Digitalization in medicine is transforming the everyday work and the environment of current and future physicians - and thereby brings new competencies required by the medical profession. The necessity for a curricular integration of related digital medicine and, in more general, digital health topics is mostly undisputed; however, few specific concepts and experience reports are available. Therefore, the present article reports on the aims, the implementation, and the initial experiences of the integration of the topic Digital Health as a longitudinal elective course (2nd track) into the integrated medical degree program iMED in Hamburg.
