Proceedings of the 8th World Conference on Qualitative Research

Introduction: The global social disruption generated by the Covid-19 pandemic produced an immeasurable hecatomb in society. Especially in the health system; even when the World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization developed Biosafety actions for health workers exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Inquiring into this occupational reality of physicians was improbable, since Venezuela followed social confinement as a preventive mechanism to pre-serve the health of the population; this context placed physicians at a crossroads between epidemiological chaos, social uncertainty and inhospitable conditions of safety, hygiene and health at work; Therefore, the research in confinement, was proposed to migrate from a face-to-face methodology to the digital environment, with the purpose of reflecting on the meanings and transcendence that physicians attributed to medical praxis and working conditions in the Covid-19 pandemic. Methodology: The study was developed in the digital ecosystem where physi-cians from different specialties participated in challenging heuristic processes that shaped the netnographic methodology. This methodology merged the hybridiza-tion of offline and online society as a socio-health continuum, unveiling phenom-ena and complexities. Results: The netnographic methodology was guided by a research focused on concrete problems; the methodological procedure and the findings are exposed as a life line, the categories and subcategories represent pal-pitating traces of online sociability, product of an ecosophical hermeneutics of dimensions: guild, medical praxis, social, safety - hygiene - occupational and psychosocial health. Conclusion: This study paradigmatically legitimizes the suitability of netnography in contributing to the construction of scientific knowledge in occupational safety, hygiene and health.