USING CLINICAL IMMERSION AS AN EMPATHETIC TRAINING TOOL IN MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVAT

在医疗设备创新中使用临床沉浸作为共情训练工具

• 批准号: 9091555
• 负责人: JAMES AGUTTER
• 金额: $ 3.89万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9091555
• 关键词: Address; Architecture; Biomedical Engineering; Businesses; Clinic; Clinical; Development; Device Designs; Devices; Economics; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Enrollment; Environment; Ethics; Family; Fostering; Foundations; Future; Generations; Goals; Health; Healthcare; Healthcare Industry; Human; Immersion Investigative Technique; Industry; Interdisciplinary Study; Interview; Knowledge; Marketing; Medical; Medical Device; Medical Device Designs; Medical Students; Mentors; Methodology; Needs Assessment; Participant; Patients; Process; Public Health; Quality of life; Resources; Role; Rotation; Students; System; Technology; Thinking; Training; Training Programs; Translating; Universities; Utah; Work; base; career; clinically relevant; commercialization; cost effective; design; empowered; engineering design; experience; feeding; ideation; improved; innovation; lectures; medical schools; meetings; multidisciplinary; novel; patient oriented; programs; prototype; social; student training; tool; undergraduate student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long term goal of the proposed activities is to develop a comprehensive medical device design training program with clinical immersion as a cornerstone of this training. Clinical immersion will provide design engineers with a variety of perspectives and better prepares them to understand clinical problems to develop novel, innovative solutions. Environments like the University of Utah are uniquely suited to educate, develop and translate the needs of the clinic into market-ready solutions. Currently, the Department of Bioengineering offers a year-long, undergraduate medical device design program (Utah bioDesign). Utah bioDesign partners student design teams with clinician inspired ideas to develop and prototype medical products. Although the students benefit tremendously from their clinician mentor, they lack in-depth clinical experience and a perspective that considers the patient for design input. The plan that we outline in this proposal partners various resources at the University of Utah including the Bioengineering bioDesign program, Honors Think Tank and the School of Medicine to develop an empathetic, clinically centered experience for the engineering and design students. Our program goals will be accomplished through three specific aims. In the first aim we will combine a portion of the bioDesign program with the Honors Think Tank program. The current bioDesign program focuses on medical device design within the regulatory framework of the FDA and the Think Tank focuses on empathetic innovation in healthcare through design thinking. Cross cultivating ideas across these programs will expose students to a variety of design perspectives that extend past disciplinary boundaries. In the second aim we will develop a summer clinical immersion program as a training tool for empathetic innovation and user needs assessment. Students will participate in clinical rotations to observe the clinical environment, interview patients and their families, and meet with clinicians and medical students to understand medical products from a different perspective. In the third specific aim, clinical immersion participants will act as team consultants for bioDesign and Honors Think Tank courses and provide each team with a unique, multiple perspective consultancy experience to incorporate into their designs. Through these aims, we plan to combine portions of bioDesign and Honors Think Tank classes to expose engineering students to empathetic design thinking and the patient perspective, and non-engineering students to regulatory mandates. An inclusive perspective that results from a combination of multidisciplinary collaboration and clinical immersion helps to build a foundation of knowledge and experience that is required for new innovations in the health care industry. The proposed clinical immersion program will provide student teams an opportunity to refine their medical device designs and concepts based upon new perspectives. In addition to refining their design inputs, students will develop new ideas based upon clinical observation and experiences during the second half of the immersion experience. These ideas will then be developed by future bioDesign classes, refined through clinical immersion, and fed into the ideation engine at the University of Utah. By allowing students to actively observe clinical environments and communicate with patients and clinicians, we hope to provide an educational experience not only from a technological and regulatory perspective, but also a human centered design perspective. This full bodied educational experience will train a new generation of professionals capable of working in a multidisciplinary team identifying and translating real world problems into patient-centered solutions within the regulatory framework of the FDA.

描述(由申请者提供)：拟议活动的长期目标是开发一个以临床浸入式为基础的综合医疗器械设计培训计划。临床沉浸将为设计工程师提供不同的视角，并使他们更好地准备了解临床问题，以开发新的创新解决方案。像犹他大学这样的环境非常适合教育、开发诊所的需求，并将其转化为市场就绪的解决方案。目前，生物工程系提供为期一年的本科生医疗器械设计课程(犹他州生物设计)。犹他州生物设计合作伙伴学生设计团队具有临床医生灵感的想法，以开发和原型医疗产品。虽然学生从他们的临床医生导师那里受益匪浅，但他们缺乏深入的临床经验和考虑患者设计意见的视角。我们在这份提案中概述的计划与犹他大学的各种资源合作，包括生物工程生物设计项目、荣誉智库和医学院，为工程和设计专业的学生开发具有同理心的、以临床为中心的体验。我们的计划目标将通过三个具体目标来实现。在第一个目标中，我们将把生物设计计划的一部分与荣誉智库计划结合起来。目前的生物设计项目专注于FDA监管框架内的医疗器械设计，智库通过设计思维专注于医疗保健领域的同理心创新。在这些项目中交叉培养思想将使学生接触到各种设计视角，这些视角延伸到过去的学科界限。在第二个目标中，我们将开发一个夏季临床沉浸计划，作为同理心创新和用户需求评估的培训工具。学生将参与临床轮换，观察临床环境，采访患者及其家属，并会见临床医生和医学生，从不同的角度了解医疗产品。在第三个具体目标中，临床浸入式参与者将担任生物设计和荣誉智库课程的团队顾问，为每个团队提供独特的、多角度的咨询体验，以融入他们的设计中。通过这些目标，我们计划将生物设计和荣誉智库课程的部分内容结合起来，让工程学学生接触到同理心的设计思维和耐心的观点，并让非工程学学生接触到监管规定。多学科协作和临床沉浸相结合的包容性视角有助于建立医疗保健行业新创新所需的知识和经验基础。拟议的临床沉浸计划将为学生团队提供一个机会，基于新的视角来完善他们的医疗器械设计和概念。除了完善他们的设计输入，学生还将在临床观察和经验的基础上发展新的想法，在沉浸体验的后半段。这些想法随后将由未来的生物设计课程开发，通过临床沉浸进行提炼，并输入犹他大学的构思引擎。通过让学生主动观察临床环境，并与患者和临床医生交流，我们希望提供一种教育体验，不仅是从技术和监管角度，而且是从以人为中心的设计角度。这一成熟的教育经验将培养新一代专业人员，他们能够在多学科团队中工作，识别现实世界的问题，并在FDA的监管框架内将其转化为以患者为中心的解决方案。