Digital Competences in Health Sciences Professionals

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Keywords:

digital competence, professionals, health sciences.

Abstract

Introduction: Technological advances have democratized the use of the Internet, which has caused the need for digital competence in health professionals, in view of enhancing their capabilities and improving in all branches of health services, human health and population welfare, aspects that should be considered in professional training.

Objective: To describe the digital competences of health sciences professionals.

Methods: A descriptive literature review was conducted in specialized bibliographic databases (PubMed, Science Direct, Dialnet, SciELO, ProQuest, Latindex), the Virtual Health Library (VHL), and scientific journals (Educación Médica Superior), from April 2011 to December 2021.

Results: Out of 1431 articles, 21 were selected, which permitted to obtain six categories: information and information literacy, communication and collaboration, technical use and safety, digital content creation, problem solving, and factors related to digital competence.

Conclusions: Health sciences professionals present deficiencies in the competences of information and information literacy, communication and collaboration, digital content creation, as well as technical use and safety. However, they present more skills in problem solving; these are associated with factors in which males are more competent than females and there is an inverse correlation by which the greater the competence, the younger the health professionals are.

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Cecilia Beatriz Perez-Nazario, Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo

Estudiante de la Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud. Chiclayo, Perú

Lisseth Dolores Rodriguez-Cruz, Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo

Magíster en Investigación en Ciencias de la Salud. Licienciado en Enfermería. Docente de la Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo.

Rosa Jeuna Diaz-Manchay, Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo

Dra en Ciencias de Enfermería. Docente de la Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud. Chiclayo, Perú

César Ñique-Carbajal, Universidad CatólicaSanto Toribio de Mogrovejo

Magíster en Maestría en Docencia Universitaria. Docente de la Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud. Chiclayo, Perú

Published

2023-07-17

How to Cite

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Perez-Nazario CB, Rodriguez-Cruz LD, Diaz-Manchay RJ, Ñique-Carbajal C. Digital Competences in Health Sciences Professionals. Educación Médica Superior [Internet]. 2023 Jul. 17 [cited 2025 Feb. 26];37(3). Available from: https://ems.sld.cu/index.php/ems/article/view/3456

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