ORI3200 Digital Competence and Innovation in Health Course description

The course emphasizes subject-specific digital competence for health education. Society, health services, and education are undergoing extensive digital transformation, which demands individual competence and impacts service organization. For technology to contribute to effective and cohesive health services, current and future healthcare personnel must engage with and utilize digital tools and media safely, critically, and creatively. Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, challenge traditional methods of performing tasks and organizing services, thus closely linked to service innovation.

The field of pathology deals with how different diseases and injuries change cells and tissue, thereby also changing the functioning of the tissue, organs and body. This course places emphasis on medical conditions and processes that prosthetists encounter in their professional practice. An introduction is also given to relevant forms of treatment from other health professions.

In this course, particular focus is on the following medical conditions and processes: diseases of the musculoskeletal system, rheumatic diseases, neurological diseases, cardiac diseases, vascular diseases, mental illness, infectious diseases, endocrine diseases, skin disorders including pressure sores, oncology, congenital pathology and lifestyle diseases.

The student must have passed the first year of the programme or equivalent, with the exception of the course ORI1050.

Knowledge

The student

• can explain special pathology relevant to prosthetics and orthotics focusing on occurrence, aetiology, pathological processes, symptoms and clinical signs
• can explain injury mechanisms, and inflammatory and healing processes
• can describe the principles underlying other healthcare professions’ treatment of relevant medical conditions
• can describe war injuries and consequential conditions

The work and teaching methods in the course include self-study, lectures and digital learning resources.

None.

Supervised individual written exam - a combination of multiple choice and free text assignments, 2 hours.

No aids permitted.

Grade scale A-F.