A global panel of medical education and digital health research experts has developed a kind of digital health skills that recommends being integrated into medical training programs worldwide.
Rifat AtunThe professor of global health systems at the Harvard Th Chan School of Public Health, was a member of the basic group who supervised the development of the digital health skills framework in medical education (DECOD). He recruited the panel of experts, questioned them about the priorities in digital health education and compiled the recommended skills.
The framework, published on January 31 in Jama Open Network, describes skills in four categories: professionalism in digital health, digital health of patients and populations, health information systems and science of health data. They approach subjects such as the ethical, legal and regulatory standards for health information management; TV, health applications and digital health determinants; Electronic health files; Artificial intelligence in health care; and precision medicine.
“The rapid digitization of health care and a shortage of digital health education for medical students and junior doctors from around the world mean that there is an imperative for more training in this dynamic and scalable field”, have writes Atun and his co-authors. “This framework focused on evidence and guided by consensus will play an important role in permission from medical institutions to better prepare future doctors for continuous digital transformation of health care.”
Read the complete instruction of the decoding: The framework of digital health skills in medical education: an international declaration of consensus based on a Delphi study