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*Medical Bridge
*Entrepreneurship Educational Tract
*Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum at UVA School of Medicine
== Dream Team Program ==
**Capstone Venture-Lab course implementation in progress
*Encourage students to take their ideas and create products and companies around it. This may require restructuring the curriculum, so that the last capstone class, in which you create a product idea, is taken before a student's final year
== Human-Centered Design and Innovation Curriculum at UVA School of Medicine<br/> ==
'''Description''': Develop and implement an unprecedented curriculum track at the School of Medicine focused on user-centered design and problem solving.
The following is a detailed proposal submitted to the UVA School of Medicine Curriculum Committee based on student feedback and survey:
<div>The practice of medicine is undergoing radical transformation in the United States. This shift is fueled by myriad inter-connected factors including highly disruptive advances in fields like genomics and a drive for more individualized, patient-centered care, as well as population-level needs for advances in areas such as preventive services to address sequelae of chronic disease. Innovative approaches to medical training are needed to prepare young physicians for these changes and position them to play leadership roles in their personal clinical teams and at a system level. Traditional 4-year medical training programs now include increasing emphasis on multi-disciplinary teams. However, they do not naturally cultivate opportunities for students to focus on unsolved problems and get hands-on experience creating new products or services to address those problems, skills that are essential to becoming successful and effective innovators. With its history of cultural transformation in inter-disciplinary translational research the University of Virginia (UVA) is well positioned for a leadership role in preparing future medical doctors for the new era of medical practice.</div><div><br/></div><div>We are proposing a ‘Medical Innovation & Human-Centered Design’ track to provide UVA medical students working knowledge of innovation and human centered design approaches – popularly referred to as design thinking. This track will complement the NexGen curriculum by offering three discrete phases of student training on this topic. The first phase will take place in the first two years prior clerkship, during which students will participate in workshops and seminars to build requisite knowledge in design and innovation. Because of busy schedules and the demands of clerkships, the second phase will consist primarily of student’s journaling their observations during their time in clinic. This will provide data that will be the seeds for the third and final phase, during their 4th year. This component will include an elective and Capstone project (similar to a thesis). For the purpose of developing this program, we request one year of support to pilot a certificate program that will feature 6 workshops/seminars for first year medical students entering the fall of 2016 and to build on theexisting 4th year s-elective taught by David Chen. The data gathered through the courses as well as through student and faculty focus groups, interviews, and surveys during the 2015-2016 year will optimize a 4-year track to be offered Fall of 2016.</div><div><br/></div><div>'''Goals:'''</div>
*Introduce the human-centered design methodology to medical students
*Utilize course materials and results from workshops to educate the medical school at-large about human-centered design principles
*Encourage application of skillsets in practial healthcare scenarios
*Promote the use of human-centered design for medical education on a national scale
= 2014 UIF Leadership Circle =
