Formation of digital competence of future doctors in the study of the educational component «Medical informatics»

Abstract

        The article considers and analyzes the problem of students’ acquisition of digital competencies in the study of the educational component «Medical Informatics» in the institution of higher education. The purpose of the article is to analyze the theoretical essence and content of the concept of digital competence and the competence of future doctors in the field of digital health care. Consider digital medical education and the acquisition of digital competence by students of higher medical educational institutions of Ukraine, using as an example the acquisition of digital competence in the study of the educational component «Medical Informatics». To achieve this goal, the analysis and synthesis of search results in information systems to determine the concepts of research, methods of expert evaluation, testing, questionnaires, observation, modeling, forecasting. The process of implementation of information processes in the field of health care, which involves the use of digital technologies, and determines the priority need for future health professionals to acquire relevant practical skills vital to medical records, medical and social data, patient morbidity analysis, etc., was considered. The program of the educational component «Medical Informatics» is based on practical experience of applied medical and biological specialties and works in the context of systems and organizations of clinical and public health for the development of experiments, interventions and approaches. This depth of methods of medical informatics determines the basis of the discipline and ensures its consistency with the definition of a common set of basic digital competencies. Acquisition of basic digital competencies in the study of the educational component «Medical Informatics», which is both medical and scientific and technological areas, makes teaching medical students the basics of problems and tasks aimed at using authentic digital data and systems aimed at building future competencies of doctors in the field of medical informatics are important and necessary for a student with one basic type of education that meets the needs and career goals of the future doctor. In accordance with the requirements of the Standard, the educational component «Medical Informatics» provides students with key digital competecies, which assume that future physicians will be creative, ask the right questions, demonstrate scientific skepticism, question past approaches, and strictly apply planning methods of experiments, data analysis and assessment theory. It is established that the integrative learning outcomes, the formation of which is facilitated by the educational component «Medical Informatics» is the formation of the future doctor’s competence in the field of digital technologies.