Davao Medical School Foundation trains medical students for the digital future.

One of the first medical colleges in the city of Mindanao, Philippines, Davao Medical School Foundation is dedicated to providing quality education for the international community of students. The medical college is located in Davao City, as it becomes a landmark in the whole of South Asia. With so many facilities, Davao Medical School Foundation trains medical students for the digital future.

Over the years, Davao Medical School Foundation has become the trusted medical college for Indian students wishing to study MBBS in the Philippines. Davao Medical School Foundation realizes the dreams of the medical aspirants.

Let us have a look at how Davao Medical School Foundation facilitates its students in binding them with the digital future.

Revolution of Medical Education

Medical Education has taken a revolutionary change all over the world. One of the key reasons for the matter of concern is the safety of the patient. As per reports:

• The medical error causes injury to about 3% of patients in hospitals that lead to 98,000 deaths per year in the USA.
• A study by Harvard University shows that nearly 5.2 million people get affected by medical errors.
• As per WHO around 138 million patients are harmed by doctor's errors.
• FDA reports that 1.7 million injuries and 83,000 deaths in the last years have happened due to medical error.
• The misdiagnosis rate is about 10%-15%, whereas the diagnostic leads to the death of about 40,000-50,000 patients every year.

Globally, one of the leading causes of death is due to medical error. Medical errors are the primary result of human mistakes. It may be due to communication problems and inadequate information. Hospitals are now turning into automation and improvised technology to reduce the strain on the system.

Healthcare professionals are prone to have psychological errors which affect them in the form of fear and anxiety. This affects their clinical confidence and leads to making errors. Most medical errors occur due to lack of practice and this leads to making mistakes.

The most effective mechanism that can improve the safety of the patient as well avoiding error is through providing structured initiative by education and clinical training. This reduces the barrier of reporting errors and improves the patient's safety.

Digital Future of healthcare

Currently, more than 90% of American hospitals have electronic health records. With about $30 billion payment, the medicine industry has changed to digital. After decades the industry has now switched from paper to silicone, the cards, tables, and x-rays have finally left the hospital building now.

The healthcare industry is now entering into the era of digital transformation, students should now be well aware of the platforms to serve in their field. Also, clinical rotation takes a major role in having the exposure, it is a period in which the medical students take part in different specialities to gain knowledge and experience. Students are exposed to various technologies, which prepare them for the future.

A recent survey has said that the healthcare and pharmaceutical companies have gone digital to an extent of 15% compared to that of other industries.

This is where students having exposure to technology plays an important role.

Hospital Management System

To avoid human error in terms of data, the Hospital management system helps the hospitals to speed up the process.

The Hospital Management System was introduced to solve the problem of avoiding human error and manages the paperwork of every patient that is associated with the hospital. Their work includes the following:

• HMS maintains the record of the patient
• Improves the efficiency of avoiding human errors
• Improves the patient care
• Reduces the work of documentation
• Very easy access to patients data
• It reduces the possibilities of error

With the modern settings, health care has become an essential evolution for the integration of technology. Digital medicine integrates the technology and the product that ease the process of offering service to the patients.

Digital Medicine

Digital Medicine is the technology used as a tool for measurement and intervention in the field of offering service to human health. It is a high-quality software and hardware which supports the practice of medicine which includes treatment, recovery, and prevention of diseases

The products of Digital medicine are mostly evidence-based tools that enhance the support to practice medicine.

Measurement products include:

• Digital Biomarkers (Tracks change in tremor for Parkinson’s patient)
• Electronic clinical outcome assessment ( Outcome survey)

Intervention Products include:

• Digital therapeutics
• Connected Implantables (like insulin pumps)

Both measure and Intervene

• Continuous Glucose Monitors (CMG)

Davao Medical School Foundation aims to provide quality education and training to its students.

Let’s have a brief discussion about how Davao Medical School Foundation trains its students for the digital future?

Davao Medical School Foundation

Davao Medical School Foundation creates the best platform for international students by offering a world-class medical education at such an affordable cost. It emerges to be the most trusted medical college because of its outstanding performance. Davao Medical School Foundation is among the first medical colleges in the country to introduce the students to the digital future and adopt the modern teaching method.

Davao Medical School Foundation provides world-class facilities to its students, which includes digital classrooms, simulation labs, 3D Anatomy dissection centre, digital library, and many more in the list.

How does Davao Medical School Foundation train medical students for the digital future?

Though being the first medical college in terms of introducing various new technologies in its education. DMSF helps to install the latest technology and the faculties help the students to achieve groundbreaking results. Here is the list of technologies :

Simulation Mannequins Stations

DMSF is one of the first colleges in the Philippines to introduce Simulation Mannequins Stations for the clinical training of students. It was aimed to train the medical professionals to reduce medical error during the time of practice, conducting surgeries, writing prescriptions, and crisis intervention. The student needs to understand anatomy, physiology, and communication.

With about so many records mentioned earlier regarding the medical error that occurs during the treatment, simulation mannequins provide efficient knowledge and help in bringing down the number count of medical errors, thereby empowering its students with the latest technology which is currently an integral part of the healthcare system.

An accurate system of education that includes simulation technology is highly recommended by WHO. Davao Medical School Foundation happens to be the flag bearer for introducing this system.

Virtual Reality Anatomy

Virtual Reality is becoming a regular feature in our daily lives. It is mandatory to integrate this technology into our method of education. By studying anatomy through virtual reality is an immersive process of self-discovering that improvises experiential learning. Virtual reality has a huge impact on the student's long-term memory, which helps them visualize and make impressions lifelong.

Through Virtual Reality, students can explore every nerve, tissue, bone muscle in detail to the point of precision. While examining internal structures from every angle, they get to read and be aware of the anatomical terminologies, and they unfold the resolution of the 3D model.

3D Anatomage and Cadavers

The anatomage table allows the students to visualize the human anatomy just like a fresh cadaver. The dissection happens on the 3D table, the structure will have a microscopic precision level that results in an accuracy of a real anatomy

The education system based on the anatomy table is very effective for students. With the growing consensus among the medical field, this is such a visual aid that helps to improve the scores, lab sessions, detailed study, and having better interaction that results in lifelong skills.

Davao Medical School Foundation has about 50 cadavers for the students to practice that adds to theoretical knowledge.

Plastinated Models

One of the methods to preserve bodies, Plastination is a technique to preserve body parts just by replacing the water and fat content in the body with certain plastics, with the materials that can be touched, it helps the preserved bodies from decaying while retaining most of the original properties.

It is one of the cutting-edge technologies of medical colleges, DMSF brings the latest trending models into its curriculum. It helps the students to understand the cross-section analysis of human anatomy. Plastinated models help to study injuries in muscles that are approved for the practical sessions.

Davao Medical School Foundation is one of the first colleges to bring the latest technology for clinical exposure and expose the students to the digital future which reduces the number of medical errors to occur in the future. This is how Davao Medical School Foundation trains medical students for the digital future by introducing the features like Simulation Mannequins Labs, Virtual Reality Anatomy, 3D Anatomage Cadavers, and Plastinated Models.

Davao Medical School Foundation epitomises the confluence of tech-enabled tools, gadgets and equipment with an experienced pool of faculty. The digital advancements post Covid-19 has increased by 67.3% (Source: ibnnetworks) and is estimated to skyrocket to 90% by 2025. Especially, when it comes to healthcare. Increased usage of healthcare apps by the consumer has just reinforced the need for tech-based healthcare equipment and other installations at hospitals, clinics and educational institutions for trials.

From Penicillin to Covishield, there has been a continuous and steady shift as to how Medical Science progressed over the years. Today, we have banked at the Digital Age. Calling the need for digital healthcare. And despite our enormous achievements through the years, we have realised during Covid-19 how every advancement can just come to a halt. A hiatus marred by a simple protein molecule that we call Virus. And at times like these, when our healthcare system is overburdened, AI and Emerging Tech-based digital healthcare solutions will be the only plausible remedy.

This digital advancement perfectly aligns with our vision to nurture and cultivate the youth with the latest, contemporary and most recent technologies. Also, with daily advancements in biomolecular theories integrated with emerging technologies, we as an educational institution must imbibe a curriculum that promises to take care of our student's careers that is comparative to the overall growth in the field of medical science. And, Davao Medical School Foundation is proud to be at the forefront of this digital revolution.

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