NSERC CREATE 'Engineers in Scrubs' - Fostering Innovation in Medical Technology by Training Biomedical Engineers in the Clinical Environment

NSERC 创建“实习医生”——通过在临床环境中培训生物医学工程师来促进医疗技术创新

• 批准号: 397894-2011
• 负责人: Hodgson, Antony
• 金额: $ 21.86万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Training Experience
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=573066
• 关键词: NSERC; CREATE; Engineers; Scrubs; Fostering

In complex technology application areas such as healthcare, it is not enough for engineers to be technically competent - they need a deep experiential understanding and appreciation of the needs of the users of their technologies and the environment in which their technologies will be used if they are to work effectively at the interface between engineering research, medical research, clinical practise and product development. We know from the innovation literature that we must explicitly foster strong linkages between the academic laboratories where new technologies frequently originate, the clinical milieu in which the need for new technologies arises and the small medical device community where the initial stages of product development occur in order to ensure that we realize the greatest benefits possible from the insights generated in our research labs. We therefore propose an "Engineers in Scrubs" (EiS) training program in which biomedical engineering trainees do a significant portion of their training in the hospital and are explicitly trained in and participate in medical technology innovation processes, including a multidisciplinary medical technology design experience which will foster creativity, critical thinking and synthesis and integration between disciplines, all of which are skills highly desired by future employers. Highlights of the EiS program will be a month-long intensive introduction to the clinical world to be undertaken in the August just before the traditional start to the academic year, followed by a year-long interdisciplinary design project tightly linked to a structured and collaborative problem identification and prioritization process to be undertaken annually in each of our four major research clusters in biomedical engineering at UBC.

在医疗保健等复杂的技术应用领域，工程师仅仅具备技术能力是不够的，他们需要对技术用户的需求以及技术的使用环境有深入的经验理解和理解，才能在工程研究、医学研究、临床实践和产品开发之间有效地工作。 我们从创新文献中知道，我们必须明确地在经常产生新技术的学术实验室、产生新技术需求的临床环境以及产品开发初始阶段的小型医疗器械社区之间建立牢固的联系，以确保我们从研究实验室产生的见解中获得最大的利益。 因此，我们提出了“实习工程师”（EiS）培训计划，其中生物医学工程学员的大部分培训都是在医院进行的，并接受明确的培训和参与医疗技术创新流程，包括多学科医疗技术设计经验，这将培养创造力、批判性思维以及学科间的综合和整合，所有这些都是未来雇主高度期望的技能。 EiS 项目的亮点将是在传统学年开始前的 8 月份对临床世界进行为期一个月的深入介绍，随后是为期一年的跨学科设计项目，该项目与每年在 UBC 生物医学工程的四个主要研究集群中进行的结构化和协作性问题识别和优先级排序过程紧密相关。