Innovation Elective

OVERVIEW

The MaineHealth Innovation Center has launched a 4th year medical student elective with Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM), its principal academic partner. The 4-week course curriculum is steeped in innovation science and theory, which learners then apply on the front lines of care delivery and administration by identifying a course-long healthcare problem to solve.

Throughout the course, learners will clarify their problems, engage in customer discovery, search for existing or novel models, develop a pathway, process or prototype, define stakeholders, run short experiments, and map a process for future deployment of their innovative solution. This course will educate learners on the important and difficult job of asking the right questions throughout the innovation process, which is often more important than producing the right answer. The final projects will have a higher likelihood of success due to the course demands of rigorous attention to the variables that drive the effective implementation of new ideas.