Competencias esenciales en la formación de los residentes, ¿qué nos ha enseñado la pandemia por la COVID-19?

During COVID-19 pandemic, residents developed essential competencies for critical situations, such as teamwork, professionalism and communication. Facing the new disease led to an unprecedented learning context in which new competencies were needed. Through this study, we analyzed the most relevant aspects of residents' learning during the pandemic with the competencies-based Cruces 2008 model. We address inpatient care by multidisciplinary teams, the use of telemedicine to reduce physical contact and the development of online teaching methods and simulation to compensate for the deficit in other learning techniques. Decision-making in a resource-poor setting and its ethical conflicts taught the residents to prioritize the common good over other principles. Competencies such as information management, scientific research and patient safety were particularly affected by low evidence-based decision-making. Furthermore, the self-learning of the residents was reviewed through remote training. This new method requires better structuring and should be used as a complement to face-to-face training in the near future.