Five Things You Should Know

5. Digital Health Didactics

Alpert Medical School began offering a digital health preclinical elective this fall, under the guidance of Megan Ranney, MD RES’08 F’10 MPH’10, assistant professor of emergency medicine and founder and director of Brown’s Emergency Digital Health Innovation program (see Brown Medicine, Winter 2016). The course introduces students to an array of topics and discusses how tech innovations can improve care—as well as safety, privacy, and other issues. Course coleader Margaret Thorsen ’15 MD’19 says the elective will “provide students with the frameworks and concrete skills to critically evaluate digital health innovations and develop and implement their own ideas.”