1. The Med AppJam: A Model for an Interprofessional Student-Centered mHealth App Competition.
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Youm, Julie and Wiechmann, Warren
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AWARDS ,COLLEGE students ,COMPUTER literacy ,INTERDISCIPLINARY education ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,MEDICAL schools ,MEDICAL education ,MEDICAL informatics ,MEDICAL students ,TELEMEDICINE ,WORLD Wide Web ,INFORMATION resources ,MOBILE apps ,ELECTRONIC health records - Abstract
The Med AppJam is a 2-week long competition where students from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine are partnered with students from the University of California, Irvine School of Information and Computer Sciences in interprofessional teams to develop mobile health applications for use by clinicians and patients. The success of the Med AppJam comes from the unique opportunity for students to mutually contribute their content expertise to improve the clinical landscape while expanding their technology literacy and savvy. Since 2012, about 285 computer science students and over 90 medical students have collaborated to design and develop 53 iOS mHealth apps during the event. The Med AppJam model has been replicated in an Autism AppJam, a competition focused on the needs of a specific population, and with high school students in a mini Pre-Med AppJam using a paper prototyping approach. It is proposed that other medical schools consider implementation of a local Med AppJam as a viable model for engaging students in technology for healthcare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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