An already crowded medical school curriculum and no expectation by accreditation bodies that graduates should be able to use digital technologies in practice means the doctors of tomorrow are not being adequately prepared for eHealth, a new study has found.

The study, led by Sisira Edirippulige from the University of Queensland's Centre for Online Health, involved interviews with all 19 medical schools in Australia and is a follow-up to a 2012 study that found that the medical workforce was not being adequately educated to achieve competence to work with eHealth.