Lab Course MedInnovate Graduate Programme

by Dr. Christoph Hennersperger, Prof. Nassir Navab
Tutors: Julia Rackerseder, Beatrice Lentes, Marina Moskvina

Type: Master Practical Course Module IN2106, Module IN2257, Module IN8021
Course Title: MedInnovate Graduate Programme - Link to TUMOnline

Programs lab course: Biomedical Computing (Master), Informatics (Master)
Programs elective course: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, School of Management, Industrial Design
SWS: 6
ECTS: 10 Credits

Meetings: See schedule below
The course will be conducted in English.

Important News

• Application deadline extended until 07-MAR-2018
• Application is still open for students from Computer Science, Robotics and Engineering!
• Application deadline is *28-FEB-2018*
• Extended application deadline for computer scientist and engineers is *17-FEB-2018*
• Application deadline for TUM matching system (Informatics) is 14-FEB-2018
• Preliminary Meeting is on 29-JAN-2018, 1230-1300 in room MI 03.13.010

How to be part of it

Please apply for this lab course by mail in advance. We will select appropriate candidates based on their background, interests, and motivation. The notification of acceptance to the course will be distributed around 15-MAR-2018.
Application deadline is 28-FEB-2018! Students from the informatics faculty have to register through the common IN.TUM-Matching-System (Application deadline 17-FEB-2018).
For application send the following documents to application@medinnovate.eu

• CV
• up to date score sheet
• motivation letter (max 1.5 pages), answering the following questions
  • Which learnings from your previous team and project experiences would you contribute and transfer to the program?
  • You should have basic knowledge and understanding of medical technology. Describe it shortly. If you have no experience in this field, which knowledge and expertise can you bring to the team to be successful?
  • What is your motivation to take part in the MedInnovate program? What is the main goal you want to reach at the end of this semester?

What is MedInnovate?

Do you want to find out about medical innovation? Do you want to develop a concept that can solve a clinical need? Do you want to find a good idea for a start-up company?

Then you should join MedInnovate, a hands-on seminar where you learn how to successfully identify unmet clinical needs within the clinical routine and work towards possible and realistic solutions to solve those needs. You get to know tools helping you to be a successful innovator in medical technology. This includes all steps from needs finding and selection to defining appropriate solution concepts, including the development of first prototypes. During the course, necessary steps for successful idea and concept creation are presented and fully realized in interdisciplinary project teams. During the project phase, each team is supported by coaches from academia, industry and medicine, in order to allow for direct and continuous exchange.

Course Features

• Work in interdisciplinary teams.
• Spend a minimum of three full days in full clinical immersion, identifying unmet needs.
• Get training by UnternehmerTUM tutors about coordinated brain storming, needs identification, needs selection and concept generation.
• Build your first prototype, with support from UnternehmerTUM MakerSpace.

For more details about the course and our project MedInnovate please visit the project webpage: http://campar.in.tum.de/Chair/ProjectBioInnovation

Who should participate?

We accept and encourage students of all disciplines to join for this lab course. Focusing on medical technology and applications to the clinical routine, we anticipate a broad field of studies as main audience, including:

• Computer scientists
• Engineers of any kind
• Biologists, chemists, physicists
• Business administration and economics students
• Industrial Designers

Students should have basic knowledge and understanding of medical technology, with an interest in innovation within the field. Due to the interdisciplinarity of project teams, skills within the respective area of specialty will be required throughout the progress of the lab course. We encourage students to work pro-actively with exchange within, but also across the borders of the teams.

Passing requirements

• Active participation and presence in all workshops and meetings
• Submission of all assignments in time
• Presentation of intermediate and final concept work.

Collaborating Medical Departments

• Urologische Klinik und Poliklinik der Technischen Universität München - Klinikum Rechts der Isar
• Vascular Surgery - Helios Kliniken München-West
• Institut für Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie - Klinikum Rechts der Isar
• Institut für diagnostische und interventionelle Radiologie

Course Phases

Period	Working Phase
11-APR-2018 -- 18-APR-2018	MedInnovate tools at hand (workshops)
11-JUN-2018 -- 11-JUL-2018	Prototyping and validation
12-JUL-2018	MedInnovate Summer Symposium
23-APR-2018 -- 23-MAY-2018	Clinical immersion - observation in practice and daily routine
24-MAY-2018 -- 10-JUN-2018	Needs evaluation and ideation

Schedule (Preliminary)

Date	Topic	Conducted by	Location	Materials
29-JAN-2018 // 1230 - 1300	Preliminary meeting ("Vorbesprechung")	Course Tutors	MI 03.13.010	Slides
15-FEB-2018 // 2359	Application Deadline for Computer Science students (Matching system)
28-FEB-2018 // 2359	Application Deadline
11-APR-2018 // 0900 - 1700	Workshop: This is MedInnovate, Design Thinking, Needs finding, Prototyping	MedInnovate team	N5325
17-APR-2018 // 0900 - 1700	Workshop: Teams, Specialty Intro	MedInnovate team	TranslaTUM
18-APR-2018 // 0900 - 1700	Workshop: Needs evaluation & Storytelling	MedInnovate team	TranslaTUM
19-APR-2018 -- 23-APR-2018	Clinical introductions - one initial meeting with clinical advisors during that period	MedInnovate team & Student teams & Clinical advisors
02-MAY-2018 // 1400 - 1700	Biweekly update	Student teams	TranslaTUM, Forum left side
09-MAY-2018 // 0900 - 1800	Workshop Presentations, Design Thinking Tools, Teamwork	MedInnovate team & Student teams	TranslaTUM, Forum left side
23-MAY-2018 // 1400 - 1730	Presentation front-runner needs	Student teams	TranslaTUM, Forum left side
06-JUN-2018 // 1400 - 1700	Biweekly update	Student teams	UnternehmerTUM, room Anton
13-JUN-2018 // 1400 - 1730	Presentation front-runner concepts	Student teams	TranslaTUM, Forum left side
27-JUN-2018 // 1230 - 1600	Biweekly update	Student teams	KMLE offices
04-JUL-2018 // 1400 - 1730	Presentation final concept and prototype // Pitch-perfect individual sessions	MedInnovate team & Student teams	TranslaTUM, Forum left side
12-JUL-2018 // 1600 - 2400	MedInnovate Summer Symposium	MedInnovate team & Student teams		TranslaTUM, Forum right side
03-AUG-2018 // 2359	Final deliverables due	Student teams
TBA	What's next? Reflection and Future	MedInnovate team & Student teams

Literature and Resources

Innovation projects

• Stanford BioDesign program