“This course made me pick up my head and think about things differently. It gave me energy and excitement about being in the healthcare field.”
Jacob Wagner, UNE Medical Student

Notes and sketches from an Innovation Elective student project.

User discovery interviews from the Fall 2020 Innovation Elective.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Currently, the Innovation Elective is only available to medical students at Tufts University School of Medicine or medical schools affiliated with Maine Medical Center. The course is specifically designed for medical students in their 4th year.
While we strongly encourage students to have a clinical problem in mind that they wish to solve throughout the 4-week curriculum, it is not required. Students taking the course without a project will be assigned to another project of the MaineHealth Innovation Center.
Please follow the registration process of your medical school. For more information, please email the innovation_center@mainehealth.org.
PAST PROJECTS
Rachel Fahey – Medical Student, UNE
Project: Time is Brain: An Approach to Speeding Up Acute Stroke Care
Jacob Wagner – Medical Student, UNE
Project: Pardon the Interruption: Innovating Protocols in Radiology