Innovation at the Cutting Edge

外科手术依赖于手工技能，有助于技术创新，从而在患者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。为了应对螺旋式上升的医疗成本和快速增长的老龄化人口，迫切需要这样的进步。当今的外科创新与一)设备、二)外科医生培训、三)模拟、四)诊断、五)病人和护理路径跟踪、六)降低风险、七)手术规划、八)减少技能和结果的可变性的工具有关，例如切割和钻探指南、九)愈合监测和九)康复 这一产业流创造提案为准备进入外科器械行业的毕业生实习生提供了一个独特的机会。我们开发了一种基于跨学科团队的研究生教育方法，结合了位于蒙特利尔市中心的联邦理工学院(ETS)、麦吉尔外科系、约翰·莫尔森商学院(JMSB)和康科迪亚大学工程与计算机科学学院的专业知识。学员与我们的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)他们培训的重点是创新过程。十多年前，斯坦福大学首次在加拿大推行外科创新教育模式。我们的行业合作伙伴被调查了博士和硕士招聘中遇到的专业技能缺陷，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.