Digital health and pharmacy education in a Nigerian university
| dc.contributor.author | Williams F. E. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-02T11:55:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-02T11:55:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description | None | |
| dc.description.abstract | Digital health (DH) has revolutionised healthcare delivery, impacting both healthcare providers and patients. It covers a wide area of technologies, such as wearable devices, telehealth, e-health, m-health and health telematics. DH application areas include treatment adherence, point-of-care diagnostics, clinical decision making and medication tracking and safety. For the pharmacist to be adequately equipped for optimal patient care, appropriate DH education is a must. Curricula for pharmacy education of the Nigerian university in this case study do not have a course titled “Digital health”. Nonetheless, students are taught aspects of DH under other courses throughout their training. With the aid of smartphones and mobile applications, students implement DH services. A pharmacist trained in this university is currently developing a mobile health app useful in establishing antimicrobial stewardship programmes in hospitals. However, rapid development of DH calls for review and restructuring of pharmacy education curricular to include DH as a course. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | None | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Williams, F.E. (2021) Digital health and pharmacy education in a Nigerian university. In FIP digital health in pharmacy education. A. Mantel-Teeuwisse, B. Khatri, N. Uzman & S. Melliant (Eds). 104 -106. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/13202 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) | |
| dc.title | Digital health and pharmacy education in a Nigerian university | |
| dc.type | Other |