Digital Health Education for Health Professionals: What are the Next Steps? — The Digital Apothecary

"I have served as an academic for the past eight years as an assistant and now associate professor of pharmacy practice, and during this time, my primary concern has been getting health professionals into digital health. It goes without saying it has been an uphill battle, and only in the past 12-24 months have I finally seen significant traction, primarily due to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic.
I could spend a lot of time detailing my thoughts and concerns, but it may be best first to summarize some of my outputs if you want a more in-depth analysis before I launch into the broader concerns.
How do we get Digital Health into Medical Education?
I have given multiple international and national talks on this topic and serve as a thought leader and subject matter expert on engaging digital health in education for the upcoming future of patient care. Nonetheless, I think the following frameworks I have created with others may best represent where I think inroads could be made.
First, particularly in pharmacy, we'd need to identify what job opportunities or possibilities exist. Now, this is an older framework, but I think it establishes some roles that would need to be trained for eventually...." Lire la suite