Digital Literacy Training for Digitalization Officers (“Digi-Managers”) in Outpatient Medical and Psychotherapeutic Care: Conceptualization and Longitudinal Evaluation of a Certificate Course

Training programs on digital topics for health care professionals are necessary, and this certification course is a role model for successful further education through a mixture of theoretical knowledge transfer and practical application. Especially, the use of a digital maturity model and a digital laboratory was a unique and useful feature. Further research needs to go into alternative assessment methods of digital literacy, as the results suggest that self-assessment measures self-efficacy and confidence, rather than pure competence. Nevertheless, the increase in self-assessed competence suggests that the training was successful.