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. 2023 Jun;53(6):1042-1049.
doi: 10.1111/imj.16122. Epub 2023 Jun 16.

Digital health competencies for the next generation of physicians

Ian A Scott  1   2 , Tim Shaw  3 , Christine Slade  4 , Tai T Wan  5 , Craig Coorey  6 , Sandra L J Johnson  7 , Clair M Sullivan  8
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Digital health competencies for the next generation of physicians

Ian A Scott et al. Intern Med J. 2023 Jun.

Abstract

As health care continues to change and evolve in a digital society, there is an escalating need for physicians who are skilled and enabled to deliver care using digital health technologies, while remaining able to successfully broker the triadic relationship among patients, computers and themselves. The focus needs to remain firmly on how technology can be leveraged and used to support good medical practice and quality health care, particularly around resolution of longstanding challenges in health care delivery, including equitable access in rural and remote areas, closing the gap on health outcomes and experiences for First Nations peoples and better support in aged care and those living with chronic disease and disability. We propose a set of requisite digital health competencies and recommend that the acquisition and evaluation of these competencies become embedded in physician training curricula and continuing professional development programmes.

Keywords: competencies; digital health; physicians.

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