Digital Innovations in Healthcare Education and Training

Stathis Th Konstantinidis, Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Nabil Zary, Stathis Th Konstantinidis, Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Nabil Zary

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9780128131459
• Topic: Medicina
• Subtopic: Teoria, pratica e riferimenti medici

Digital Innovations in Healthcare Education and Training discusses and debates the contemporary knowledge on the evolution of digital education, learning and the web and its integration and role within modern healthcare education and training. The book encompasses topics such as healthcare and medical education theories and methodologies, social learning as a formal and informal digital innovation, and the role of semantics in digital education. In addition, it examines how simulation, serious games, and virtual patients change learnings in healthcare, and how learning analytics and big data in healthcare education leads to personalized learning.

Online pedagogy principles and applications, participatory educational design and educational technology as health intervention are bridged together to complement this collaborative effort. This book is a valuable resource for a broad audience, both technical and non-technical, including healthcare and medical tutors, health professionals, clinicians, web scientists, engineers, computer scientists and any other relevant professional interested in using and creating digital innovations for healthcare education and training.

• Provides contemporary knowledge on the evolution of learning technologies and the web and its integration and role within modern healthcare education and training
• Discusses the latest digital innovation in healthcare education and training, thus enabling all type of readers to apply best practices
• Encompasses a cross-theme, scholarly explanation based on successful cases which provides a deep knowledge experience into digital innovation in healthcare education and training

Part One

Digital Innovations - A primer

• Chapter 1: Introduction to digital innovation in healthcare education and training
• Chapter 2: Serious games, simulations, and virtual patients

Chapter One

Introduction to digital innovation in healthcare education and training

Stathis Th. Konstantinidis^a

Panagiotis D. Bamidis^b

Nabil Zary^c
a University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
^b Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
^c Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

Abstract

Healthcare education and training is considered an early adopter of innovative methodologies and theories. Information and communication technology started to play a vital role in healthcare education and training from its early days. Digital innovation, enacted as new technology or novel use of existing technology; in the form of software, hardware, or a combination of two is on the forefront on delivering and acquiring knowledge and skills ever since. This chapter sets the scene for the field of healthcare/medical education informatics and allows the reader to follow the rest of the book, being a healthcare and medical tutor, a health professional, clinician, psychologist, a web scientist, learning technologist, engineer, computer scientist, manager, policy maker, academic, or researcher. The chapters of this book allow the reader to acquire contemporary knowledge about the evolution of learning technologies and the web and its integration and role within modern healthcare education and training. They inform the reader with the latest digital innovation in healthcare education and training enabling all type of readers to apply them in their practice. As a useful paradigm of a cross-theme scholarly explanation on digital innovation in healthcare education and training, it provides an in-depth knowledge and experience into digital innovation in healthcare education and training.

Keywords

healthcare education and training

medical education and training

technology

ICT

overview of healthcare education and training

evolution of healthcare education and training

digitalization of healthcare and medical education

Chapter outline

• Introduction
• Pedagogy and online pedagogy
• Co-creation value
• Innovations coined the digital innovation in healthcare education and training (research) area
• Book structure
• References

Introduction

Information and communication technology (ICT) has a rapid expansion within the last decades along with the continuous evolution of healthcare and medicine evidence and techniques. Furthermore, technology started many decades ago to be used in healthcare education and training not only to solve problems of practical training, like simulations but also enhance the knowledge acquisition holistically. Thus, the most advanced digital innovations are continuously embedded in healthcare education and training. Digital innovation includes either new technology or novel use of an existing technology; with technology refer to both software and hardware. Healthcare education and training encompasses notions of learning, teaching, evaluating, the process of acquiring knowledge, skills and competencies, and even behavior modification through different types of exercises, including active and passive learning methods.¹ The uniqueness of healthcare education and training requires the learners to be up-to-date with the latest advancements in their respected field, in an efficient way, around the tight schedules of both students and professionals.

Pedagogy and online pedagogy

A variety of learning and teaching theories have been widely used in healthcare education and training, in different settings, to enhance a range of competencies and skills. Healthcare education and training considered a very active area of educational research.²

One of the main things that have become central to healthcare education and training is the intrusion of social constructivism,³ which is widely adopted nowadays. Social interaction with other tutors and learners is fundamental in the development of understanding. Learners create their knowledge based on what they already know, a...