Applications are now open for the Digital Health and Informatics training program for established front-line clinicians (medical, allied health, nursing), commencing January 2024.
Designed for practicing healthcare professionals currently employed in the primary or tertiary care setting, the Learning Health System (LHS) Academy Fellowship program will equip clinicians with the skills to work with data and digital health technologies to improve patient outcomes and foster change.
Key information:
- The program runs from February to December in 2024
- The Academy is open to all AHPRA-accredited health care professionals. Prior research experience desirable
- Partial scholarships are available to support Academy attendance
- The program comprises of 2 days per week, 3 months coursework and 8 months project-based learning
- Projects will be co-designed with, prioritised by and agreed by participating organisations
Eligibility:
The LHS Academy is open to all fully qualified practicing clinicians in medicine, allied health and nursing employed at MACH-affiliated organisations, who want to gain experience in collaborative research, the digital transformation of health and become future change leaders in digital health. Future Fellows need to commit two days per week (partial scholarships available, remainder backfill from org), have identified an important problem in their health service that could be addressed with a digital solution, and gained support from their health service manager.
Application:
Selection will be undertaken through an online application and interview process led by the Director of the Center for Digital Transformation of Health, Professor Wendy Chapman.
Applications close 31 July 2023 and must include:
- Full CV, including brief description of any research projects undertaken
- Completed application outlining practical problem of interest pertinent to the health service and how it may be addressed by a digital health solution
- Brief letter of support from DONM/Divisional/Operational Manager responsible confirming the applicant is well placed to become a future leader in digital health and health informatics and has in principle support to release from clinical duties for 0.2EFT and that the identified problem is important to address.
What is the Learning Health System Academy?
The LHS Academy is a non-credentialled professional development program open to fully qualified clinicians (Doctors, Nurses, Allied Health professionals) currently employed in the primary or tertiary healthcare setting.
This program aims to build core competencies required by participants to become transformation agents in a Learning Health System who can who design, implement and evaluate innovative data-driven change and continuous improvement in health systems. By completion of the program, participants will be able to:
- work with, analyse and interpret routinely collected healthcare data
- design digital health innovations and tools that support clinical practice change
- test and measure the clinical benefits of digital health innovations
- understand how to design digital health innovations that can be implemented and are more likely to be adopted widely in the healthcare system.
- understand and apply principles of change management and adaptive leadership to lead the transformation of healthcare
Only 10 places are appointed to the Academy each year, plus one General Practitioner. Successful participants attend the Academy both onsite and virtual two days per week between February and December. Fellows undertake targeted active learning coursework to build the competencies required to contribute to Learning Health Systems and project-based learning to provide hands on experience in using health data to inform clinical practice and in digital health-enabled models of care.
Partial scholarships (up to $15, 000) are available through the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health to support clinical backfill. Participants are released from duties by their organisation, without detriment to salary, to undertake the program.
Additional Information:
Please click here to see more information and to submit your application.