Introduction. The current COVID-19 pandemic has forced medical education to change to a virtual modality. This can influence the quality of teaching and the perception that students have about older adults. Objective. Our objective is to evaluate the perception of the self-report fulfillment of geriatric competencies (SRFGC) in medical students from universities in Lima-Peru, comparing face-to-face and virtual techniques. Methods. A cross-sectional study was designed including students from 3 universities in Lima, Peru who have taken the geriatrics course in person or virtually, measuring the main variables such as ACCG according to the recommendations of the pogoe web portal and ageing the UCLA-GAS scale. Averages and standard deviations were calculated for numerical variables and frequency for categorical variables. Bivariate analysis was also performed between ACCG and the rest of the...

La actual pandemia por el COVID-19 ha forzado a cambiar la educación médica a una modalidad virtual. Esta puede influenciar sobre la calidad de la enseñanza y la percepción que tienen los alumnos sobre los adultos mayores. Nuestro objetivo es evaluar la percepción del cumplimiento de las competencias sobre geriatría en alumnos de medicina de universidades de Lima-Perú comparando técnicas presenciales y virtuales. Se encontraron las medias 0.72 (DE=0.22) para la modalidad presencial y 0.75 (DE=0.23) para la enseñanza virtual. No encontramos asociación estadística entre las variables de estudio (valor p=0.39), por lo que no hay diferencia entre el autoreporte de cumplimiento de competencias en geriatría entre las modalidades virtual y presencial.