“…The appearance of the type 2 coronavirus, which causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2), has had a negative impact on health (Román et al, 2020;Lizana et al, 2021;Wang et al, 2021;Yáñez et al, 2021;Cost et al, 2022;Vizcardo et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2022), education (Chaturvedi et al, 2021;Talib et al, 2021;Alvarez-Risco et al, 2022;Bozkurt et al, 2022;Del-Aguila-Arcentales et al, 2022;Gonzáles-Gutierrez et al, 2022), prices (Apcho-Ccencho et al, 2021;Leiva-Martinez et al, 2021), ecommerce (Alvarez-Risco et al, 2021;Gao et al, 2023), and economy (Nundy et al, 2021;Shanmuga Priya et al, 2021;Zhou et al, 2021;Carvache-Franco et al, 2022), and has led to changes in medical education (Kaul et al, 2021;Liu and Lin, 2021;Succar et al, 2022), particularly in the updating of curricula and the promotion of self-learning (Binks et al, 2021;Kaul et al, 2021;Sigdel et al, 2021); in this emerging context, quality education depends on having welltrained (Henriques et al, 2021;Llerena-Izquierdo and Ayala-Carabajo, 2021) and motivated teachers (Toto and Limone, 2021), the development of relevant content (Gul and Khilji, 2021;Hadar et al, 2021), and the provision of safe and appropriate learning environments (Surdez-Pérez et al, 2018). COVID-19 has had an unprecedented adverse impact on medical education around the world, causing the suspension of academic activities (Elshami et al, 2021); however, universities had to adapt ...…”