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ME 599 – Design for Global Health: Medical device usability testing and iterative design
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~120 design projects
~150 student clinical immersions
ME 599 – Design for Global Health: Medical device usability testing and iterative design
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More →Understanding the subtle cultural difficulties in the setting of intended use is close to impossible without the full immersion into that setting. Without knowing the true difficulties and how they are managed, other teams who we have had contact with have difficulty meeting the demands of their end users. Other student design teams struggle to fully understand the user requirements and find it hard to achieve them with a completed prototype based off literature before initiating contact with the end user.
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Students work directly with stakeholders at international field sites and in Ann Arbor to design and prototype solutions to identified health challenges.
GHDI works collaboratively with partners at UM and at international field sites to define and develop medical device designs appropriate for use in low-resource settings
2017 Design for Global Health Students in Flint
The first student interns and academic program students at the Hamilton Flint partner hospital.
GHDI is now accepting applications for the 2020 Global Health Design Internship. The application deadline is March 2, 2020. For more information and to apply, visit this link.
This summer, GHDI will have four academic program participants and nine interns working on global health design projects. Academic program participants will be completing an 8-week clinical immersion experience in either Accra, Ghana or Kumasi, Ghana. Interns will be completing 10-12 week internships in Ann Arbor, Michigan and either Kumasi, Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Flint, Michigan, or Kampala, Uganda. Student project themes include obstetrics and gynecology, family planning, emergency medicine/trauma, physical therapy, and patient communication and information sharing systems.