Working in Partnership With Health Professional Students to Understand their Perceptions of Digital Identity Management and to Embed Digital Skills into the Curriculum

Background: Within the University of Glasgow’s College of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences (MVLS) there are several degree programmes which have associated Professional bodies that publish guidelines for social media use and misuse. But how do our students actually feel about the advice and guidance that is provided to them? Can they apply these guidelines to their own experiences in University? What are the motivators for our students to pursue their identity management and what are the challenges that they currently perceive with behaving professionally in a digital environment? Methods: All of the undergraduate students on degree programmes within the College of MVLW were invited to participate in a needs analysis survey. This presentation will communicate the results of this study, which identified digital identity management, professionalism in an online environment, digital wellbeing, productivity skills including management of digital distractions, and communication and collaboration online as key topics that students wanted more guidance on. Forty student partners from across the schools worked in collaboration with staff focusing on potential challenges, solutions, and opportunities for curriculum developments in these areas. Face-to-face and online teaching resources that will encourage student reflection on both their personal and professional development as they transition through their degree programme were created based on their insights. The presentation will focus on the development of digital citizenship skills that our students have identified as key graduate attributes that will help them strive throughout their University Career and within their future work place and how to embed the development of these skills into the curriculum. The presentation will also focus on the benefits of working in partnership with students to enhance curriculum developmen