Digital Health School of the University of Montpellier and its partners: ESNbyUM
The Digital Health School of the University of Montpellier and its partners is a France 2030-certified project under the "Skills and Jobs of the Future" initiative, the only one selected at the national level to train all professionals involved in digital health. It is an original and innovative initiative that offers initial, professional, and work-study training in the field of digital health. It offers a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to training to meet the challenges of Digital Health, formerly known as e-Health.
Digital health is a rapidly expanding field that can be defined as the intersection between the worlds of healthcare and digital technology, made possible by the use and development of new information and communication technologies to support healthcare professionals in their practice and individuals in their care pathways. It addresses important societal challenges, such as the rise in chronic diseases and medical deserts, and touches on various areas of expertise, including health data, cybersecurity, AI, digital health tools, and telehealth.
Its personalized, interdisciplinary teaching approach and its digital campus, designed as an immersive, collaborative learning environment accessible to everyone at any time, embody the Digital Health School's commitment to training the professionals of tomorrow who are destined to evolve in an increasingly connected world.
ESNbyUM Objectives
Provide extensive training in digital health to future professionals in the health and medical-social sector, and develop specific expertise for other professionals involved in digital health.
ESNbyUM will provide training in Digital Health:
- Healthcare and medical-social professionals
- Digital specialists with a background in healthcare
- The management and senior executives of health and medical-social facilities
- Lawyers with expertise in digital health
- Specialists in charge of regulatory affairs for Digital Medical Devices
Strengthening disciplinary consistency in digital health
Digital Health is a complex field that involves many professionals with diverse expertise and covers topics as varied as health data, care pathways, telehealth, mobile health applications, medical decision support, and patient assistance robotics. This diversity is at the heart of the School of Digital Health, which has taken up the challenge of training all professionals involved in digital health by offering shared educational resources and training courses in a single space. ESNbyUM even offers a course entitled "Interdisciplinary Project in Digital Health," which allows students from different master's programs (medicine, sports science, pharmacy, science, business administration, and law) to collaborate on the design of a digital medical device, from the conceptual stage to its construction, with each student using their skills to bring the project to fruition.
Offer personalized support
Digital health is a field that requires training future professionals in new interdisciplinary skills and preparing them for emerging professions in order to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
To meet these needs, ESNbyUM offers its learners a teaching method called "6 P precision teaching," which is:
- Customized for training tailored to each learner
- Preventive measures for successful training without failure
- Predictive, applicable in future professional practice
- Participatory to enable learners to take an active role in their learning
- Evidence-based using a scientific approach
- And focused on Practices
Promoting the digital health ecosystem in Occitanie
By bringing together professionals from different backgrounds, teachers, experts, students, and citizens interested in digital health, ESNbyUM, a renowned and indispensable "outside the walls" school involved in all major projects targeting digital health, works in synergy with all its partners and stakeholders in the field in the region, whether they be academics, healthcare and medico-social institutions, companies, or local authorities.
Innovating in education through its Digital Campus
In order to offer its students a unique learning experience, ESNbyUM has designed its digital campus, an ambitious project that serves as a showcase for the University of Montpellier's School of Digital Health and its partners. This digital platform consists of five areas:
- A "Training" space, in the form of a Moodle LMS, where educational resources on Digital Health are shared.
- An "Orientation" space, featuring an AI chatbot, to help everyone find the right Digital Health training program for them.
- "News" and "Resources" sections to stay informed about developments in digital health
- An "Alumni" space to interact with former graduates
- An immersive 3D space allowing visitors to explore the iconic sites of the city of Montpellier
This platform, a bridge between an original immersive universe and the real world of training, embodies ESNbyUM's commitment to educating our students, trainers, and citizen-patients in Digital Health.
Governance
The Strategic and Structural Investment Committee (COMIS), chaired by the President of the University of Montpellier, is the site's strategic coordination body responsible for the deployment of initiatives funded in particular by France 2030, including the ESNbyUM program.
The Structuring Programs Department (DPS) at the University of Montpellier coordinates the operational and administrative aspects of these projects.
Within the ESNbyUM project, responsibility for the project has been entrusted to Professor Maurice Hayot, PU-PH CHU Montpellier, and coordination of the project to Dr. Brigitte Couette, Inserm researcher.
ESNbyUM's governance consists of several committees: a Strategic Orientation Committee (COS), a Steering Committee (CoPil), and Education and Innovation Committees (CPIs).
The COS participates in defining broad strategic guidelines and allocating resources, and gives its opinion on the action plan proposed by the Director of ESNbyUM. It is chaired by the President of the University and includes the Vice-President for "Education and University Life" and the members of the consortium.
The CoPil proposes strategic decisions to the COS in order to achieve the project's objectives and ensures its smooth running: progress, achievement of objectives, adherence to deadlines, quality, and financial costs.
The missions of the CPIs are to propose a teaching and innovation strategy to enable the implementation and continuous improvement of the quality of teaching and training offered by ESNbyUM.
