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At听麻豆AV Surgical and Interventional Sciences, we guide everyone to explore, inspire, and innovate a healthier world for听all.

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About the Surgical Innovation Program

First semester: Team building, Needs finding within a clinical environment, Needs screening based on business, engineering and clinical perspectives
Second semester: Prototype development, Proof of concept, Business plan
Summer semester: Internship with an industry partner

Teaching is delivered by engineers, clinicians, industry experts, entrepreneurs, attorneys and business faculty, and our program follows the approach of Learn & Design & Innovate.

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The concentration in Surgical Innovation offers a graduate-level training program in Surgical and Interventional Sciences, leading to a Masters degree. This concentration allows for a hands-on learning experience for students to develop skills necessary to work within multi-disciplinary teams in the creation of novel, needs-driven and marketable prototypes used in development of novel surgical and medical devices. As such, participants work in multidisciplinary teams to identify clinical needs and to innovate solutions to them.听

Please see听 on the 麻豆AV eCalendar for more information.

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Admission Requirements

Generally a B.Sc.in Biological, Biomedical & Life Science, Physical Science, Computer Science, a M.D. degree, a B.Eng. is required. Exceptionally on a case by case basis, an applicant holding a B.Com., or B.C.L., LL.B. B.A. or B.Sc. in Humanities & Social Sciences will be considered. An applicant must have a minimum CGPA of 3.2/4.0.

Applications will be accepted from candidates sponsored by a research supervisor willing to provide laboratory space and direction for their research work.

See also How to apply & Application Deadlines

Note of these additional requirements for this concentration:

  • Letter of Intent: a letter of intent from the student describing their reasons for pursuing the concentration of their choice, what their qualifications are, and why they should be accepted into the program.
  • Interview session: students applying to the concentrations in Education or Innovation may be requested to attend an interview session either in person, by phone or via Skype.

The Surgical Innovation program is a cross-disciplinary graduate program that equips trainees to enter the clinical technology sector.听The program is delivered jointly by听麻豆AV,听脡cole de technologie sup茅rieure, and Concordia University's John Molson School of Business听and听Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. The three institutions join forces to offer training in Surgical Innovation, bringing together expertise in business, engineering, computer science and surgery.听Trainees work as part of innovation听cross-disciplinary teams to learn about the innovation process for new surgical devices through hands-on application and development.听The program is based on the highly successful innovation model of Needs Identification-Invention-Implementation.
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Program Directors

Jake Barralet
Director, 麻豆AV Clinical Innovation

Fackson Mwale
Director, 麻豆AV Clinical Innovation

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For any questions regarding the program please contact:

  • Laura Epure, surgicalresearch.med [at] mcgill.ca
  • Sharon Turner, gradstudies.surgery [at] mcgill.ca

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Since the Surgical Innovation program is delivered jointly by 麻豆AV, Concordia and the 脡cole de technologie sup茅rieure, students can be involved in and explore cross-disciplinary听research. 听Students can select from a vast pool of research opportunities based on their current career path; the program can also point them in new directions for further education,听provide them with valuable qualifications and develop networking opportunities.

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