Medventions: Psychiatry Project – Psychiatry Innovation

Launched in Summer 2023, Medventions Atlantic is a partnership between the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub and Sunnybrook Research Institute with the goal to drive health innovation and nurture Canadian talent in the healthcare technology sector. The cornerstone of the program is a four month physician-led, hospital-based fellowship training that equips aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs with a proven process to identify important healthcare needs and invent novel technologies to address them.

Selected candidates will work together as a group, under the supervision of clinical and research mentors. The team will get the opportunity to uncover innovation and translational research opportunities in the field of psychiatry.

The configuration of the Medventions Atlantic fellowship program allows fellows to get involved in clinical immersion, identification and verification of clinical problems, ideation, and the making of an early proof of concept or a prototype for a new medical device.

The four-month fellowship is divided into three main phases with the following structure:

Phase 1: Clinical needs identification, verification, and assessment

Phase 2: Ideation and brainstorming

Phase 3: Concept development, product design and prototyping

Faculty Supervisor:

Clifton Johnston

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Partner:

Nova Scotia Health

Discipline:

Life Sciences

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