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Integrating Digital Health into the Curriculum—Considerations on the Current Landscape and Future Developments

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Aungst, Timothy Dy, Patel, Ravi·2020·Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

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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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  • The availability of faculty and experts to facilitate learning experiences does not match present needs and requirements for dHealth education.

    “we concur with Aungst and Patel [48] that, most often, the availability of faculty and experts to facilitate learning experiences does not match present needs and requirements in this regard.”

    From Evolving Medical Students’ Digital Health Perceptions and Intentions: Insights From a Prepandemic and Postpandemic Survey Study (2025) · cites this paper as Aungst and Patel [48]

    The Conclusions say that faculty development and experts to facilitate digital-health learning experiences “may not be available at the same scale.” This supports a potential shortfall, but the citing sentence’s “most often” presents it as more prevalent and certain than the source does. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  1. [12]What is Telehealth? NEJM Catalyst. 2 1, 2018 https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.18.0268. Accessed December 20, 2019. · DOI
  2. [17]Vassar L. How to equip new doctors for the digital health frontier. American Medical Association. 6 18, 2015 https://www.ama-assn.org/education/accelerating-change-medical-education/how-equip-new-doctors-digital-health-frontier. Accessed on October 26, 2019.

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Authors
Aungst, T. D., & Patel, R.
Affiliations
  • Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (US)
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
Corresponding author
Aungst, Timothy Dy
Venue
Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development
Published
2020-01
Volume
7
Pages
2382120519901275-2382120519901275
ISSN
2382-1205 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3002982224
Cited by
135
References
19
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 6
FWCI
14.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health and Medical Education
Keywords
digital health, curriculum integration, health professions education, mobile devices, wearable devices, internet access, digital health technologies, educational trajectories

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