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This course teaches the art and skill of identifying medical device opportunities by experiencing real world scenarios in an immersive clinical environment. Students rotate through multiple clinical disciplines and become part of the team of senior clinicians, surgeons, residents, fellows, nurses and medical technologists. They learn to identify unmet medical device needs through direct observations in a variety of clinical settings including the hospital ward and operating room, interviews (with patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administration), literature survey, and more. Concurrently, they learn the process of filtering all observations to a few valid medical device opportunities by assessing the market size, intellectual property landscape, regulatory framework, and competitor dynamics in addition to the clinical impact that such a device could have. The ability to identify a relevant medical device need is an important first step in the medical device innovation cycle; this course aims to provide students with practical hands- on training in that process.