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Healthcare delivery is undergoing an accelerated period of digital transformation, spurred in-part by the COVID-19 pandemic and the use of “virtual-first” care delivery models like telemedicine. Medical education has responded to this shift with calls for improved “digital health” training, but there is as yet no universal understanding of needed competencies, domains, and best practices for teaching these skills. In this paper, we argue that the inclusion of a “digital determinants of health” (DDoH) framework for understanding the intersections of health outcomes, health technology, and training is critical to the development of comprehensive digital health competencies in medical education; much like the current social determinants of health models, this framework should be further developed for undergraduate, graduate, and professional training and systematically incorporated into formal competency evaluations. We provide possible approaches to integrating this framework into competency development and training programs and explore priorities for future research in digitally-competent medical education.