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Information Management & Technology in Clinical Care

Health Education England’s Future Doctor Report highlighted how most see ‘digital literacy as a basic future educational competence’ and there was support for the recommendations from the Topol Review to ensure ‘future doctors are equipped with an understanding of genomics, artificial intelligence and digital medicine’.

The programme is designed over three years to introduce the idea that clinical care is dependent on information and that the generation, sharing and use of that information will determine the clinician’s role in healthcare. Over the second-year clinicians will learn how computational machines work and the implications for clinicians and systems in healthcare. The final year will be designed to introduce new ways of thinking, and new opportunities as computational machines impact on how healthcare is delivered.  

Purpose of the Course

This course is designed for piloting in the curriculum of the Midlands Enhancing Generalist Skills programme: Leadership and Social medicine over three years:

  1. Year One – the six sessions are designed to introduce the idea that clinical care is dependent on information and that the generation, sharing and use of that information will determine the clinician’s role in healthcare
  2. Year Two – the six sessions are designed to introduce how computational machines work and the implications for clinicians and systems in healthcare
  3. Year Three – the six sessions are designed to introduce new ways of thinking and new opportunities as computational machines impact on how healthcare is delivered.

The Enhancing Generalist Skills Programme: Leadership and Social Medicine aims to provide learning in domains of ‘big picture, big data’ and on engaging systems literacy around ‘structures, transformation, navigation and influence’. This course will benefit the entire programme but being an example and base for delivering educational content targeting the relevant domains highlighted here, above and look at how this learning can be distributed sustainably in the future, in the context of future expansion of the Enhancing Generalist Skills Programme.

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