Systematically promoting job-specific digital competencies in the health professions: A teaching concept / Berufsspezifische digitale Kompetenzen in den Gesundheitsfachberufen systematisch fördern: Ein Lehrkonzept

The digital transformation is taking hold of the healthcare sector and is leading to changes in the professional requirements of the healthcare professions. In this paper, we present a teaching concept for promoting the profession-specific digital competencies of the healthcare professions. Based on systematic literature research, analyses of existing curricula and expert interviews, we identify requirements for the teaching concept as well as relevant topics. From this, we derive learning objectives and design a coherent module that can be implemented within one university semester. The module is divided into four consecutive learning units, which are based on the four-component instructional design model and the approach of problem-based learning and are characterized by a successive increase in the complexity of the learning tasks. Since the teaching concept takes into account the individual priorities of both teachers and students, it can be easily adapted to the various health care professions. With our teaching concept, we want to provide teachers with a guideline for systematically integrating the topics of digitization in healthcare into teaching and, with this article, create a basis for discussion on the interprofessional further development of the teaching concept.