What is an RCSI Online short course?
RCSI understands that healthcare professionals need to continuously grow and learn, enhancing their skills and expertise to meet the needs of an ever evolving and complex healthcare environment and the changing demands of their roles. We know that sometimes a short and focused course in a specific subject area is all you need to meet your professional development needs at a point in time.
Our new and exciting CPD short courses will allow you to access transformative education, with topics and content delivered by subject-matter experts with industry experience and expertise. You will have access to leading-edge, highly relevant content delivered in a stimulating online learning environment, with exciting weekly course themes and formative knowledge checks. Each week, you will engage in a 1.5-hour live webinar session, accompanied by self-paced online activities to earn an RCSI Certificate on completion.
Why Person-centred Digital Healthcare?
Health tracker apps on our phones, patient files being shared between different clinicians, multidisciplinary healthcare teams collaborating within and across institutions: these are just some of the ways in which the digital revolution is impacting healthcare.
At the same time, the rise of person-centred healthcare means that, instead of treating one aspect of an illness or injury, health professionals increasingly look at the whole person. It’s not enough, for instance, to just treat a patient’s heart condition in isolation. Instead, the clinician needs to look at their wider circumstances, such as diet, income levels and housing conditions.
This new short course from RCSI – which counts towards continuous professional development credits – will guide you through the wider issues involved in the digital health revolution, and demonstrate how digital tools can be used to deliver a person-centred healthcare model. It will examine the drivers of this digital disruption and the forces resisting change, before inviting you to analyse the implications for your organisation, as well as your professional and personal identity.