Keeping Pace: The Need for Digital Health Education in Medical Schools

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Keeping Pace: The Need for Digital Health Education in Medical Schools
Khurana, Mark
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Fifth-year medical student, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; [email protected]; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1123-7674.

Disclosures: None reported.

Academic Medicine 95(11):p 1629-1630, November 2020. | DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003672

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To the Editor:
The potential of digital technologies in clinical settings is enormous. However, to take full advantage of these technologies, medical students need to have a basic understanding of how and why they work, as well as their potential pitfalls. Unfortunately, the rate of digital implementation is far exceeding the rate of increasing digital health literacy. Although some basic statistics, epidemiology, and informatics courses are offered at medical schools, as students, we do not receive basic training in fields, such as artificial intelligence (AI), biohacking, or big data. These technologies are not yet routinely used in clinical settings, but their presence is growing