Table 3.

Suggested recommendations for incorporating digital literacy education into undergraduate pharmacy programs.

Key recommendation	Specific recommendations
Acknowledge the rapidly evolving landscape of DHT: DHT is constantly evolving, and healthcare professionals must be able to adapt and stay up to date with new developments to provide the best possible care.	Emphasize foundational knowledge by providing students with a basic foundation in digital literacy to adapt to new DHTs such as digital medicine, genomics, artificial intelligent, and robotics. Identify advanced competencies which can be offered in a postgraduate or workforce training. Educators to keep up to date with emerging technology and explore how best to incorporate into the curriculum, for example, via continuous professional development, membership of workforce development or specialist interest, groups
Report educational interventions in a standardized approach: Standardized reporting ensures that interventions are adequately described, evaluated, replicated, and applied in different contexts, allowing for better assessments of effectiveness and reproducibility.	Use of standardized reporting guidelines such as template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) and the guideline for reporting evidence-based practice educational interventions and teaching (GREET) to report digital health interventions in a consistent and transparent manner.84,85
Ensure constructive alignment between learning objectives, educational interventions, and assessment: Constructive alignment ensures that the interventions and assessments are appropriate for developing necessary knowledge and skills and that the assessment is an appropriate measurement of that knowledge and skills.	Ensure that the learning objectives align with the necessary knowledge and skills for developing digital health literacy. Develop educational interventions that are designed to achieve these learning objectives. Design assessments that appropriately align to the objectives and educational experience.
Partnership with stakeholders to facilitate development of digital literacy courses: Collaboration with stakeholders, including other educational institutions and digital health companies, facilitates student access to the necessary resources to develop their digital literacy skills and stay up to date with the latest DHTs.	Collaborate with other educational institutions, practitioners, and industry partners to provide access to necessary skills, expertise, and resources. Establish partnerships with health technology vendors to facilitate training and support for digital health technologies.