USING CLINICAL IMMERSION AS AN EMPATHETIC TRAINING TOOL IN MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVAT

在医疗设备创新中使用临床沉浸作为共情训练工具

• 批准号: 8265169
• 负责人: JAMES AGUTTER
• 金额: $ 3.68万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8265169
• 关键词: Address; Architecture; Biomedical Engineering; Businesses; Clinic; Clinical; Development; Device Designs; Devices; Economics; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Enrollment; Environment; Ethics; Family; Fostering; Foundations; Future; Generations; Goals; Health; Healthcare; Healthcare Industry; Human; Immersion Investigative Technique; Industry; Interdisciplinary Study; Interview; Knowledge; Marketing; Medical; Medical Device; Medical Device Designs; Medical Students; Mentors; Methodology; Needs Assessment; Participant; Patients; Process; Public Health; Quality of life; Resources; Role; Rotation; Simulate; Solutions; Students; System; Technology; Thinking; Training; Training Programs; Translating; Universities; Utah; Work; base; career; clinically relevant; commercialization; cost effective; design; empowered; engineering design; experience; feeding; ideation; improved; innovation; lectures; medical schools; meetings; multidisciplinary; novel; patient oriented; programs; prototype; social; tool; undergraduate student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long term goal of the proposed activities is to develop a comprehensive medical device design training program with clinical immersion as a cornerstone of this training. Clinical immersion will provide design engineers with a variety of perspectives and better prepares them to understand clinical problems to develop novel, innovative solutions. Environments like the University of Utah are uniquely suited to educate, develop and translate the needs of the clinic into market-ready solutions. Currently, the Department of Bioengineering offers a year-long, undergraduate medical device design program (Utah bioDesign). Utah bioDesign partners student design teams with clinician inspired ideas to develop and prototype medical products. Although the students benefit tremendously from their clinician mentor, they lack in-depth clinical experience and a perspective that considers the patient for design input. The plan that we outline in this proposal partners various resources at the University of Utah including the Bioengineering bioDesign program, Honors Think Tank and the School of Medicine to develop an empathetic, clinically centered experience for the engineering and design students. Our program goals will be accomplished through three specific aims. In the first aim we will combine a portion of the bioDesign program with the Honors Think Tank program. The current bioDesign program focuses on medical device design within the regulatory framework of the FDA and the Think Tank focuses on empathetic innovation in healthcare through design thinking. Cross cultivating ideas across these programs will expose students to a variety of design perspectives that extend past disciplinary boundaries. In the second aim we will develop a summer clinical immersion program as a training tool for empathetic innovation and user needs assessment. Students will participate in clinical rotations to observe the clinical environment, interview patients and their families, and meet with clinicians and medical students to understand medical products from a different perspective. In the third specific aim, clinical immersion participants will act as team consultants for bioDesign and Honors Think Tank courses and provide each team with a unique, multiple perspective consultancy experience to incorporate into their designs. Through these aims, we plan to combine portions of bioDesign and Honors Think Tank classes to expose engineering students to empathetic design thinking and the patient perspective, and non-engineering students to regulatory mandates. An inclusive perspective that results from a combination of multidisciplinary collaboration and clinical immersion helps to build a foundation of knowledge and experience that is required for new innovations in the health care industry. The proposed clinical immersion program will provide student teams an opportunity to refine their medical device designs and concepts based upon new perspectives. In addition to refining their design inputs, students will develop new ideas based upon clinical observation and experiences during the second half of the immersion experience. These ideas will then be developed by future bioDesign classes, refined through clinical immersion, and fed into the ideation engine at the University of Utah. By allowing students to actively observe clinical environments and communicate with patients and clinicians, we hope to provide an educational experience not only from a technological and regulatory perspective, but also a human centered design perspective. This full bodied educational experience will train a new generation of professionals capable of working in a multidisciplinary team identifying and translating real world problems into patient-centered solutions within the regulatory framework of the FDA. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Medical device innovation can be accelerated by better understanding patient needs and immersing designers into the clinical environment. We will utilize resources at the University of Utah to create a clinical immersion experience for both engineers and non-engineers and train teams of designers to develop cost effective and marketable solutions to improve healthcare.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议活动的长期目标是开发一个全面的医疗器械设计培训计划，以临床沉浸作为该培训的基石。临床沉浸将为设计工程师提供多种视角，帮助他们更好地理解临床问题，从而开发新颖、创新的解决方案。像犹他大学这样的环境非常适合教育、开发诊所的需求并将其转化为市场就绪的解决方案。目前，生物工程系提供为期一年的本科医疗器械设计课程（犹他生物设计）。犹他州生物设计与学生设计团队合作，利用临床医生的灵感来开发医疗产品并制作原型。尽管学生从临床医生导师那里受益匪浅，但他们缺乏深入的临床经验和考虑患者进行设计输入的视角。我们在本提案中概述的计划与犹他大学的各种资源合作，包括生物工程生物设计项目、荣誉智囊团和医学院，为工程和设计学生提供富有同情心、以临床为中心的体验。我们的计划目标将通过三个具体目标来实现。在第一个目标中，我们将把生物设计计划的一部分与荣誉智库计划结合起来。目前的生物设计项目侧重于 FDA 监管框架内的医疗器械设计，而智库则侧重于通过设计思维在医疗保健领域进行同理心创新。在这些项目中交叉培养想法将使学生接触到超越学科界限的各种设计视角。在第二个目标中，我们将开发一个夏季临床浸入式计划，作为同理心创新和用户需求评估的培训工具。学生将参加临床轮转，观察临床环境，采访患者及其家属，并与临床医生和医学生见面，从不同的角度了解医疗产品。在第三个具体目标中，临床浸入式参与者将担任生物设计和荣誉智库课程的团队顾问，并为每个团队提供独特的、多视角的咨询体验，并将其融入到他们的设计中。通过这些目标，我们计划将生物设计和荣誉智库课程的部分内容结合起来，让工程专业的学生了解同理心的设计思维和患者的观点，并使非工程专业的学生了解监管要求。多学科合作和临床沉浸相结合产生的包容性视角有助于建立医疗保健行业新创新所需的知识和经验基础。拟议的临床沉浸项目将为学生团队提供一个机会，根据新的视角完善他们的医疗设备设计和概念。除了完善他们的设计输入之外，学生还将在沉浸式体验的后半段中根据临床观察和经验提出新的想法。这些想法将由未来的生物设计课程开发，通过临床沉浸进行完善，并输入犹他大学的构思引擎。通过让学生积极观察临床环境并与患者和临床医生进行交流，我们希望不仅从技术和监管角度，而且从以人为本的设计角度提供教育体验。这种全面的教育经验将培训新一代专业人员，使他们能够在多学科团队中工作，在 FDA 的监管框架内识别现实世界的问题并将其转化为以患者为中心的解决方案。 公共健康相关性：通过更好地了解患者需求并使设计人员融入临床环境，可以加速医疗设备创新。我们将利用犹他大学的资源为工程师和非工程师创造临床浸入式体验，并培训设计师团队开发具有成本效益且适销对路的解决方案，以改善医疗保健。