This course addresses the bridging module “Introduction to Principles in Medicine”. It is designed to equip students entering the Digital Health Program with an informatics/digital engineering background with core competencies in comprehending and evaluating health and disease. The course imparts a working knowledge in systems medicine, medical diagnostics and therapeutics, evidence-based medicine and good clinical practice, health behavior, preventive medicine, and taxonomy of diseases. A second teaching block is designed to cover topics in mental health and neuropsychiatric diseases, chronic diseases, infectious disorders, and concepts in alternative medicine. Students will learn to comprehend, assess and apply health and disease-related information in making and communicating decisions in the digital health context.
Language: English
Course information
This course addresses the bridging module “Introduction to Principles in Medicine”. It is designed to equip students entering the Digital Health Program with an informatics/digital engineering background with core competencies in comprehending and evaluating health and disease. The course imparts a working knowledge in systems medicine, medical diagnostics and therapeutics, evidence-based medicine and good clinical practice, health behavior, preventive medicine, and taxonomy of diseases. A second teaching block is designed to cover topics in mental health and neuropsychiatric diseases, chronic diseases, infectious disorders, and concepts in alternative medicine. Students will learn to comprehend, assess and apply health and disease-related information in making and communicating decisions in the digital health context.
Characteristics of Class Meetings/Lectures: Double block on Monday from 13:30pm
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the concepts, definitions, and terms differentiating health and disease in the practice of medicine
- Ability to critically assess impact of health and disease topics in engineering and implementing digital solutions
- Critically assess impact of medical challenges and opportunities in digital health context
- Learn to make and communicate assessments and decisions of health and disease issues in development and implementation of digital health solutions
- Ability to assess scope and sustainable benefits of digital tools, applications, and information in health behavior, prevention and
management of disease
Course contents
Block 1: Introduction for Health and Disease Core Competencies (Böttinger):
1) Course Premises, Objectives, Organisation, and Content 2) Health and Illness (Disease): Historical Perspectives and Social ContextBlock 2: Overview of Organsystems in Medicine (Böttinger):
1) Anatomy and Physiology : Tissues and Functions 2) Core Mechanisms of diseases: PathophysiologyBlock 3: - Wednesday, 10 November from 11 am! Fundamentals in medical diagnosis and therapy (Böttinger):
1) Why medical diagnosis are needed, and how are they established? 2) Fundamental principles in medical interventionsBlock 4: Wednesday, 17 November from 11 am! Health Behaviour & Health Communincation and Informed Decisions (Tamara Slosarek):
1) Concepts in Health Behaviour 2) Health Communincation and Informed DecisionsBlock 5: Concepts in Precision Oncology (Erwin Böttinger):
1) Concepts in Precision Oncology / Postponed: Introduction in Mental HealthBlock 6: Health Economics & Autoimmmune Disorders (Daniel Lewkowicz & Susanne Ibing):
1) Introduction to Health & Behavioural Economics 2)Autoimmmune Diseases: Example Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseBlock 7: Genetics & Medicine (Henrike Heyne):
1) Introduction to Genetics and Medicine 2)Cases in Clinical GeneticsBlock 8: In-Depth Case Studies of Selected Major Diseases I (JP Sachs):
1) Musculosceletal Disorders: Degenerative Joint Diseases, Back Pain; Introduction to Radiology and Imaging 2) Major Neurological Disorders: Movement Disorders (example: M. Parkinson), Stroke, NeuropathiiesBlock 9: In-Depth Case Studies of Selected Major Diseases II (JP Sachs):
1) Acute Diseases -Appendicitis and Fracture of the femoral neck 2) Chronic Diseases- Hypertension and DiabetisBlock 10: In-Depth Case Studies of Selected Major Diseases III (JP Sachs):
1) Infectious Diseases - Microbiology of Pathogens 2) Epidemiology, Treatment, and Prevention of Infectious DiseasesBlock 11: In-Depth Case Studies of Selected Major Diseases IV (JP Sachs):
1) Clinical Oncology and Basics of Medical Statistics 2) Emergency Medicine Cases and Intensive Care MedicineMock Exam (01/24/2022):
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Prof. Dr. Erwin Böttinger is Professor for Digital Health - Personalized Medicine and Head of Digital Health Center at the Digital Engineering Faculty of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) gGmbH and the University of Potsdam. He is the founding director of the HPI Digital Health Center. From November 2015 to July 2017 Prof. Dr. Böttinger was the CEO of the Berlin Institute of Health Berlin (BIH) where he played a key role in shaping its forward-looking strategy for 'Personalized Medicine - Advanced Therapies'.
Prof. Dr. Böttinger is considered an international expert in personalized medicine and digital health, in particular for his performance as founding director of the Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, USA, from 2005 to 2015, where he brought personalized medicine and digital health into clinical use.
Through his many years of research and leadership activities at leading academic medical institutions in the U.S., such as Harvard Medical School, the National Cancer Research Institute (NCI), and most recently the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the physician and scientist is proven for a global perspective on the future of medicine.