Course Future health professionals digital competences COURSE CANCELLED

Title: Future health professional digital competences

Reg.no: A292/01

is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, Fall 2020.

Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

Aim: This course aims to take on three important and interrelated topics of 21 century healthcare: Digital competences, m- and eHealth, Computational thinking. However, how do you define and identify relevant digital competences for the health professional individuals? The technological development and digitalization is changing the foundation of healthcare and demands novel modern competences of the professionals. This course will initiate continuous educational focus of health professionals in developing the knowledge, use and application of own digital competences.

The course will be supported using Blackboard.

Learning outcomes: Upon completion of the course, the participant will be able to:

• Describe the theory and methodologies of digital competences
• Describe introductory elements of Health and eHealth solutions for patients
• Use tools to evaluate i.e. apps and web resources
• Discuss staging and performing computational thinking at university level
• Reflect on own knowledge, use and application of digital competences

Content: Blended learning

• Online activities 1-3, pre test and individual digital competence mapping
• First day in class room (10 Sep.)
• Online activities 4-6
• Second day in class room (22 Sep.)
• Online activities 7-9
• Third day in class room (8 Oct.)
• Online activity - post test and digital competence mapping

Language: English

ECTS: 2,8

Head of course: Mads R. Dahl

Instructors: Teachers from CESU and members at the faculty of Health. Invited speaker form Circle U using web conferencing.

Number of participants: 24

Time and date:

Online lessons: On Blackboard from 28 August

Class room lessons: 10, 22 September and 8 October 2020 approx. 9:00 - 15:00

Venue: Blackboard and Kollokvierum Øst (1268-218), The Victor Albeck Building, Vennelyst Blvd. 4, 8000 Aarhus

Course fee: DKK 3360

Participation in the course is without cost for:

• PhD students, Research Year students and Research Honours Programme students from Aarhus University
• PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
• PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses

Application deadline: 13 August 2020

Application: https://service.health.au.dk/modules/Course/mypage/coursecalendar.

Course dates:

• 28 August 2020