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Perspective of German medical faculties on digitization in the healthcare sector and its influence on the curriculum

Background: The German healthcare sector is in the process of being disrupted by digitization. Universities are asked to reflect on the consequences and develop strategies to prepare their medical students for a digitalized health care sector. The current state of research does not systematically re...

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Autores principales: Neumann, Maximilian, Fehring, Leonard, Kinscher, Kristian, Truebel, Hubert, Dahlhausen, Florian, Ehlers, Jan P., Mondritzki, Thomas, Boehme, Philip
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Publicado: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8675372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34957329
http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/zma001520
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author Neumann, Maximilian
Fehring, Leonard
Kinscher, Kristian
Truebel, Hubert
Dahlhausen, Florian
Ehlers, Jan P.
Mondritzki, Thomas
Boehme, Philip
author_facet Neumann, Maximilian
Fehring, Leonard
Kinscher, Kristian
Truebel, Hubert
Dahlhausen, Florian
Ehlers, Jan P.
Mondritzki, Thomas
Boehme, Philip
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description Background: The German healthcare sector is in the process of being disrupted by digitization. Universities are asked to reflect on the consequences and develop strategies to prepare their medical students for a digitalized health care sector. The current state of research does not systematically record the associated activities of individual medical faculties in Germany. Objective: This study was designed to survey the status-quo of how German medical faculties view the digitization progress and to what extend digital capability building is already integrated into the curricula. Methods: A questionnaire with three focus areas was developed: Firstly, the general view of the medical faculties on digitization; secondly, concrete measures to prepare students for digital change and thirdly, the overarching organizational and regulatory conditions. The data was collected through short, questionnaire-based telephone interviews among those responsible for the curriculum at their faculty. The datasets collected were anonymized and statistically evaluated. Results: 30 interviews were conducted. The majority of faculty representatives agreed that digitization will change the role of physicians (87% agreement). Changes caused by individual digitization trends were however viewed to be less likely, e.g., whether medical expertise will become less important due to digital assistance systems (20% agreement), whether physician positions will be replaced by robots and algorithms (7% agreement), or whether hierarchies in hospitals will flatten (13% agreement). Digitization was seen to be of major importance for medical studies (93% agreement). Associated content should be given a higher priority in the curriculum (87% agreement). Two-thirds of faculty representatives believed that overarching institutions such as politics and medical associations ought to have more concrete plans for implementing the digital transformation and that innovations should be implemented in practice faster. Conclusion: While most faculty representatives attach great importance to the digitization of the health care system for university education, various questions about structural teaching measures to prepare students for the digital change show that there is no uniform education of medical students for a digitized health care system. We were also able to show that most faculty representatives are dissatisfied with the regulatory and organizational conditions of digitization in the medical sector.
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spelling pubmed-86753722021-12-23 Perspective of German medical faculties on digitization in the healthcare sector and its influence on the curriculum Neumann, Maximilian Fehring, Leonard Kinscher, Kristian Truebel, Hubert Dahlhausen, Florian Ehlers, Jan P. Mondritzki, Thomas Boehme, Philip GMS J Med Educ Article Background: The German healthcare sector is in the process of being disrupted by digitization. Universities are asked to reflect on the consequences and develop strategies to prepare their medical students for a digitalized health care sector. The current state of research does not systematically record the associated activities of individual medical faculties in Germany. Objective: This study was designed to survey the status-quo of how German medical faculties view the digitization progress and to what extend digital capability building is already integrated into the curricula. Methods: A questionnaire with three focus areas was developed: Firstly, the general view of the medical faculties on digitization; secondly, concrete measures to prepare students for digital change and thirdly, the overarching organizational and regulatory conditions. The data was collected through short, questionnaire-based telephone interviews among those responsible for the curriculum at their faculty. The datasets collected were anonymized and statistically evaluated. Results: 30 interviews were conducted. The majority of faculty representatives agreed that digitization will change the role of physicians (87% agreement). Changes caused by individual digitization trends were however viewed to be less likely, e.g., whether medical expertise will become less important due to digital assistance systems (20% agreement), whether physician positions will be replaced by robots and algorithms (7% agreement), or whether hierarchies in hospitals will flatten (13% agreement). Digitization was seen to be of major importance for medical studies (93% agreement). Associated content should be given a higher priority in the curriculum (87% agreement). Two-thirds of faculty representatives believed that overarching institutions such as politics and medical associations ought to have more concrete plans for implementing the digital transformation and that innovations should be implemented in practice faster. Conclusion: While most faculty representatives attach great importance to the digitization of the health care system for university education, various questions about structural teaching measures to prepare students for the digital change show that there is no uniform education of medical students for a digitized health care system. We were also able to show that most faculty representatives are dissatisfied with the regulatory and organizational conditions of digitization in the medical sector. German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2021-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8675372/ /pubmed/34957329 http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/zma001520 Text en Copyright © 2021 Neumann et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Mondritzki, Thomas
Boehme, Philip
Perspective of German medical faculties on digitization in the healthcare sector and its influence on the curriculum
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8675372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34957329
http://dx.doi.org/10.3205/zma001520
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