AE: Collaborative Health Innovation

School of Medicine

The Advanced Elective in Health Innovation is a rare opportunity for graduate & professional students from different Vanderbilt schools & programs to come together and design a solution to a real-world healthcare problem. Wicked Problems — those involving complex adaptive systems with many stakeholders and competing priorities — require radical collaboration across siloes of expertise. This is the reality for any student entering the healthcare industry. However, opportunities to train with your inter-professional colleagues prior to entering the field, are often limited due to logistics of educational design & delivery. This course aims to provide students with the opportunity to learn in the same way we expect them to work — by engaging with team members of varying expertise to meet current pressing needs for our patients, health system, and community.