The program provides essential learning opportunities for app creation, oral and written communication, collaboration and teamwork, ethics, regulatory systems, project management and adaptability, entrepreneurship, clinical experiences, and industry internship opportunities.įor example, job shadowing placements immerse the student in the user environment, thereby strengthening a student's understanding of "real world" clinical environments and mHealth needs as they work with healthcare professionals and observe interactions with their patients. The CREATE-BEST program enhances graduate student training by providing employment ready skills and knowledge to meet the needs of the growing mHealth marketplace. Three universities collaborate in CREATE-BEST. With proper design, the app becomes an information and communication bridge that serves to close the gap between the home and the clinic, granting more freedom to patients, lower costs to the healthcare system, and gapless health monitoring for clinicians. The potential types of mHealth applications are wide ranging, from digital epidemiology to monitoring patient gait. mHealth is the practice of clinical healthcare and public health supported by mobile devices, which includes mobile device applications for collecting community and clinical health data healthcare information delivery to practitioners, researchers, and patients real-time patient monitoring and direct provision of care via mobile technology.
Inclusive and comprehensive-a must read book.The NSERC CREATE funded “Biomedical Engineering Smartphone Training” program (CREATE-BEST) provides professional training and practical employment-ready skills to engineering graduate students to meet the needs of the growing mHealth marketplace and enable innovation. “This book is a gift to be shared with anyone who believes in education as the pathway to peace and sustainability. Sharma provides a groundbreaking, non-Western perspective to reframe Global Citizenship Education from a values-based angle.” -Massimiliano Tarozzi, Professor and Director, International Research Centre on Global Citizenship Education, University of Bologna, Italy
“In these unprecedentedly difficult times, value-creating global citizenship education embodies an insightful and thought-provoking pedagogical approach for sustainable development, peace, and human rights. This excellent volume by Namrata Sharma provides a welcome and much needed response incorporating philosophical debates, review of policies, and examples of practice.” -Douglas Bourn, Professor and Co-Director of the Development Education Research Centre, University College London – Institute of Education, UK “In many of the discussions, policies, and bodies of practice around Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship, value-creating perspectives have all too often been ignored.