Digital competence - A Key Competence for Todays and Future Physicians.

Abstract

The current coronavirus pandemic clearly illustrates the increasingly important role of digital technologies in medicine [1]. As a key driver for medical progress digitisation is changing health care in a fundamental manner. Big data, improved analytics, telemedicine and many other technological achievements open up many opportunities to improve patient care and fostering precision medicine [2]. All medical disciplines are eminently influenced by the digital transformation. While several, amongst others political and federal, initiatives drive the progress of digitisation of the health system [3,4], there are different levels of knowledge with regard to digital applications and tools among health care practitioners [5–7].This article describes the need for the incorporation of digital competencies in medical education and presents a personal view of the authors how the implementation of these competencies in postgraduate training can be achieved.