Institutionalizing healthcare hackathons to promote diversity in collaboration in medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical students and healthcare professionals can benefit from exposure to cross-disciplinary teamwork and core concepts of medical innovation. Indeed, to address complex challenges in patient care, diversity in collaboration across medicine, engineering, business, and design is critical. However, a limited number of academic institutions have established cross-disciplinary opportunities for students and young professionals within these domains to work collaboratively towards diverse healthcare needs.

Methods

Drawing upon best practices from computer science and engineering, healthcare hackathons bring together interdisciplinary teams of students and professionals to collaborate, brainstorm, and build solutions to unmet clinical needs. Over the course of six month

SUBMITTER: Wang JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6245929 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature