Clinical Immersion Program to Enhance Interdisciplinary Biomedical Engineering Senior Capstone Design

项目概要 科罗拉多州立大学 (CSU) 生物医学工程 (BME) 本科生 完成两个学士学位BME 学位和机械工程合作专业， 化学和生物工程，或电气工程。整个五年 通过课程，这些学生精通数学、生物医学以及他们选择的学科 工程专业。科罗拉多州立大学两学期 BME 高级顶点设计课程的大部分内容 专注于医疗器械设计，年轻生物医学工程师花很重要 在诊所的时间真正了解必须考虑的环境和限制 成功设计医疗设备。然而，作为一所不隶属于大学的大学 医学院，CSU 的 BME 学生很少有机会获得显着的成果 暴露于临床环境。该提案的总体目标是增强现有的 科罗拉多州立大学基于跨学科团队的 BME 高级顶点设计课程，提供 科罗拉多大学健康医学中心夏季临床浸入式项目 落基山脉，二级创伤中心。持续七周的全日制临床沉浸 高年级前夏季的经验将包括一周的轮换 特定专业领域：麻醉、创伤和急症护理手术、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。之前夏天增加了临床浸入式项目 BME 高级顶点设计课程将允许该项目的学生参与 与临床医生合作共同开发想法，进行需求评估和项目识别 可以纳入该学年的开放式高级设计项目。这样的 项目将由临床医生和行业合作伙伴共同提供建议，因此从事该项目的学生 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，例如 以及设备/技术开发所需的设计和监管流程。 这些经验将使学生更好地为医疗器械领域的竞争性职业做好准备 开发和技术，以及由此产生的高级设计项目将有助于 医学的进步和患者护理的改善。

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.