Motivation for learning, a fundamental aspect for the comprehensive training of health sciences students amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Dear Editor: The pandemic caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the disease it causes (COVID-19) has created an unprecedented global health crisis. The impact of COVID-19 has been so severe that it has had a negative effect on a variety of industries. For example, higher education institutions have been forced to temporarily suspend many of their activities, affecting nearly 165 million students in Latin America and the Caribbean alone.1 This is due to the measures of mandatory social immobilization and lockdown put in place by the health authorities as a strategy to slow the spread of the virus.
Señor editor: La pandemia por el nuevo coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 y la enfermedad que causa (COVID-19) ha generado una crisis de salud sin precedentes a nivel mundial. Tal ha sido el impacto de la COVID-19 que diferentes sectores se han visto perjudicados, como por ejemplo la educación superior, cuyas instituciones han tenido que suspender temporalmente muchas de sus actividades afectando a cerca de 165 millones de estudiantes solo en Latinoamérica y el Caribe,1 esto obedeciendo a las medidas de inmovilización social y aislamiento obligatorio que fueron instauradas por las autoridades de salud como estrategias para disminuir la expansión del virus.