Table 2.
Topics of the highest-scoring dissertations of the 2 cohorts and components of identity that were incorporated.
| Dissertation topic | Critical thinking | Goal orientation | Mentoring | Reflection |
| BYODa policy design and development for NHSb Trusts |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
| Board level digital readiness | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
| Blueprint for digital excellence in the development of a new hospital | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Implementing recommendations of Topol review |
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
| Impact of digital working on patient care | ✓ | ✓ |
|
✓ |
| Improving performance of a cardiorespiratory outpatient department | ✓ | ✓ |
|
✓ |
| App to reduce suicide and self-harming and improve safety and clinical outcomes in mental health | ✓ | ✓ |
|
✓ |
| Standards and processes for sharing data across platforms and organizations | ✓ | ✓ |
|
|
| Blueprint for digital first GPc | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Participant preferences for contact and clinical research study enrollment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Evaluating impact of digital maturity on effectiveness and efficiency of care in adolescent inpatient mental health units | ✓ | ✓ |
|
✓ |
| Digital transformation of epilepsy care and monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
|
✓ |
| Implementing SNOMED-CTd coding into an EHRe for clinical decision support, data sharing and medical pathway transformation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Direct web-based advice from consultant psychiatrists to GPs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Returning health professionals living with cancer to work via a digital resource | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enabling effective and appropriate use of virtual consultations with adolescents in psychiatry specialty settings | ✓ | ✓ |
|
✓ |
| An impact analysis of Morse system implementation and mobile device use by health visitors in rural Scotland | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
|
| Optimizing remote access to primary care during COVID-19: a focus on patients with moderate to severe mental health needs | ✓ | ✓ |
|
✓ |
| Making quite voices louder: addressing health inequalities for people with moderate to severe mental health illness | ✓ | ✓ |
|
✓ |
| Digitally enabling primary care beyond the COVID-19 pandemic |
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
| The impact of digital tools and ways of working on staff burnout and enjoyment of work in psychiatry | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Optimizing culture of collaboration and learning to tackle health inequalities: a study of digital health Canada | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Digital delivery: the future of UK diabetes education | ✓ | ✓ |
|
✓ |
| Impact of the implementation of a critical care information system on patient-facing clinical staff in an intensive care unit during the COVID-19 pandemic | ✓ | ✓ |
|
✓ |
| The key components of organizational culture for a digital first strategy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| The relationship between funding and the digital maturity of NHS provider organizations | ✓ | ✓ |
|
✓ |
| Partnership between health care provider organizations and industry in adopting AIf into health care practice | ✓ | ✓ |
|
|
| A framework for effective prioritization of digital transformation projects in recently merged secondary care organizations | ✓ | ✓ |
|
✓ |
| Best practices for digital inclusion in at risk pediatric populations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Transformation at pace and scale by EPRg sharing among high and low digitally mature hospital systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
aBYOD: bring your own device.
bNHS: National Health Service.
cGP: general practitioner.
dSNOMED-CT: Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms.
eEHR: electronic health record.
fAI: artificial intelligence.
gEPR: electronic patient record.