A Student-Driven Course Brings Medical

Students into the Innovation Arena

Aparna Ramanathan MD, Ankur Gupta, Elizabeth Carstens, Dan WalkUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Course Motivation

Course objectives

Understand problems

Course Objectives

Build relationships

Think critically

Innovate

Understand problems

Curriculum

Curriculum

Evaluate

Ask

Imagine

PlanCreate

Student Driven Leadership

Student-Driven Leadership

First iteration

First Iteration: Tackling literacy

Current course structure

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Project

Requests via

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MBA Students* Beyond IHS: Team ResourcesProduct Initiative

Resources & Mentorship

• Dallas BioCenter

• Health Wildcatters

• UTSW Surgery

• Office of Global Health (OGH)

• Community Action Research Track (CART)

Funding• Health

Wildcatters• UT Horrizon

• OGH• CART

Technical & Clinical

• Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center

• UTA Engineering

• UTSW Surgery

• North Texas Assn. of Charitable Clinics (local)

• OGH Partners (abroad)

Clinical Needs Finding

Clinical Needs Finding

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Our Growth

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MBA Students*

Our Growth

Academic Schedule

MD+ Distinction in Clinical Innovation

Pre-ClinicalClinical

RotationsClinical

Electives

Lecture Component

Clinical Needs-Finding

Multidisciplinary

Innovation Project

Program Sustainability

• University Adoption– Coordination with existing programs and universities– Involving key stakeholders

• Leadership– Governing board

• Our challenge: rapid student leadership turnover– Basic good practices: overlapping terms, documentation, etc.– Creative ownership

(Self) Evaluation

Subjective:-Course Surveys-External Feedback

Objective:-Patients served-Behaviors changed-Specific to (and required by) each project