Clinical Immersion Program to Enhance Interdisciplinary Biomedical Engineering Senior Capstone Design

项目摘要 科罗拉多州立大学(CSU)生物医学工程(BME)本科学生 完成两个学士学位，在BME和一个伙伴专业的机械工程， 化学和生物工程，或电气工程。在整个五年 课程，这些学生精通数学、生物医学科学和他们选择的 工程学专业化。CSU为期两个学期的BME高级顶石设计课程的大部分内容 专注于医疗器械设计，对于年轻的生物医学工程师来说，花费 在诊所真正了解环境和必须考虑的限制的时间 医疗器械的成功设计。然而，作为一所不隶属于 医学院，CSU的BME学生很少有机会获得显著的 暴露在临床环境中。这项提议的总体目标是加强现有的 CSU基于跨学科团队的BME高级顶石设计课程，通过提供 科罗拉多大学健康医学中心夏季临床沉浸项目 落基山脉，二级创伤中心。复发的七周全日制临床浸泡 高三之前的暑假体验将包括一周的轮换 通过特定的专业领域：麻醉、创伤和急诊手术、骨科 外科、心脏病学、心血管外科、肺内科、新生儿科和 介入放射学。在前一年夏天增加了临床浸入式课程 BME高级顶石设计课程将允许参加该计划的学生 在需求评估和项目确定方面，因为他们与临床医生合作开发想法 这可以纳入该学年的开放式高级设计项目中。是这样的 项目将由一名临床医生和一名行业合作伙伴共同建议，因此从事 项目可以受益于感兴趣的设备/技术的实际使用方面的专业知识，如 以及设备/技术开发所需的设计和监管流程。 这些经历将为学生在医疗器械领域竞争激烈的职业生涯做好更好的准备 开发和技术，以及由此产生的高级设计项目将有助于 医学的进步和病人护理的改善。

Project Summary Biomedical Engineering (BME) undergraduate students at Colorado State University (CSU) complete two B.S. degrees, in BME and a partner major of either Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, or Electrical Engineering. Throughout the five year curriculum, these students become proficient in math, biomedical science, and their chosen engineering specialization. Much of CSU's two-semester BME Senior Capstone Design course focuses on medical device design, and it is important for young biomedical engineers to spend time in the clinic to truly understand the environment and constraints that must be considered for successful design of medical devices. However, as a university that is not affiliated with a medical school, there are very few opportunities for CSU's BME students to gain significant exposure to clinical settings. The overall goal of this proposal is to enhance the existing interdisciplinary team-based BME Senior Capstone Design course at CSU by providing a summer clinical immersion program at University of Colorado Health Medical Center of the Rockies, a Level II Trauma Center. The recurring seven week full-time clinical immersion experience during the summer before senior year will be comprised of one week rotations through specific specialty areas: Anesthesia, Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery, Pulmonary Medicine, Neonatology and Interventional Radiology. Addition of the clinical immersion program during the summer before the BME Senior Capstone Design course will allow for the students in this program to participate in needs assessment and project identification as they work with clinicians to co-develop ideas that can be incorporated into open-ended senior design projects for that academic year. Such projects will be co-advised by a clinician and an industry partner, so students working on the project can benefit from expertise in both practical use of the device/technology of interest as well as the design and regulatory processes required for development of the device/technology. These experiences will better prepare students for competitive careers in medical device development and technologies, and the resulting senior design projects will contribute to advances in medicine and improved patient care.