Revolutionizing Medical School with a First of Its Kind College of Medicine
CHALLENGE
An academic community health system and a nationally-ranked university sought to undertake a bold new initiative to create the world’s first engineering-based college of medicine. With an emphasis on human factors, design thinking, medical technologies, and entrepreneurship, the college aspired to educate a new generation of physicians trained to develop transformative health care solutions at the intersection of engineering, science, and medicine.
20+ stakeholder interviews
Baseline strategy validation
Student consumer experiential analysis
Faculty consumer experiential analysis
Asset inventory
Co-creation sessions to explore tomorrow’s undergraduate medical education experience and environments
APPROACH
Creating something that has never been created before requires leaning in to the unknown. Leveraging design thinking and human centered approaches, the team engaged in a deep exploration of the future of this college of medicine with its program leadership and other relevant stakeholders. Co-creation sessions were focused on understanding how to translate this new curricular approach that would undoubtedly attract a new kind of study and faculty into building solutions that will facilitate academic success, mission fulfillment and transformative human engagement.
RESULTS
In their own words, the college of medicine curriculum “immerses students early in clinical, case-driven, problem-based active learning intended to instill passion and creativity for discovering innovative solutions to the world’s most difficult healthcare challenges.”
The new college of medicine has opened its doors. In 2022 it will graduate its first class of physician innovators who will take on the challenges facing healthcare leveraging data, technology and empathy to make a difference.
160
medical students
600+
affiliated clinical and academic faculty members