Entrepreneurial Courselet for Phd Students in Medicine
Christine Q. Kurihara,
Elizabeth D. Mellins,
William R. Overall, and
Paul G. Yock, Stanford University
Stanford's Introduction to Medicine course is offered to PhD students in the
medical sciences to introduce approaches used by physicians to understand
human disease. The course uses diabetes mellitus as an example disease
and provides lectures, discussions, computer demonstrations, and teaching
materials. Student teams solve problems in multi-system diseases, and the
resulting projects can lead to marketable innovations. In order to aid teams
that develop potentially marketable technologies, the Intro to Medicine
faculty invited the Program in Biodesign to create a CD based, directed minicourse
on entrepreneurial issues in medical device development. Biodesign's
own Innovation course features, in part, a series of speakers discussing
entrepreneurial aspects of device invention. A courselet was developed
using selected, indexed video content from the Biodesign course paired
with supporting documents such as worksheets and examples and set into a
content structure around issues in Entrepreneurship. This paper will discuss the
development of the courselet.
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