Educating the healthcare workforce of the future: lessons learned from the development and implementation of a 'Wearables in Healthcare' course.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41746-023-00964-y and PMC identifier 10663572.
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Abstract
Digital health technologies will play an ever-increasing role in the future of healthcare. It is crucial that the people who will help make that transformation possible have the evidence-based and hands-on training necessary to address the many challenges ahead. To better prepare the future health workforce with the knowledge necessary to support the re-engineering of healthcare in an equitable, person-centric manner, we developed an experiential learning course-Wearables in Healthcare-for advanced undergraduate and graduate university students. Here we describe the components of that course and the lessons learned to help guide others interested in developing similar courses.