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Integrating Digital Health into the Curriculum—Considerations on the Current Landscape and Future Developments
The intercession of widespread Internet access and use of mobile devices and wearables has increased the attention to the field of digital health as a novel means of providing patient care. Although substantial advancements have been made toward the development of novel technologies and identificati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6971961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32010795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120519901275 |
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description | The intercession of widespread Internet access and use of mobile devices and wearables has increased the attention to the field of digital health as a novel means of providing patient care. Although substantial advancements have been made toward the development of novel technologies and identification of therapeutic areas of impact, the issue remains of how to educate future health professionals to work in an era of digital tools. This perspective piece seeks to highlight areas of concern related to subset areas of the digital health environment and provide potential educational pathways to prepare students. |
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spelling | pubmed-69719612020-01-31 Integrating Digital Health into the Curriculum—Considerations on the Current Landscape and Future Developments Aungst, Timothy Dy Patel, Ravi J Med Educ Curric Dev Perspective The intercession of widespread Internet access and use of mobile devices and wearables has increased the attention to the field of digital health as a novel means of providing patient care. Although substantial advancements have been made toward the development of novel technologies and identification of therapeutic areas of impact, the issue remains of how to educate future health professionals to work in an era of digital tools. This perspective piece seeks to highlight areas of concern related to subset areas of the digital health environment and provide potential educational pathways to prepare students. SAGE Publications 2020-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6971961/ /pubmed/32010795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120519901275 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Perspective Aungst, Timothy Dy Patel, Ravi Integrating Digital Health into the Curriculum—Considerations on the Current Landscape and Future Developments |
title | Integrating Digital Health into the Curriculum—Considerations on the Current Landscape and Future Developments |
title_full | Integrating Digital Health into the Curriculum—Considerations on the Current Landscape and Future Developments |
title_fullStr | Integrating Digital Health into the Curriculum—Considerations on the Current Landscape and Future Developments |
title_full_unstemmed | Integrating Digital Health into the Curriculum—Considerations on the Current Landscape and Future Developments |
title_short | Integrating Digital Health into the Curriculum—Considerations on the Current Landscape and Future Developments |
title_sort | integrating digital health into the curriculum—considerations on the current landscape and future developments |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6971961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32010795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2382120519901275 |
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