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Summer Clinical Immersion

University of Utah

The summer program brings together creative product design students and bio-engineering students in a 10 week intensive course.

Mission

Structure

10 weeks

Immersed in clinical surgical environment

Teams of 2

Student stipends

Small prototype budget

Method

Specific Steps

Week 1 - IntroductionWeek 2 - Human Centered Design / ObservationWeek 3 - Problem IdentificationWeek 4 - Problem down selectionWeek 5 - Problem statementWeek 6 - IdeationWeek 7 - Ideation down selection / constraint identificationWeek 8 - Idea refinement / prototypingWeek 9 - Concept validationWeek 10 - Final Report

Guide

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Guide

1. It is about humans

Patchen Diversity

Corona Tools

2. Understand the context

3. Build multiple design concepts

4. Involve all users

5. Evaluate at all stages

6. Consider the overall experience

Nathan Shredoff

7. It takes a team

U of U / Health Care Innovation Lab

Healthcare is a complex humanistic experience, not something that is simply delivered.