Learning the Language of Medical Device Innovation: A Longitudinal Interdisciplinary Elective for Medical Students.
Learning the Language of Medical Device Innovation: A Longitudinal Interdisciplinary Elective for Medical Students.
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10.1097/acm.0000000000004723
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发表时间：
2022-09-01
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7.4
通讯作者：
Page, Christopher R.
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Maloney, Lauren M.;Hakimi, Mathew;Hays, Thomas;Adachi, Joseph;Chau, Annie;Esper, Brecken S.;Koulouris, Vasilios;Kung, Preston;Meier, Karl R.;Schum, Ryan S.;Sha, Sha;Wong, Ada;Wu, Ariel;Yin, Wei;Page, Christopher R.
医生作为临床创新者正在发挥越来越大的作用。学术医生处于有利地位，有助于医疗器械创新过程，但很少有医学院的课程为学生提供机会，学习临床需求发现，需求筛选，概念生成和迭代原型设计，以及知识产权管理的概念框架。该框架支持创新，鼓励发展有价值的跨学科沟通技能和协作学习策略。我们的大学提供了一个新的为期3年的医学生纵向跨学科选修生物设计（MSLIEB），教医疗器械创新的4个阶段：（1）研讨会和小组工作，（2）分享临床经验的需求发现，（3）概念生成和产品开发，作为生物医学工程顶点项目的顾问，以及（4）反思和指导。MSLIEB的目标是：在生物医学工程本科生和医学生之间建立纵向跨学科的同行指导关系;并鼓励共同发展与医疗器械创新相关的专业身份。MSLIEB从2017-2021年招募了5个进入队列，共有37名医学生参与者。第一批完整入学的12名医学生产生了8个指导的生物医学工程顶层项目，其中7个是基于选修课早期得出的临床需求陈述。医学生参与者共同撰写了海报和口头报告，为赢得WolfieTank的项目做出了贡献，WolfieTank是一个以电视节目Shark Tank为蓝本的全校范围的比赛，并参与了临时专利的申请。反思课程的学生报告说，他们对现有医疗问题的态度发生了变化，感觉更有能力为临床需求协同设计解决方案，并考虑了设备设计的潜在职业道路。MSLIEB将通过招募更多的教师，扩大临床机会，包括门诊设置，并增加医学生获得快速成型设备。
Physicians are playing a growing role as clinician-innovators. Academic physicians are well-positioned to contribute to the medical device innovation process, and yet few medical school curricula provide students opportunities to learn the conceptual framework for clinical needs finding, needs screening, concept generation and iterative prototyping, and intellectual property management. This framework supports innovation and encourages the development valuable interdisciplinary communication skills and collaborative learning strategies. Our university offers a novel 3-year-long medical student Longitudinal Interdisciplinary Elective in Biodesign (MSLIEB) that teaches medical device innovation in 4 stages: (1) seminars and small group work, (2) shared clinical experiences for needs finding, (3) concept generation and product development by serving as consultants for biomedical engineering capstone projects, and (4) reflection and mentorship. The MSLIEB objectives are to: create a longitudinal interdisciplinary peer mentorship relationship between undergraduate biomedical engineering students and medical students; and encourage codevelopment of professional identities in relation to medical device innovation. The MSLIEB enrolled 5 entering cohorts from 2017–2021 with a total of 37 medical student participants. The first full entering cohort of 12 medical students produced 8 mentored biomedical engineering capstone projects, 7 of which were based on clinical needs statements derived from earlier in the elective. Medical student participants have coauthored poster and oral presentations, contributed to projects that won WolfieTank, a university-wide competition modeled after the television show Shark Tank, and participated in the filing of provisional patents. Students reflecting on the course reported a change in their attitude towards existing medical problems, felt better-equipped to collaboratively design solutions for clinical needs, and considered a potential career path in device design. The MSLIEB will be scaled-up by recruiting additional faculty, broadening clinical opportunities to include the outpatient setting, and increasing medical student access to rapid prototyping equipment.