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Part-time hybrid format

220 hours of training and mentoring to develop a viable solution and a business model

The program offers 75 hours of live online training sessions twice a week focused on the health industry and healthcare system, product development, and market access, combined with entrepreneur small talks.
In addition to the two weeks of clinical immersion, you will have three days of face-to-face meetings to work on the solution to your chosen unmet need and onsite meetings during graduation week.
See below the different modules and the contents of the academic program.

Modules

Program kick-off

Online

  • Kick-off week to introduce the program, meet the teams and learn about the clinical immersion

Onsite

  • Optional visits to the appointed hospital that will host each team

3 weeks

Identify needs

Onsite

  • Clinical immersion at the hospital to shadow the clinical activities to identify unmet clinical needs
  • Final session to get prepared for the next phase

2 weeks

Needs filtering

Online

  • Filtering process of the needs with potential
  • Start generation of concept solution
  • Lectures
  • Mentoring and Coaching sessions
  • Teamwork sessions

13 weeks

Prototyping and business model

Onsite

  • 3 days onsite to work on the solution

Online

  • Work on the solution development for the selected need
  • Work on the implementation model (design of the business model)
  • Lectures
  • Mentoring and Coaching sessions
  • Teamwork sessions

15 weeks

Graduation week

3 days onsite to:

  • Prepare the pitch
  • Final lectures
  • Public presentation of the project to the ecosystem

1 week

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Academic program

1. Introduction to the life sciences industry

  • The future of the life sciences: trends and patterns
  • Medtech industry
  • Digital health industry

2. Understanding the healthcare systems

  • Healthcare systems & economics
  • Private healthcare insurances
  • Health & disease in the developing world

3. Product development

  • Medical device development
  • Globalization: A golden era for innovation
  • Artificial intelligence in health
  • Robotics and sensors
  • Legal & IP basics

4. Market access

  • Medical products regulatory
  • Business models in the healthcare industry
  • The healthcare industry – Value chains
  • Customer discovery
  • Reimbursement basics
  • Health technology assessment
  • Clinical trials in medical devices

5. Entrepreneurs Small Talks

  • Medtech
  • Digital
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