Becoming an Expert in Digital Operating Environments (5 ECTS)

Objective

The purpose of the course is to strengthen the student’s skills in identifying and developing their own competence and in serving in a broad-based expert role.

The student recognises the role of a clinical expert and is familiar with the key factors affecting it in health care and social services. The student is able to evaluate their own competence and to prepare a personal development plan. The student knows how to productise their competence and is familiar with opportunities related to their expert brand as part of career development as well as in the development of their job description and raising the profile of their competence.

The student identifies the work community’s capabilities and promotes the operating culture in the implementation of digitalisation. The student is able to evaluate the digitalisation of expert work.

The student focuses on the core competences of a clinical expert in digital health care and social services: technologies and digital talent, ethics, communications, guidance, teaching and customer-oriented research and development activities.

Content

- Working as an expert in developing operating environments
- Core competences of a clinical expert
- Recognition of own competence and preparation of a development plan
- Productisation of competence and the expert brand
- Requirements of a work community and renewal of its operating culture

Location and time

The implementation consists of four scheduled online meetings, independent assignments and interaction in Moodle.

Tue 9. September 2025 1-4 pm
Thu 11.September 2025 1-4 pm
Tue 7 October 2025 9-12 am
Thu 9 October 2025 9-12 am

Materials

All materials and literature for the course are available in Moodle, which will open when the course begins. Instructions for joining the Moodle workspace can be found in OMA once your registration has been approved.

The use of artificial intelligence in completing learning tasks is encouraged, provided that this is clearly stated. Separate instructions are provided in Moodle.

Teaching methods

A course that is implemented entirely online, which includes interactive online lectures based on collaborative learning, educational videos for independent study, online discussion, and individual assignments. The implementation progresses according to a schedule and cannot be completed entirely at one's own pace.

Employer connections

Tasks are work-life-oriented and connected to the current times.

Exam schedules

No Exams

International connections

N/A

Completion alternatives

No optional implementations.

Student workload

27 h = 1 cr.
135 h= 5 cr.
TOTAL 135 h of student work.

Content scheduling

-

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student demonstrates that they understand the basic content of the course but there are shortcomings in their ability to independently acquire and interpret information and apply what they have learned.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student demonstrates that they have a good understanding of the content of the course. They actively acquire information and interpret the key connections between different pieces of information. The student has the ability to analyse what they have learned and to apply it in practice.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student demonstrates that they have a diverse and broad understanding of the content of the course. They possess excellent information acquisition skills that are suited to the purpose at hand. The student demonstrates independence and responsibility in the choices they make. They have a creative and broad-based ability to apply what they have learned in practice.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Approved: The student demonstrates that they understand the basic content of the course but there are shortcomings in their ability to independently acquire and interpret information and apply what they have learned in practice.

Assessment methods and criteria

Active participation in collaborative work (passed - failed)
Assignments included in the course in Moodle (passed - needs to be completed - failed).
Assessment: Personal development plan (passed - needs to be completed - failed)

Further information

RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning)
The course can be accredited with prior Master’s degree level studies the contents of which correspond to the contents of this course, or with strong competence with similar content obtained in other ways.

Further information

RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning)
The course can be accredited with prior Master’s degree level studies the contents of which correspond to the contents of this course, or with strong competence with similar content obtained in other ways.