The COVID-19 pandemic led to a global transition from in-person to online instruction leaving many higher education faculty with little time or training for this responsibility. Physical therapist education programs were especially impacted since a large part of the development of skills rely on face-to-face onsite practice. This phenomenological study explored the perceptions of physical therapist educators in three countries—Brazil, Cyprus, and the United States, who transitioned to an entirely virtual medium of teaching during the pandemic. Sixteen faculty participated in 1:1 semi-structured interviews. Trustworthiness of qualitative inquiry was ascertained using triangulation, thick descriptions, and peer reviews. Four major themes emerged from analysis of participants’ interview data: adapting pedagogy in real-time, expected excellence, limitations of the medium, and informing future teaching practice. All participants described teaching during the pandemic as one of the most challenging experiences of their professional careers. Despite available resources, faculty noted challenges in making authentic connections with students, adapting to technological interruptions, assessment of student understanding of content, and managing work-life balance. Despite the challenges, faculty worked collaboratively with peers to innovate new approaches of creating social, cognitive, and teaching presence. Unique opportunities arose from the pandemic to enhance future teaching practice.
Objetivo: Realizar uma revisão integrativa sobre os efeitos da abordagem osteopática na doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica. Metodos: Estudo seccional e documental, realizado por meio de revisão integrativa da literatura disponível nas bibliotecas virtuais de saúde: National Library of Medicine (PubMed), Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS) e Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro); no período de junho a outubro de 2019, através dos seguintes descritores em língua portuguesa e inglesa: Manipulação Osteopática, DPOC e Fisioterapia. Resultados: Foram encontrados 18 estudos potenciais inicialmente, dos quais 7 artigos foram considerados elegíveis para análise qualitativa. Conclusão: a utilização da Osteopatia como método coadjuvante apresenta evidências, embora incipientes, mas que já dão indícios dos seus efeitos na patologia. Dentre eles, estão: melhora da mecânica respiratória e da mobilidade diafragmática, aumento da capacidade de exercícios com diminuição da dispneia, além de efeitos nas variáveis pulmonares como CVF e VEF1, ainda não tão esclarecidos.
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