continue to carry out tasks at a distance, overcoming difficulties in the transition from face-to-face to virtual environment. Qualitative data are recovered from an open survey applied to 13 participants; fourth-year students and occupational therapist teachers who participated in the investigation “” Teaching role of the occupational therapist in higher education institutions in the metropolitan region of Chile. Four subcategories are obtained on the influence of the pandemic on the teaching role, adaptation behaviors, benefits of the pandemic on the teaching role and social dynamics in the university context during the pandemic. An over-demand of the teaching role is seen during the pandemic, making it difficult to fulfill academic objectives related to the development of basic skills for the profession. In addition, there are opportunities for the development of distance education by the occupational therapist, since he has knowledge of the environmental factors that would allow him to have an optimal performance in this modality and extrapolate it to telemedicine.