Master of Health Care Innovation
Lab: Addressing Challenges
Course Description
In this 4.5-week lab, team work is prioritized, and students use the skills they have learned throughout the Master of Health Care Innovation so far—as well as their professional expertise—to investigate and specify a difficult challenge in health care. In small groups, students experience working together to research and define a problem. They will also validate and prioritize an array of problems in their assigned challenge area, and present their work to a panel of health care experts.
They will come away from this lab with an understanding of human centered design thinking and how to:
- Conduct background research with end users.
- Analyze findings.
- Subject a problem to constructive feedback from classmates and observers.
Learning Objectives
- Conduct interviews with end users in health care contexts.
- Analyze user experiences and attitudes related to access to high-quality health care.
- Synthesize knowledge from multiple sources to define a problem in a way that facilitates impactful and innovative solutions.
- Present a clearly defined problem statement to an audience of peers and health care experts.
