Design thinking in North American undergraduate medical education
As medical students graduate into an increasingly complex healthcare system, researchers, clinicians, and policy makers have called for novel curricular initiatives. Design thinking is a structured innovation framework used regularly in business and engineering. We surveyed and interviewed design thinking educators in medical schools and mapped key themes to curricular accreditation standards in the US and Canada. Although we found significant program heterogeneity, all programs emphasised skills in problem definition in complex spaces and interdisciplinary collaboration. These skills mapped to key curricular content areas. Standardised outcome-based evaluation of students competencies will help further develop the intersection between design and medical education.
Authors
- Lana M. Minshew (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4918-2944)
- Patricia Beirne
- Amanda Sammann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8044-7165)
- Alexander Langerman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0866-463X)
- Matthew Trowbridge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8012-1966)
- R.H. Buckley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4162-6651)
- Kim Erwin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0347-0940)
- Hugh Musick
- Raymond H. Curry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3381-0125)
- Miiri Kotche (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0474-4176)
- Archit V. Potharazu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5613-5834)
- Jerry A. Krishnan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5525-4778)
- Peter Jones (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4218-9334)
- Santosh Basapur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6287-1221)
- Morgan Hutchinson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4771-2123)
- Robert Sherrod
Institutions
- Rush University Medical Center (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Illinois Institute of Technology (US)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Medical College of Wisconsin (US)
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (US)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Jefferson University Hospitals (US)
- Parsons School of Design (US)
- University of Virginia (US)
- Tecnológico de Monterrey (MX)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Journal of Health Design
- Published
- 2024-12-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21853/jhd.2024.233
- Primary Topic
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00