Medical technology for real health care needs
A new training programme will pave the way for more medical innovations. The idea is to make it easier to find technical solutions to problems in the day-to-day work carried out by health care clinics. The programme is being run by the Centre for Technology in Medicine and Health.
“Today there are many new medical solutions available but it is a complicated process reaching out to the clinics that can make use of it in the best way. What we want to do is to create a bridge between the clinics and external skills in technology, medicine and management, says Bertil Guve at the Centre for Technology in Medicine and Health, which is being run by KTH, KI and Stockholm County Council.
The core of the educational programme Clinical Innovation Fellowship is a needs analysis of the problems and opportunities within the day-to-day work carried out at the clinic. Two teams with three people in each team will follow the day-to-day activities at the clinics.
“The participants will be carriers of a story as to what really goes on at the clinics. Thanks to the programme they will then be able to bring interesting opportunities and problems back to the management of the County Council, to industry and to researchers at KI and KTH,” says Bertil Guve.
During the first year the programme will be carried out in cooperation with two clinics at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge: the Emergency Clinic and the Gastro Centre Surgery.
The programme begins with a training period which lasts two months where the participants are provided with knowledge of, among other things, innovation and innovation management as well as organisational theory. They will also be provided with insight into today’s medical industry. In addition, they will receive in-depth medical and organisational knowledge of operations at the clinic they will be working.
The application period for the programme extends to the end of February when the two teams will be chosen through personal interviews.
An important quality among the participants will be strong motivation and the desire to test their own creative ability to think, both within medical technology and healthcare organisation. At the same time as they most likely have an engineering degree or medical degree as well as a few years’ work experience, Bertil Guve adds.
Clinical Innovation Fellowship is financed by KI, KTH and Stockholm County Council as well as Familjen Erling-Perssons Stiftelse (The Erling-Perssons Family Foundation).
Christer Gummeson