Health and Disease Core Competencies (Wintersemester 2023/2024)

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Lothar Heinz Wieler , Dr. med. Henrike Heyne (Data Analytics and Computational Statistics) , Dr. Esther-Maria Antao (Digital Global Public Health)

General Information

• Weekly Hours: 4
• Credits: 6
• Graded: yes
• Enrolment Deadline: 01.10.2023 - 31.10.2023
• Examination time §9 (4) BAMA-O: 31.01.2024
• Teaching Form: Lecture / Exercise
• Enrolment Type: Bridge Module
• Course Language: English

Programs, Module Groups & Modules

Description

This course addresses the bridging module “Introduction to Principles in Medicine”. It is designed to equip students entering the Digital Health Program with an informatics/digital engineering background with core competencies in comprehending and evaluating health and disease. The course imparts a working knowledge in systems medicine, medical diagnostics and therapeutics, evidence-based medicine and good clinical practice, and health behavior.
A second teaching block is designed to cover an introduction to biological processes of the healthy human body and of frequent diseases such as cardiovascular, neuropsychiatric, gastroenterological diseases and cancer; selected frequent clinical symptoms and preventive screening. Students will learn to comprehend, assess and apply health and disease-related information in making and communicating decisions in the digital health context.

Characteristics of Class Meetings/Lectures:  Block once a week (Wednesday)

Learning Objectives:     

• Understand the concepts, definitions, and terms differentiating health and disease in the practice of medicine
• Ability to critically assess impact of health and disease topics in engineering and implementing digital solutions
• Critically assess impact of medical challenges and opportunities in digital health context
• Learn to make and communicate assessments and decisions of health and disease issues in development and implementation of digital health solutions
• Ability to assess scope and sustainable benefits of digital tools, applications, and information in health behavior, prevention and management of disease

Literature

Materials in openHPI course room, please register https://open.hpi.de/courses/hpi-dh-competencies2023

Examination

• Team assignment including student presentation: 50% of the final grade.
• Written final exam: (MC format): 50% of the final grade.

Dates

Wednesdays 9:15am-12:30pm

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