Digital Health meets Hamburg integrated medical degree program iMED: concept and introduction of the new interdisciplinary 2 track Digital Health
Digitalization in medicine is transforming the everyday work and the environment of current and future physicians – and thereby brings new competencies required by the medical profession. The necessity for a curricular integration of related digital medicine and, in more general, digital health topi...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
2020-11-01
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| Series: | GMS Journal for Medical Education |
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| Online Access: | http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/zma/2020-37/zma001354.shtml |
| Summary: | Digitalization in medicine is transforming the everyday work and the environment of current and future physicians – and thereby brings new competencies required by the medical profession. The necessity for a curricular integration of related digital medicine and, in more general, digital health topics is mostly undisputed; however, few specific concepts and experience reports are available. Therefore, the present article reports on the aims, the implementation, and the initial experiences of the integration of the topic Digital Health as a longitudinal elective course (2 track) into the integrated medical degree program iMED in Hamburg. |
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| ISSN: | 2366-5017 |