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Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Medical Education

Date Submitted: Sep 18, 2024
Open Peer Review Period: Sep 18, 2024 - Nov 13, 2024
Date Accepted: Apr 19, 2025
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The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

An Ecosystem Approach to Developing and Implementing a Cocreated Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Health and Biomedical Innovation

Alves P, Costa E, Costa-Pereira A, Falcão-Pires I, Fonseca J, Leite-Moreira A, Sousa-Pinto B, Vale N

An Ecosystem Approach to Developing and Implementing a Cocreated Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Health and Biomedical Innovation

JMIR Med Educ 2025;11:e63903

DOI: 10.2196/63903

PMID: 40988545

PMCID: 12457801

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Implementing an Educational Ecosystem-Centered Approach to the co-creation of a bachelor’s degree in digital health and biomedical Innovation

  • Patrícia Alves; 
  • Elisio Costa; 
  • Altamiro Costa-Pereira; 
  • Inês Falcão-Pires; 
  • João Fonseca; 
  • Adelino Leite-Moreira; 
  • Bernardo Sousa-Pinto; 
  • Nuno Vale

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to describe the co-creation and development processes of an educational ecosystem-centered BSc degree in Digital Health and Biomedical Innovation (SauD InoB). This program is shaped by a multidisciplinary, intersectoral and collaborative framework, involving over 60 organizations in teaching activities and/or internship supervision/hosting, most of which collaborated in needs assessment, curriculum design and public promotion of the degree. In the context of healthcare digital transformation, this comprehensive BSc degree will respond to unmet demands of the labor market by training students with technological, research and management skills, as well as with basic clinical and biomedical concepts. Graduates will become transdisciplinary, creative professionals capable of understanding and integrating different "languages," and reasoning, clinical processes, and scenarios.


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Alves P, Costa E, Costa-Pereira A, Falcão-Pires I, Fonseca J, Leite-Moreira A, Sousa-Pinto B, Vale N

An Ecosystem Approach to Developing and Implementing a Cocreated Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Health and Biomedical Innovation

JMIR Med Educ 2025;11:e63903

DOI: 10.2196/63903

PMID: 40988545

PMCID: 12457801

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