Uniting for Leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous Medical Instrumentation, Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Design (UnLIMITED) Training Program

医疗器械制造业是加拿大经济发展的重要引擎。到2025年，加拿大的目标是成为健康和生物科学领域的前三大全球供应商，医疗设备占30%的份额。医疗器械制造的卓越不仅取决于技术创新，还取决于用户群体的接受度。技术创新既包括设计，也包括创业，前者是手段，后者是目的，但用户社区参与也是培训未来企业家的关键部分，特别是与土著客户合作。拟议中的项目--联合为领先的土著和非土著医疗器械、技术、创业和设计(无限制)--将是加拿大第一个从工程和土著镜片两方面培训高素质医疗器械设计创新和创业人才的计划。除了培训课程，该计划还有三个目标：(1)倡导医疗器械的系统设计创新，(2)倡导医疗器械的创业创新，以及(3)倡导文化设计创新，特别是为了理解和将本土知识融入医疗器械。该计划可以嵌入到加拿大大专院校生物医学和保健工程领域的任何研究生项目中，具体而言，受训人员在萨斯喀彻温大学、滑铁卢大学和不列颠哥伦比亚大学的10名教职员工以及合作的杰出学者、商界领袖和土著社区领袖的指导下，完成硕士和博士学位的论文要求。UNLIMITED将通过为土著和非土著医疗专家提供相互学习的机会，促进致力于医疗器械设计非殖民化和加拿大更公平经济发展的受训人员的进步，以期在社会和谐中改善加拿大人的健康。

The manufacturing of medical devices is an important engine to Canadian economic development. By 2025, Canada aims to be a top-three global provider in the health and bioscience sector with medical devices taking a 30% share. Excellence in medical devices manufacturing relies not only on technological innovation but also user community acceptance. Technological innovation embraces both design and entrepreneurship with the former as the means and the latter as the end, but user community engagement is also a key part of training future entrepreneurs, especially to work with Indigenous clients. The proposed program, Uniting for Leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous Medical Instrumentation, Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Design (UnLIMITED), will be the first program in Canada to train highly qualified personnel in systematic medical device design innovation and entrepreneurship from both engineering and Indigenous lenses. The program has three goals along with the training curricula: (1) championing systematic design innovation in medical devices, (2) championing entrepreneurship innovation in medical devices, and (3) championing cultural design innovation, specifically for understanding and incorporation Indigenous knowledge into medical devices. The program can be embedded into any graduate program in the field of biomedical and healthcare engineering in Canadian post-secondary institutions, where specifically the trainees fulfill the thesis requirement for Master and PhD under the supervision of mentors who are 10 faculty members of University of Saskatchewan, University of Waterloo, and University of British Columbia along with collaborating distinguished scholars, business leaders, and Indigenous community leaders. UnLIMITED will contribute to the advancement of trainees committed to decolonization of medical device design and more equitable economic development of Canada through scaffolding opportunities for Indigenous and non-Indigenous medical specialists to learn alongside each other with a mutual goal of improving the health of Canadians in social harmony.