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The Clinical Innovation and Design program is open to BSBME/MSE Integrated students in their 5th year (or first year of graduate standing) and to Dell Medical students in their 3rd year. BSBME/MSE students may complete this program as a component of their master's degree. Dell Medical students can complete this program as a distinction or as a component of the MD/MSE Dual Degree program. 

Program Contacts

Chair

Co-Chair

Coordinator

Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert
sakiyama@utexas.edu

Carlos Mery
cmery@austin.utexas.edu

Elizabeth O. McCullum (Dell)
elizabeth.mccullum@austin.utexas.edu
Lacy White (BME)
lacy.white@utexas.edu

Program Summary

Designing meaningful solutions to the current pressing needs in health care requires a variety of complex skills, including the ability to identify meaningful problems, design thinking to find creative solutions, and entrepreneurship to implement them. The Clinical Innovation and Design program offers medical students and BME master's students the opportunity to actively learn the process of medical technology and process innovation by working with biomedical engineering graduate students in a structured and mentored experience. As part of the program, students will identify concrete clinical needs and address them through technology.

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Fall: BME 385J Biodesign: Innovation and Design I (3 credit hours) and BME 385J Biodesign: Needs Identification (3 credit hours)

Spring: BME 385J Biodesign: Innovation and Design II (3 credit hours) and BME 385J Biodesign: Entrepreneurship (3 credit hours)


Month

Activity

August

After taking USMLE Step 1, comingle with MD/MA Design students in the following Design School (optional) courses to begin the second week of August:

  • Introduction to Design Thinking (DES 388)
  • 3D prototyping class (DES 19X)
September - October
  • Needs Assessment
  • Bootcamp/Lectures (regulatory, reimbursement, IP, design thinking, biodesign process, basics of congenital heart disease, clinical needs finding, clinical etiquette, etc)
  • Clinical immersion (ICU, OR, clinics) - 4 weeks
  • Clinical needs compilation

Deliverable: list of clinical needs, 3-5 selected needs, 1-page problem statement and presentation

November - December
  • Market and Technology Assessment
  • IP search, regulatory review
  • Refinement of clinical needs
  • Design criteria specification
  • Interviews/literature search/initial client assessment

Deliverable: research in 3-5 needs, selection of 2 needs, design criteria for selected 2 needs, preliminary business case / presentation

January - March
  • Concept brainstorming and creation
  • Initial prototyping and testing
  • Iterative user research
  • Needs refinement
Deliverable: 1-2 viable concepts and initial prototypes / presentation
April - May
  • Refinement of concepts
  • Provisional patent submission
  • Creation of business plan/research project
Final Deliverable (Mid-May): business plan / research project, pitch


Virtual Information Session

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CID bootcamp typically takes place the full week prior to the beginning of fall classes. Attendance at the CID bootcamp is mandatory.

Grading Rubric

Fail

Pass

Honors

Did not meet the expectations as listed in Pass

Achieved all areas below:

  • Timely completion of deliverables (as stated in the timeline)
  • Timely submission of a business plan / research project
  • Local presentation of project
  • Initial prototype of concept(s)
  • Professionalism standards upheld
  • Achieved expected level of advancing/attained on all competency categories (see ILD rubric)

Achieved all areas defined in Pass in addition to one of the below:

  • Submission of provisional patent application
  • Having a functional second-iteration prototype
  • Presentation of business plan / research project to at least one outside group