Overview of digital health teaching courses in medical education in Germany in 2020.

ABSTRACT: Objective: The digitalization of the healthcare system poses new challenges for physicians. Thus, the relevance of learning digital competencies (DiCo), such as dealing with data sets, apply telemedicine or using apps, is already growing in medical education. DiCo should be clearly separated from digitized teaching formats, which have been increasingly used since the COVID 19 pandemic. This article outlines the faculties in Germany where DiCo are already integrated into medical education. Methods: Courses with DiCo as teaching content were collected by a literature research on Pubmed and Google as well as by contacting all dean's offices and other persons responsible for teaching at German medical faculties. The courses were summarized in a table. Results: In a first s

SUBMITTER: Aulenkamp J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8136344 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature