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Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Medicine Series 📖

Are you interested in healthcare innovation, entrepreneurship, medical devices, startups, or learning how clinical ideas become real-world solutions? This fall, PennHealthX is offering Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Medicine, a new seminar series designed to introduce medical students to the process of identifying clinical problems, developing innovative solutions, and translating those ideas into practice. Attending this seminar series counts towards completion of your HMET certificate!

Across 12 weekly sessions, you’ll learn about:

• Identifying and validating unmet clinical needs
• Understanding patients, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders
• Ideation, prototyping, and minimum viable products
• Intellectual property and patenting
• Navigating the FDA and regulatory pathway
• Clinical validation and translational research
• Funding, commercialization, and pitching to investors
• Lessons and experiences from physician entrepreneurs

Sessions are highly interactive and case-based, with students working in teams throughout the series to develop a healthcare innovation and ultimately pitch their idea to win prizes! Everyone can participate! No prior experience in entrepreneurship, business, or engineering is required. Dinner or snacks provided at every session. Whether you already have an idea for a medical innovation or are simply curious about entrepreneurship, this is an opportunity to learn from experts, explore the entrepreneurial process, and get hands-on experience developing a healthcare innovation.