A Clinical Immersion Program to Train Biomedical Engineers to Identify Indiana's Urban Health Needs

临床浸入式计划，培训生物医学工程师以确定印第安纳州的城市健康需​​求

• 批准号: 10613994
• 负责人: Steven J. Higbee
• 金额: $ 4.32万
• 依托单位: INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10613994
• 关键词: Academia; Achievement; Address; Affect; Area; Articulation; Awareness; Biomedical Engineering; Chronic Disease; Cities; Clinic; Clinical; Collaborations; Communication; Complex; Decision Making; Development; Documentation; Education; Educational Curriculum; Engineering; Environment; Faculty; Health; Health Professional; Health Sciences; Healthcare; Human Resources; Immersion; Indiana; Industry; Infant Mortality; Instruction; Knowledge; Legal patent; Literature; Medical; Medical Device; Medical Technology; Medicine; Mentors; Mind; Mission; Modeling; Nurses; Obesity; Organism; Patients; Persons; Physicians; Plague; Population; Positioning Attribute; Poverty; Research; Research Personnel; Residencies; Resources; Rotation; Schools; Self Efficacy; Smoking; Societies; Socioeconomic Factors; Students; Technology; Training; Translating; Translations; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Urban Health; clinically relevant; design; engineering design; ethnic diversity; experience; falls; health care delivery; health care disparity; improved; innovation; medical schools; multidisciplinary; novel; people of color; programs; racial diversity; real world application; skills; social; social consciousness; socioeconomic disparity; socioeconomics; student participation; undergraduate student; urban setting

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The development of new medical devices and technologies requires a biomedical engineering (BME) workforce that is capable of identifying unmet clinical needs and working in teams to develop design solutions. BME curricula generally attempt to prepare students for such challenges through hands-on projects and team- based capstone courses, but such experiences often fall short at preparing students for needs identification and translation of design solutions. Clinical immersion provides a complementary experience to traditional curricular features, as students in such opportunities observe real-world application of medical devices and communicate with clinical personnel. Clinics in urban environments present a unique set of issues, including the challenge of delivering health care to populations that are socially and economically diverse. Our proposed INdiana Summer Clinical Residency in Innovation for Biomedical Engineers or (IN)SCRIBE Program will engage undergraduate BME students in a seven-week summer clinical immersion and design experience that challenges student teams to integrate socioeconomic considerations into clinically-relevant design. Both health care professionals and biomedical engineers will serve as faculty for the program. Indiana ranks 41st of the 50 states in overall resident health quality; chronic disease, obesity, smoking, and infant mortality rates plague our state. Socioeconomic disparities related to these health issues are of particular concern in cities like Indianapolis, as 39% of its population are people of color and 19% of its residents live in poverty. However, with the ample resources for medical innovation present in Indianapolis, our clinicians, researchers, and industry professionals can better engineer solutions that take socioeconomic disparities into account. Our proposed (IN)SCRIBE Program will train biomedical engineers to be adept at translating urban, healthcare-related technologies. The long-term objective of the proposed project is to develop a model program for urban universities to train biomedical engineers who will contribute to solutions to society's most challenging health care problems. Specific Aim 1 is to implement the (IN)SCRIBE Program at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), in collaboration with the IU School of Medicine. We will immerse undergraduate BME students in diverse clinical settings, develop student skills and self-efficacy in needs identification and clinically-relevant design, and create student awareness of socioeconomic disparities in healthcare. Specific Aim 2 is to determine how the (IN)SCRIBE Program affects undergraduate BME students. We will identify how student teams articulate consideration of socioeconomic factors in design solutions and document how student teams pursue design to meet urban health needs beyond the Program. Successful achievement of the long-term objective and specific aims will result in improved training for biomedical engineers and better health for all residents in both urban and non-urban areas.

项目摘要/摘要 新的医疗设备和技术的开发需要生物医学工程（BME） 能够确定未满足的临床需求并在团队中工作以开发设计解决方案的劳动力。 BME课程通常试图通过动手项目和团队来为学生做好此类挑战的准备 基于基于的顶峰课程，但是这种经验通常在为学生准备需求身份方面做好准备 和设计解决方案的翻译。临床沉浸式为传统提供了完整的体验 课程功能，因为在这种机会中的学生观察到医疗设备的现实应用和 与临床人员沟通。城市环境中的诊所提出了一系列独特的问题，包括 在社会和经济上多样化的人群中提供医疗保健的挑战。我们提出的 印第安纳州的夏季临床居住在生物医学工程师或（IN）Scribe计划的创新中将 让本科BME学生参与为期七个星期的夏季临床沉浸和设计经验 挑战学生团队将社会经济的注意事项纳入临床上与临床相关的设计。两者都健康 护理专业人员和生物医学工程师将作为该计划的教师。 印第安纳州在整体居民健康质量中排名50个州的第41位；慢性疾病，肥胖，吸烟和 婴儿死亡率困扰着我们的州。与这些健康问题有关的社会经济差异特别是 印第安纳波利斯等城市的关注，因为其39％的人口是有色人种，其中19％的居民居住在 贫困。但是，随着印第安纳波利斯的大量医疗创新资源，我们的临床医生， 研究人员和行业专业人士可以更好地工程解决方案，以将社会经济分布纳入 帐户。我们提议的（在）抄写员计划将培训生物医学工程师，以善于翻译城市， 与医疗保健相关的技术。 拟议项目的长期目标是为城市大学制定模型计划 生物医学工程师将为社会最挑战的医疗保健问题做出贡献。 特定目标1是在印第安纳大学 - 普渡大学（印第安纳州）实施（在）抄写员计划 （IUPUI）与IU医学院合作。我们将沉浸在本科生中 潜水员的临床环境，在需求识别和临床上发展学生技能和自我效能感 设计，并创造学生对医疗保健社会经济差异的认识。具体目标2是 确定（IN）抄写员计划如何影响本科BME学生。我们将确定学生如何 团队在设计解决方案中表达对社会经济因素的考虑，并记录学生团队的方式 追求设计以满足该计划以外的城市健康需​​求。 成功实现长期目标和具体目标将改善培训 为城市和非城市地区的所有居民提供生物医学工程师和更好的健康。