COVID-19 and digital competencies among young physicians: are we (really) ready for the new era? A national survey of the Italian Young Doctors Association

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Calogero Cas๠ Silvio Brusaferro²  Claudia Marotta³  Marcello Di Pumpo¹  Armando Cozzolino³  Andrea D'Aviero¹  Emanuela Maria Frisicale⁴  Andrea Silenzi⁵  Francesco Gabbrielli⁶  Luigi Bertinato⁷ 

[1] Italy Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore;Istituto Superiore di Sanità;Italian Young Doctors Association, Rome, Italy IRCCS Neuromed;Italian Young Doctors Association, Rome, Italy Azienda Sanitaria Locale (ASL) Roma;Italy Brescia Agency for Health Protection, Italy Center for Leadership in Medicine Research and Studies, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore;National Centre for Telemedicine and New Healthcare Technologies, Istituto Superiore di Sanità;Clinical Governance Coordinator, Istituto Superiore di Sanità

关键词: medical education;    information technology;    artificial intelligence;    innovation;    digital health;   

DOI  :  10.4415/ANN_21_01_01

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Istituto Superiore di Sanita

【 摘 要 】

Background.   Digital health (DH) is nowadays fundamental for physicians. Despite the improvement of Information and communications technology (ICT) Italian medical doctors’ (MDs) education system seems not adequate in this area. Moreover, given the Covid-19 outbreak, societies are waking up to their limitations in this regard. Aim of this paper is to analyze the Italian status quo in DH. Methods. The Italian Young Medical Doctors Association (SIGM) proposed a web based survey to assess the status quo of awareness and training in terms DH among young doctors. The investigated areas were: Big Data, -omics technology and predictive models, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things, Telemedicine, social media, blockchain and clinical-data storage. Results. A total of 362 participants answered to the survey. Only 13% had any experience in big data during clinical or research activities, 13% for -omics technology and predictive models, 13% for AI, 6% had experience in Internet of Things, 22% experienced at least one telemedicine tool and 23% of the participants declared that during their clinical activities data collection is paper-driven. Conlclusions. For any investigated area, three categories of MDs were described: the high-tech, the low-tech and the no-tech one. An urgent integration of pre- and post- graduation training in DH is required to provide a homogeneous and adequate medical education.

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