Digital Health School of the University of Montpellier and its partners: ESNbyUM
The Digital Health School run by the University of Montpellier and its partners has been awarded the France 2030 label as part of the A.M.I. "Compétences et Métiers d'Avenir" (Skills and Professions of the Future) program, and is the only one of its kind in France to train all professionals involved in digital health. This is an original and innovative initiative, offering initial, professional and sandwich courses 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.
A rapidly expanding field, Digital Health can be defined as the encounter between the world of healthcare and the world of digital technology, made possible thanks to the use and development of new information and communication technologies, to support healthcare professionals in their practice and individuals in their healthcare journey. It enables us to respond to major societal challenges, such as the rise in chronic pathologies or medical deserts, and touches on a range of skills such as 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 all at any time, embody the École de Santé Numérique's commitment to training tomorrow's professionals destined to evolve in an increasingly connected world.
ESNbyUM objectives
Massive training in digital health for future professionals in the healthcare and medical-social sector, and the development of specific expertise for other professionals involved in digital health.
ESNbyUM to provide training in Digital Health:
- Healthcare and medical-social professionals
- Digital specialists with a health culture
- Managers and executives of healthcare and medico-social facilities
- Lawyers with a digital health culture
- Specialists in charge of regulatory affairs for Digital Medical Devices
Strengthening disciplinary coherence in digital health
Digital Health is a complex field, involving a wide range of professionals with diverse expertise, and covering topics as varied as health data, care paths, telehealth, mobile health applications, medical decision support and patient assistance robotics. This diversity is at the heart of the Ecole de Santé Numérique, which has taken up the challenge of training all professionals involved in digital health, by offering to pool teaching resources and training in a single space. The ESNbyUM even offers an "Interdisciplinary Project in Digital Health" course, enabling students from different Masters programs (Medicine, STAPS, Pharmacy, Sciences, IAE and Law) to co-construct a digital medical device, from the initial reflection stage through to construction, with each student using his or her own skills to bring the project to fruition.
Offering personalized support
Digital health is a field that requires training future professionals in new interdisciplinary skills, and preparing them for emerging professions to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
To meet these needs, ESNbyUM offers its learners a pedagogy known as "6 P precision pedagogy":
- Customized training for every learner
- Preventive training for success without failure
- Predictive, applicable to future business practice
- Participative, enabling learners to take an active role in their own learning.
- Evidence-based with a scientific approach
- And focused on Practices
Promoting the Digital Health ecosystem in Occitania
By bringing together professionals from a variety of backgrounds, teachers, experts, students and citizens interested in digital health, ESNbyUM, a school "outside the walls", renowned and essential to all structuring projects aimed at digital health, works in synergy with all its partners and players in the field in the region, whether they be academics, care and medical-social establishments, companies or local authorities.
Innovative teaching through its Digital Campus
To offer its learners a unique learning experience, ESNbyUM has designed its digital campus, an ambitious project that showcases the University of Montpellier's School of Digital Health and its partners. This digital platform comprises five areas:
- A "Training" area, in the form of a Moodle LMS, where digital health teaching resources are shared.
- An "Orientation" area, enhanced by an AI chatbot, to help everyone find their training in Digital Health.
- News" and "Resources" areas to keep abreast of developments in digital health
- An "Alumni" area to interact with former graduates
- An immersive 3D space that lets you visit the most emblematic sites in the city of Montpellier
This platform, a bridge between an original immersive universe and the very real world of training, embodies ESNbyUM's commitment to training our students, trainers and patient-citizens in Digital Health.
Governance
The Comité des investissements stratégiques et structurants (COMIS), chaired by the President of the University of Montpellier, is the site's strategic coordinating body, which is concerned with the deployment of schemes financed by France 2030, including the ESNbyUM program.
The University of Montpellier's Department of Structuring Programs (DPS) coordinates the operational and administrative aspects of these projects.
Within the ESNbyUM project, responsibility for the project has been entrusted to Pr Maurice Hayot, PU-PH CHU de Montpellier, and project coordination to Dr Brigitte Couette, Inserm researcher.
ESNbyUM is governed by several committees: a Strategic Orientation Committee (COS), a Steering Committee (CoPil), and Pedagogy and Innovation Committees (CPIs).
The COS participates in defining the major strategic orientations, allocating resources and approving the action plan proposed by the ESNbyUM Director. It is chaired by the President of the University, and includes the Vice-President "Formation et Vie Universitaire" and members of the consortium.
The CoPil proposes to the COS the strategic decisions needed to achieve the project's objectives, and oversees the project's progress: progress, achievement of objectives, compliance with deadlines, quality and financial costs.
The missions of the CPIs are to propose a pedagogical and innovation strategy to enable the implementation and continuous improvement of the quality of ESNbyUM's teaching and training offer.
