Digital Competence in Laboratory Medicine
Digital Competence in Laboratory Medicine is an initiative, that aims to teach digital skills to young scientists in laboratory medicine.
The initiative was founded after a meeting of young scientists from all over the world at the EuroMedLab Congress 2022 in Munich.
Dr. Jakob Adler (Germany) and Dr. Marie Lenski (France) started this initiative with a little survey.
The results are published in the following article:
What are the skills of the future?
Prof. Dr. Yasmin Weiß from germany is researching the skills of the future and has described the necessary skills as follows:
- Overarching methodological and social competencies: 1. communicate effectively and efficiently 2. cooperate in an interdisciplinary manner 3. coordinate and delegate tasks 4. think in big picture terms
- Comprehensive technological understanding with: 1. technology-related technical and methodological competence 2. IT-security competence 3. knowledge in Big Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence 4. mastering of programming languages
How can you participate?
1. Create your own GitHub-Account.
2. Send an email which contains your github account name to: digcomplabmed@ifcc.org
3. We will then add you to our github organization and to our newsletter mailing list.
4. Receive our newsletter with the latest information, notices and the dates and links to the online meetings.
5. Participate in our online meetings and bring in your ideas and problems!
How do we want to teach these skills?
1. Regular online meetings (every one to two months) 2. A GitHub organization, on whose site we host repositories with resources on different topics 3. Other resources (see below)
What is the content of the online meetings?
Main content is a so called "IT buzzword bingo" where a typical IT buzzword is explained in an easy to understand way in a 10 - 15 minute presentation. Afterwards questions can be asked and the topic can be discussed.
In addition, the meetings should serve as a platform for exchange and offer the opportunity to discuss problems in one's own laboratory with a broad community, to collect ideas and incentives and to work together on concrete solutions.