PESTEL ANALYSIS OF E-LEARNING IN HEALTH EDUCATION DURING COVID-19

The current health emergency situation caused by COVID-19 that Ecuador faces has had a direct impact on all sectors. Health professionals as the main battle front against COVID-19 have had to prepare in the midst of the collapse of hospitals. Students have developed academic experiences with e-learning in medicine. With the technological tools, a more active participation of students and medical professionals in the training processes was promoted through various educational settings under this modality. Through the integration of interactive content, virtual reality, videoconferences, digital content, combined web resources, synchrony and asynchrony, and access to resources and materials through multiplat-form software, barriers of distance and time are overcome in professional training. Continues and for life. There have been diverse experiences of its use in medicine both in undergraduate and graduate studies, and there are cases of success in its implementation. That is why this work focuses on analyzing and determining the factors that affect the health professional development presented by students in the midst of a pandemic in order to foresee possible solutions, through the use and analysis of PESTEL and MGSP.