The first phase, known as the Innovator's Foundation, incorporates a "mini-graduate school", enabling the Fellows to become fully aware of the issues related to health technology and processes. The team will engage in formal instruction of fundamental core topics including biological, medical, engineering and business concepts. Additionally, foundational learning will occur through academic and industry networking, research seminars, field trips, and overall team organization. The backbone of this phase will be the basic instruction of the innovation process. It will be introduced, as well as the tools required, for the ultimate goal of identifying a path to market.

Teaching Modules

• Health System I
• Gain core medical and science knowledge
• Understand the health industry and processes and outcomes that define success
• Organizational Development and Leadership
• Address the principles of organizational structure, group dynamics, influence
• Understand the vital role you play in today's global world of constant change
• Skill Development I
• Develop interviewing skills which will be vital to the clinical immersion
• Develop brainstorming skills for individual and group effort
• Community Interaction
• Network locally, regionally and nationally
• Engage in "think-tank" activities
• Take field trips
• Engineering Fundamentals
• Understand the topics and disciplines that underlie the field of biomedical engineering
• Introduction to the engineering principles that govern the behavior of biomedical systems

Review the second phase of the Innovation Fellowship, Opportunity Exploration.