Promoting innovation: Enhancing transdisciplinary opportunities for medical and engineering students

Brazile, Tiffany; Shoop, Glenda Hostetter; McDonough, Christine M.; Citters, Douglas W. Van

doi:10.1080/0142159x.2018.1426841

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“…Several studies were conducted to explore the factors that can enhance such rate of technological innovation by minimalising the barriers of UIRC. Nevertheless, mostly focused on university-industry orientation-related factors, for instance, conducting workshops and seminars, hiring educated, trained and skilled personnel (Brazile et al 2018;Dooley and Gubbins 2019;Chen, Lu, and Wang 2020) which usually act as a symptomatic way out of the problem (Iqbal 2018).…”

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Blended system thinking approach to strengthen the education and training in university-industry research collaboration

Iqbal

Khan

Abdullah

et al. 2021

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

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University-industry research collaboration (UIRC) is a major source for research and innovations and economic growth. Despite the extensive evidence on the importance of such collaboration in developed and developing countries, the literature related to strengthen such collaboration along with its innovation performance is still scarce. Scholars believed that the impact of education and training on researchers haa a vigorous influence on research and innovations. Moreover, to enhance the competencies of education and training on researchers, it is mandatory to refurbish education and skills system in conjunction with technological infrastructure system along with their reinforcing factors i.e. knowledge sharing and research and development cooperation, respectively. In this paper, we evaluate the influence of education and skills and technological infrastructure system along with their corresponding reinforcing factors in the blended system thinking method to strengthen education and training. Evidence from UIRC in Malaysia provides empirical corroboration that the role of education and skills system and technological infrastructure system along with their reinforcing factors have a positive influence on education and training. Thus, the findings of this research suggest that intensifying the quality of education and skills system and technological infrastructure system with the reinforcing effect can enhance the effectiveness of education and training.

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Blended system thinking approach to strengthen the education and training in university-industry research collaboration

Iqbal

Khan

Abdullah

et al. 2021

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

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“…5,6 Longitudinal approaches have been proposed that encourage medical students to learn the process of innovation by incorporating innovative thinking into daily practice and building collaborative relationships with engineering peers. 1,6 Although graduating medical students are expected to possess such systems-level problem-solving skills, little consistency exists across medical school curricula for teaching the critical thinking and creativity needed for the medical device innovation process. 1,2,5,7 A 2016 survey of 158 allopathic medical schools found that only 13 offered such programs, 7 and public descriptions were available for only 2 of them.…”

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“…1,6 Although graduating medical students are expected to possess such systems-level problem-solving skills, little consistency exists across medical school curricula for teaching the critical thinking and creativity needed for the medical device innovation process. 1,2,5,7 A 2016 survey of 158 allopathic medical schools found that only 13 offered such programs, 7 and public descriptions were available for only 2 of them.…”

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“…The clinician-innovator is a logical concept based on the intersection of patient care, the firsthand familiarity with existing devices and resulting unmet needs in their specialty, and the strong emphasis on research and educational ventures that defines academic medicine. 1,2 The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the value of training future physicians in medical device innovation. 3 The limited availability of life-sustaining and protective equipment drove many clinicians to create temporary solutions, many of which were rapidly disseminated before any sort of iterative product testing or pragmatic validation.…”

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Learning the Language of Medical Device Innovation: A Longitudinal Interdisciplinary Elective for Medical Students

Maloney¹,

Hakimi²,

Hays³

et al. 2022

Academic Medicine

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ProblemPhysicians are playing a growing role as clinician-innovators. Academic physicians are well positioned to contribute to the medical device innovation process, yet few medical school curricula provide students opportunities to learn the conceptual framework for clinical needs finding, needs screening, concept generation and iterative prototyping, and intellectual property management. This framework supports innovation and encourages the development of valuable interdisciplinary communication skills and collaborative learning strategies. ApproachOur university offers a novel 3-yearlong medical student Longitudinal Interdisciplinary Elective in Biodesign (MSLIEB) that teaches medical device innovation in 4 stages: (1) seminars and small-group work, (2) shared clinical experiences for needs finding, (3) concept generation and product development by serving as consultants for biomedical engineering capstone projects, and (4) reflection and mentorship. The MSLIEB objectives are to: create a longitudinal interdisciplinary peer mentorship relationship between undergraduate biomedical engineering students and medical students, and encourage codevelopment of professional identities in relation to medical device innovation.

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“…Integration of concepts such as technical writing course, along with engineering materials and multidisciplinary methods, was emphasized for the value that these integrations create (Paretti et al, 2019;Brazile et al, 2018). Researchers highlighted not only on the development of the student teamwork but also at the teaching level through team teaching approach (Maldoni and Lear, 2016).…”

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Facilitation of team communication skill among engineers: an empirical study

Mehta

Jha

2020

HESWBL

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PurposeThe purpose of the study is to understand the team communication skill among students with engineering background.Design/methodology/approachLabour market offers more employment to those who have better social skills than those who fair less on these skills. It is pertinent to integrate these skills among engineers. In the study, a Qual-quant-Qual platform was created to develop social skill andragogy for engineers from India. Involving 132 engineers, the authors gathered qualitative and quantitative data to understand their perspective on communication and the emergent factors of team communication skill.FindingsThe qualitative study supports the view that despite theoretical awareness, the actions may differ. The factor analysis of the data revealed five important factors of interpersonal communication. The study offers six utilities in support of andragogy.Originality/valueThe study offers a platform to engineers to internalize and reflect differences in order for the real learning to take place, and it also offers space to faculty members to simulate and offer relevant interventions.

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Promoting innovation: Enhancing transdisciplinary opportunities for medical and engineering students

Cited by 21 publications

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Blended system thinking approach to strengthen the education and training in university-industry research collaboration

Blended system thinking approach to strengthen the education and training in university-industry research collaboration

Learning the Language of Medical Device Innovation: A Longitudinal Interdisciplinary Elective for Medical Students

Facilitation of team communication skill among engineers: an empirical study

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