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OBJECTIVES: Digital health (DH) is a revolution driven by digital technologies to improve health. Despite the importance of DH, curricular updates in healthcare university programs are scarce, and DH remains undervalued. Therefore, this report describes the first Junior Scientific Committee (JSC) focusing on DH at a nationwide congress, with the aim of affirming its importance for promoting DH in universities. METHODS: The scientific committee of the Brazilian Congress of Health Informatics (CBIS) extended invitations to students engaged in health-related fields, who were tasked with organizing a warm-up event and a 4-hour session at CBIS. Additionally, they were encouraged to take an active role in a workshop alongside distinguished experts to map out the current state of DH in Brazil. RESULTS: The warm-up event focused on the topic "Artificial intelligence in healthcare: is a new concept of health about to arise?" and featured remote discussions by three professionals from diverse disciplines. At CBIS, the JSC's inaugural presentation concentrated on delineating the present state of DH education in Brazil, while the second presentation offered strategies to advance DH, incorporating viewpoints from within and beyond the academic sphere. During the workshop, participants deliberated on the most crucial competencies for future professionals in the DH domain. CONCLUSIONS: Forming a JSC proved to be a valuable tool to foster DH, particularly due to the valuable interactions it facilitated between esteemed professionals and students. It also supports the cultivation of leadership skills in DH, a field that has not yet received the recognition it deserves.
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Asma é uma doença que atinge cerca de 10% da população mundial. Devido a tamanha proporção populacional afetada, é essencial que os profissionais da saúde conheçam os processos de sensibilização da asma, e também as cascatas de sinalização que são iniciadas depois da manipulação de um medicamento. Com o intuito de auxiliar o ensino desses processos farmacodinâmicos foi desenvolvido um simulador que apresenta ao estudante todo o processo de sensibilização e também permite que o estudante simule a administração de diferentes medicamentos a fim de avaliar as cascatas de sinalização que foram iniciadas. Este simulador foi avaliado por 65 estudantes, os quais atribuíram uma nota média de 8,46 pontos em um intervalo de 1 a 10. Isso demonstra que o uso de simuladores pode auxiliar no processo de ensino/aprendizagem dos efeitos farmacodinâmicos no tratamento da asma.
Asthma is a disease that affects about 10% of world population. Because the asthma is a disease that affects such population proportion, is essential that health professionals know the asthma awareness processes, and also the signaling cascades that are initiated after the holding of a drug. In order to complement the teaching of these pharmacodynamic processes was developed a simulator, which presents to the student the whole process of awareness, and this simulator allows the student to simulate and administer different drugs in order to assess the signaling cascades that were started. This simulator was evaluated by 65 students, which gave a grade point average of 8.46 points in a range of 1 to 10. This demonstrates that the use of simulators can help in the teaching/learning process of pharmacodynamic effects in asthma treatment.
El asma es una enfermedad que afecta a unos 10% de la población mundial. Debido a la proporción de la población afectada, es esencial que los profesionales de la salud conozcan los procesos de sensibilización para el asma, y también las cascadas de señalización que se inician después de la manipulación de un medicamento. Con el fin de complementar la enseñanza de estos procesos farmacodinámicos se desarrolló un simulador que presenta al estudiante todo proceso de sensibilización de la asma y también permite al estudiante simular y manipular diferentes medicamentos con el fin de evaluar las cascadas de señalización que se iniciaron. Este simulador fue evaluada por 65 estudiantes, lo que dio un promedio de 8,46 puntos en un rango de 1 a 10. Esto demuestra que el uso de simuladores puede ayudar en el proceso de enseñanza/aprendizaje de efectos farmacodinámicos en el tratamiento del asma.
