MICE Labs

In their own words

Everyone agrees that the Indian healthcare system is broken and the only way to fix this is to teach the next generation of doctors to think out of the box. Medical colleges need to reinvent themselves so they can give the young , intelligent, technically-savvy medical students who are passionate about healthcare an opportunity to come up with innovative solutions which allow them to take care of patients on a much larger scale than doctors did in the past. We need to upgrade medical education to create a new generation of doctors who are future-ready. This is why the Medical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab, launched on Sept 5 2018 ( Teacher’s Day) at J J Hospital,Mumbai. This is a hands-on Tinkering Lab and maker space for medical students, which will encourage doctors and medical students to do things with their own hands, so they can create solutions to indigenous problems. Such a lab would provide for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Medical students could talk to engineers, psychologists, sociologists, senior doctors, patients and designers under one roof, so that perspectives from different fields could be blended together to create brand new solutions which are co-created for Indian conditions. Doctors are very well positioned to create solutions to medical problems . Doctors understand the pain points of patients, so that the solutions they provide will be practical and feasible, and can be implemented easily according to the Indian scenario.We need to catch them young, and help them to grow. This would also be very energizing for senior doctors. They would have an opportunity to see some of their innovations come to light, as they interact with engineers and technocrats, and this would be a great way of making use of their extensive clinical expertise. Medical colleges do already collaborate with pharma companies when doing clinical research - they need to start thinking on a much bigger scale now, so they can partner with IT companies and medical device manufacturers as well ! So our aim is to collaborate and partner with organizations like yours that take lead and a step towards training and mentoring a new breed of doctors. Our website is www.micelabs.in.

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