I’ve just encountered this Aussie organisation for the first time (at the Leadership Summit) - we really could do with something similar here in NZ, at least in principle.
It speaks to the fundamental problem of scanty exposure to digital health and innovation in medical school and early doctor careers.
Is this something that HiNZ (or perhaps the hypothetical @medical or @academics arms of HiNZ) advocate for loudly?
All health-related under-grad degrees. This is something the @NAHSTIG-council have been discussing for some time.
I know @cheffnn is bringing digital health elements into her teaching for Cardiac Sonographers.
I would go beyond medical school - it should be embedded at every level, including in specialty training. I teach a yearly basic “intro to health informatics” for advanced anaesthesia trainees in my region. They seem genuinely uninformed regarding how the RCP components they have been using daily for years as junior docs a) actually work and b) can be improved. They listen up. They ask good questions in the session. Yet my most common feedback is “mwah, why do we have to learn about this, it’s not in the exam”.
Conversely, when I mention the content of the session to my fellow SMOs, their response is unanimously “omg, I wish I learnt about this as a registrar, this is so interesting and could have saved me so much time when I became SMO”.
So yes, I would wholeheartedly support advocating for education at all levels - from medical school to SMO-level updates.
I had a look at this and it is for all professions. Nursing have done a reasonable amount of work digital in the under grad and it is more prominent in the scope and competencies so should be more viable in training going forward. @KarenDay will have more info