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Updated Thursday, May 26, 2022-15:57

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Health is undergoing profound changes, mainly due to digitization, which imposes a new way of practicing the profession.

First, in the way doctors and patients now relate to each other.

"Streaming consultations make it possible to put the patient and their needs at the center, bringing the doctor closer to their activities or eliminating travel difficulties. It is already a growing reality that was strengthened in times of pandemic, where mobility was very limited, and that allows the follow-up of the patient at home, the collection of medical data or the resolution of doubts in treatments, increasing the accessibility of the professional to the patients", details Norberto Herrera, head of studies of the Degree in Medicine of the Alfonso X el Sabio University (UAX) and ideologue and promoter of external consultation via streaming.

Secondly, the Science of Data (big data) is introducing great changes in the field of health.

The management and results of big data analysis will change medical decisions and, in the not too distant future, algorithms will be used to predict the evolution of patients or the response to treatments.

"They will even tell us, from the reading of the genetic code of the patients, which treatments are or are not suitable in each case. This forces us to introduce these disciplines in the learning of health sciences. Because only from the knowledge As a result of all this, our students will be able to face and lead the change that is about to take place", says Pilar Saura, Dean of Medicine at UAX.

The evolution of the health system towards a more sustainable and digital model requires professionals trained in this field, prepared to carry out their profession in the most current context possible.

"This will require a professional open to introducing changes, for which they must have basic knowledge and be prepared for continuous training, with an awareness of teamwork with a vocation for leadership, mastering communication and constantly applying innovation. This, while maintaining a high technical level and without forgetting the patient and their needs and expectations as the axis of their action, which must be humanized", explains Norberto Herrera.

Simulation environments

The educational model must therefore focus on the student and their learning process to try to maximize it, placing them in environments similar to those they will find when they enter the labor market.

"This will lead us to advance in simulation and/or virtualization environments, increasingly similar to real environments, where the student can practice without fear of causing harm to a patient or violating their privacy. But all this must be done by promoting participation and interdisciplinary work, given that proactivity and decision-making capacity, working as a team, are also skills that are learned in the classroom.When we talk about interdisciplinary environments, in medicine, we should not only think of nursing, medicine, biomedicine and/or or psychology, but also in computer engineering, robotics,

The training of students today will be decisive for their hiring tomorrow and that is why the Alfonso X el Sabio University has evolved its educational model towards something more challenging.

"UAX has a unique position due to its own characteristics. All the profiles of a Polytechnic School coincide on the same campus, side by side, with our Faculty. All this is essential to understand two of the 4Ps (prevention, prediction, participation and personalization). ), which are prediction and personalization. For prevention, we are also working in an interdisciplinary way with Sciences of Physical Activity and Sports, Nutrition, Physiotherapy, etc. With interdisciplinary projects and our orientation to train makers,

From the initial courses, at UAX we try to make students learn with simulation techniques, virtual and augmented reality, introducing in the subjects the concept of self-training that will be required for adaptation to future digital developments and massive data management and its interpretation.

"Collaborations are being made with associations and digital companies that will participate in the training and development of new subjects such as "Digital Health" and cooperation with companies is being deepened to offer training in cutting-edge technologies, including digital technologies and simulation development. In addition , a training offer is being created in big data applied to health in all its aspects", details the head of studies of the Degree in Medicine.

In this way, the UAX educational model evolves towards the introduction of experiential and interdisciplinary learning: it encourages makers in co-creation and collaboration environments applying agile learning.

Likewise, it prepares its students in a competency profile in the areas of communication, analytical thinking for problem solving, disruptive thinking to apply creativity, management of agile methodology and work in diversity, leadership and ethics.

Addressing challenges together: UAX Makers

We live in a society that needs the work of several professionals together to solve day-to-day problems or challenges.

However, traditionally, universities do not apply the business model to student life.

This is not the case of the Alfonso X el Sabio University.

"The UAX Makers model is nothing more than students working in a coordinated and joint manner on a common project to which an answer must be given. To do this, we mix different groups of students from different grades, those necessary to arrive at the best possible answer. In addition, of students and teachers, we introduce companies and it is they, together with our teachers, who instruct students and who guide the teaching-learning process towards a model capable of responding to the labor challenges of the present and the future. the success of the model and the way in which we have implemented it", describes Raúl Notario, director of the UAX Health and Sports Sciences Area and ideologue of the "Sports Recipe" program, a research project in which he participates Los Madronos Hospital,in Brunette.

"The program aims to analyze the beneficial effects of individualized resistance training compared to strength training in hypertensive patients. Its influence on certain clinical aspects, the ability to perform physical exercise and the impact on lifestyle modification are assessed. In addition Besides advice on the type of exercise, issues related to nutrition and psychological care are also addressed.The aim is to find out the effect of this combined intervention on changes in lifestyle habits in the long term, as well as the benefits at a cardiovascular disease," explains Cristina Cortina, a cardiologist at Los Madroños Hospital who is collaborating on the project.

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