Innovation at the Cutting Edge

外科手术，由于依赖于手工技能，使得技术创新可以在病人护理方面取得惊人的进步。现在一个常见的例子是微创手术。要解决不断上升的医疗成本和迅速增长的人口老龄化问题，迫切需要这些进步。今天的外科创新与i)设备，ii)外科医生培训，iii)模拟，iv)诊断，v)患者和护理路径跟踪，vi)降低风险，vii)手术计划，viii)减少技能和结果变化的工具，例如切割和钻孔指南，ix)愈合监测和ix)康复**这个工业流CREATE提案为准备进入手术设备领域的毕业生提供了一个独特的机会。我们已经开发了一种跨学科的基于团队的研究生教育方法，结合了École de Technologie supsamrieur (ETS)，麦吉尔外科学系，约翰莫尔森商学院（JMSB），工程和计算机科学，康科迪亚大学的专业知识，所有这些都位于蒙特利尔市中心，彼此相距最多1.5公里。学员将与我们的15个行业合作伙伴进行实习，以发展他们的技术和专业技能。**我们的方法有两个颠覆性但令人兴奋的方面：i)学生在外科-商业-自然科学与工程（NSE）团队中工作，周期为一年；ii)他们的培训重点是创新的过程。我们采用十多年前斯坦福大学首创的外科创新教育模式，首次在加拿大开展。我们的行业合作伙伴就博士和硕士毕业生的专业技能不足进行了调查，我们制定了一个计划来解决这些问题。博士和PDRF作为创新项目经理进一步参与，并获得工商管理证书。****

Surgery, by its reliance on manual skills, lends itself to technological innovation that can resulting in staggering advances in patient care. A now common example is minimally invasive surgery. Such advances are desperately needed to address spiralling healthcare costs and a rapidly growing ageing population. Surgical innovation today is relevant to i) Devices, ii) Surgeon Training, iii) Simulation, iv) Diagnosis, v) Patient and Care Pathway Tracking, vi) Risk Reduction, vii) Surgical planning, viii) Tools to reduce variability in skill and outcome, e.g. cutting and drill guides, ix) Healing monitoring and ix) Rehabilitation**This industrial stream CREATE proposal provides a unique opportunity for graduate trainees preparing to enter the surgical devices sector. We have developed a cross-disciplinary team based approach to graduate education combining the expertise of École de Technologie Supérieur (ETS), McGill Department of Surgery, John Molson School of Business, (JMSB), and Engineering and Computer Sciences, Concordia University all located within a maximum of 1.5km of each other in downtown Montreal. Trainees undertake internships with our 15 industrial partners to develop their technical and professional skills.**There are two disruptive yet exciting aspects to our approach i) the students work in surgeon-business-Natural Science and Engineering (NSE) teams for cycles of one year and ii) the emphasis of their training is the process of innovation. We apply a surgical innovation education model first instigated at Stanford University over a decade ago for the first time in Canada. Our industrial partners were surveyed regarding professional skills deficits encountered in PhD and Masters recruits and we assembled a program to address them. PhD and PDRF participate further as innovation project managers and gain a Certificate in Business Administration.****