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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

cmery@austin

Director

Co-Director

Coordinator(s)

James Tunnell
jtunnell@mail.utexas.edu 

Carlos Mery

Daniel Stromberg, MD dstromberg@austin.utexas.edu

Liz McCullum

Elena Adams (Dell)

elizabeth

maria.

mccullum@austin

adams@austin.utexas.edu

Jenny Kondo (BME)
jenny.kondo@austin.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 CID (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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BSBME/MSE students may choose to apply to and participate in the Clinical Innovation and Design program as a component of the Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) in Biomedical Engineering degree. 

Required Coursework Progression

       Fall: BME 682M 385J Biodesign: Needs Identification (6 3 credit hours)       

        Spring: BME 683M 385J Biodesign: Entrepreneurship (6 3 credit hours)

Month

Activity

August

After taking USMLE Step 1, co mingle 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

Click here to view the slides from the March 1, 2021 virtual information session. 

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There are no fees associated with this program. Students pay standard graduate engineering tuition costs for the required 12 9 credit hours of coursework.

Application Timeline

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Application Information

Application form will be provided to all BSBME/MSE students who have been admitted through the Step 1 application process. CID applicants will be invited to interview with the co-directors. 

Applications typically open September 1 and close January 31. Decisions are typically communicated by March.

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