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: 8471700
• 负责人: JAMES AGUTTER
• 金额: $ 3.95万
• 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/8471700
• 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.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议活动的长期目标是制定一项全面的医疗设备设计培训计划，并以临床浸入为基石，作为该培训的基石。临床沉浸式将为设计工程师提供各种观点，并更好地准备他们了解临床问题，以开发新颖的创新解决方案。像犹他大学这样的环境非常适合教育，开发和转化诊所的需求为市场就绪的解决方案。目前，生物工程系提供了为期一年的本科医疗设备设计计划（犹他州生物设计计划）。犹他州生物设计合作伙伴学生设计团队与临床医生启发的想法开发和原型医学产品。尽管学生从临床医师的导师中受益匪浅，但他们缺乏深入的临床经验，并且是考虑患者进行设计输入的观点。我们在该提案中概述的计划合作于犹他大学的各种资源，包括生物工程生物建筑计划，荣誉智囊团和医学院，以为工程和设计学生开发同情心，以临床为中心的经验。我们的计划目标将通过三个特定目标来实现。在第一个目标中，我们将将生物设计计划的一部分与荣誉智囊团计划相结合。当前的生物设计计划着重于FDA的监管框架内的医疗设备设计，智囊团通过设计思维的重点关注医疗保健中的同理心创新。在这些计划中跨越培养思想将使学生了解各种设计的设计观点，这些观点扩展了过去的纪律界限。在第二个目标中，我们将制定夏季临床沉浸式计划，作为一种促进创新和用户需求评估的培训工具。学生将参加临床轮换，以观察临床环境，采访患者及其家人，并与临床医生和医学生会见面，从不同的角度了解医疗产品。在第三个特定目标中，临床沉浸式参与者将担任生物设计和尊重智囊团课程的团队顾问，并为每个团队提供独特的，多个观点的咨询经验，以融入他们的设计。通过这些目标，我们计划将一部分生物设计和尊敬的智囊团结合起来，以使工程学学生接触善解人意的设计思维和患者的观点，以及非工程学的学生来监管任务。由多学科合作和临床沉浸式结合的包容性观点有助于建立知识和经验的基础，这是医疗保健行业新创新所需的。拟议的临床沉浸式计划将为学生团队提供基于新观点的医疗设备设计和概念的机会。除了完善他们的设计投入外，学生还将根据下半年的临床观察和经验发展新想法。然后，这些想法将由未来的生物设计课程开发，通过临床沉浸，并融入了犹他大学的构思引擎。通过允许学生积极观察临床环境并与患者和临床医生进行沟通，我们希望不仅从技术和监管的角度提供教育经验，而且还可以提供以人为中心的设计角度来提供教育经验。这种完整的身体教育经验将培训能够在多学科团队中工作的新一代专业人士，将现实世界中的问题识别为以患者为中心的解决方案，以在FDA的监管框架内。