Undergraduate Medical Competencies in Digital Health and Curricular Module Development: Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Owing to an increase in digital technologies in health care, recently leveraged by the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians are required to use these technologies appropriately and to be familiar with their implications on patient care, the health system, and society. Therefore, medical students should be confronted with digital health during their medical education. However, corresponding teaching formats and concepts are still largely lacking in the medical curricula.

Objective

This study aims to introduce digital health as a curricular module at a German medical school and to identify undergraduate medical competencies in digital health and their suitable teaching methods.

Methods

We developed a 3-week curricular module on digital health for third-year medical

SUBMITTER: Poncette AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7661229 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature