This online event with the Digital Health Systems Collaborative explored the importance of digital health curricula for medical education following the publication of the Digital Health Competencies in Medical Education (DECODE) framework.

Agenda

Times are listed in GMT. View the event booklet and speaker/panellist biographies.

13:00 - 13:05 Welcome and opening remarks

• Professor Josip Car, Head of School of Life Course & Population Sciences, King's College London, UK

13:05 - 13:25 Keynote Address

• Digital transformation in health systems
  Professor Rifat Atun, Director, Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, US
• Preparing for practice in a digital world: Imagining a digitally-informed, digitally-enabled health workforce
  Mr Jim Campbell, Director - Health Workforce, World Health Organization

13:25 - 13:40 Unveiling the DECODE framework: Findings from the multinational Delphi study

• Dr Ong Qi Chwen Angus, Research Associate, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Professor Sola Aoun Bahous, Dean of Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Lebanon

13:40 - 14:10 Panel discussion with Q&A
Building the future of digital health education: Opportunities and challenges

• Moderators:
  Professor Amir H. Sam, Head of the School of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
  Dr Tatiana Erlikh Fox, Research Associate, Onze Lieve Vrouwen Gasthuis, The Netherlands

• Panellists:
  Professor Niels Chavannes, Professor of Family Medicine and Head of Research, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
  Professor Sinead Langan, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Co-Director of Health Data Research UK (HDR-UK) London
  Professor Yodi Mahendradhata, Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
  Dr Abenezer Woyesa Turilo, Addis Ababa University College of Health Sciences, Ethiopia
  

14:10 - 14:25 AI for impact in a learning health system

• Professor Christopher A. Longhurst, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Digital Officer, UC San Diego Health, US

14:25 - 14:35 Call to action, next steps and closing remarks

• Professor Josip Car

Relevant publications

• The Digital Health Competencies in Medical Education Framework: An International Consensus Statement Based on a Delphi Study
• Advocating for a Master of Digital Health Degree
• A Digitally Competent Health Workforce: Scoping Review of Educational Frameworks