Introduction

Digital Healthcare combines software technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, and wearable devices, which are key technologies in the era of the 4th industrial revolution, with medical health and healthcare.

We cultivate innovative talents in the healthcare field who can develop specialized software specialized in the healthcare field and provide intelligent services. In the 3rd and 4th grades, students majoring in digital healthcare will participate in the in-school capstone design competition to realize the ideas of students majoring in digital healthcare to create their own works and cultivate talented people with creative comprehensive design skills.

Entering the 2000s, the revolution of advanced information technology took place, and at the same time, it became an era in which incurable diseases that cannot be treated with modern medical technology without advanced medical equipment could not be solved. Therefore, the digital healthcare major educates engineering principles and technologies applied to medicine through the combination of medical technology and information technology.

Digital healthcare majors will receive more than 21.65 billion won for five years from 22 to 26 by selecting universities participating in the Local Government-University Cooperation-Based Regional Innovation Project (RIS Project) organized by the Ministry of Education, fostering innovation, convergence, and practical talents to strengthen technological competitiveness, such as scholarship support and facility and equipment replacement.

In Korea, it is designated as a next-generation national promising industry and is concentrated, so the speed of development is expected to accelerate further, and it is urgent to cultivate and supply professional manpower.

Educational Objectives

• Training AI, IoT and ICT technologies in healthcare and healthcare.
• Education for the development of technologies that improve human health.
• Cultivate software and ICT development talents with expertise in healthcare.

Targeted Training Personnel

The Digital Healthcare major is a high value-added convergence field of medicine and engineering, and aims to cultivate global professional technicians through convergent knowledge, enthusiasm, and personality necessary for the operation and management of bio-signal measurement, analysis devices, diagnosis and treatment devices targeting the human body based on the medical device industry, basic medicine, and clinical medicine to prepare for a welfare society incorporating the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence after the 4th industrial revolution.

1. Training of specialists in medical devices - education based on major and basic studies
   - Manpower training through major requirements and major selection
   - Training based on basic theory and discipline
2. Fostering hands-on talent – hands-on acquisition through on-the-job training and tutoring
   - Conducting practical training through on-the-job training during vacation and semester
   - Train personalized talent through corporate tutoring
3. Cultivating global talent – Engaging in domestic and international conferences and attending exhibitions
   - Participation and presentation of domestic and international conferences through department-specific labs.
   - Cultivating global talent by visiting medical device exhibitions at home and abroad
4. Cultivating creative talent – participating in various competitions such as Capstone Design
   - Regular attendance at the school's Capstone Design Competition
   - National Engineering Festivals regularly attend general creative design competitions

Careers after Graduation

• Various medical institutions - General hospitals, oriental medicine hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, general hospitals, specialized medical device companies, etc.
• Public health officials - National Health Insurance Corporation, Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, Health Industry Promotion Agency, Korean Sports Council and sports-related fields, etc.
• National Research Institutions - Medical and Mechatronics Research Institutions
• Large companies and specialized medical institutions - related conglomerates, small and medium enterprises, such as medicine, biology, electronics, information and communications, software, etc.
• Go to graduate school, study abroad.
• Catholic Kwandong University Medical College International St. Mary's Hospital

Course Roadmap

Related Certifications

Related certificates include medical engineers, medical information managers, medical electronic technicians, health information technicians, information processing technicians, electronic device technicians, electric industry engineers, electricians, medical device RA experts, quality management technicians, office automation technicians, Linux international certificates, and Java international certificates.