Medical Students and Their Perceptions of Digital Medicine: a Question of Gender?

Valentina Faihs; Christina Figalist; Eileen Bossert; Katja Weimann; Pascal O Berberat; Marjo Wijnen-Meijer

doi:10.1007/s40670-022-01594-x

Medical Students and Their Perceptions of Digital Medicine: a Question of Gender?

Med Sci Educ. 2022 Aug 2;32(5):941-946. doi: 10.1007/s40670-022-01594-x. eCollection 2022 Oct.

Authors

Valentina Faihs^{1

2}, Christina Figalist¹, Eileen Bossert¹, Katja Weimann¹, Pascal O Berberat¹, Marjo Wijnen-Meijer¹

Affiliations

¹ TUM Medical Education Center, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 Munich, Germany.
² Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Biedersteiner Str. 29, 80802 Munich, Germany.

Abstract

Digital technologies play an essential role in the medical sector of today and the future. In a cross-sectional online survey at a German medical university, male students more frequently reported keeping themselves informed about digital medicine outside of their studies across all clinical years of study. While female students self-assessed their knowledge in different fields of digital medicine as worse than their male peers in the first clinical years of study, no more gender differences could be found towards the final year. However, students of both genders showed a strong desire for further education on the topic of digital medicine.

Keywords: Curriculum; Digital literacy; Digital medicine; Medical education; Wearables.