Mid-year Reflections from the Biodesign Fellows: Part 1 of 2

The 2014-15 fellowship has passed the halfway mark and the three fellowship teams are deep into concept refinement and testing. This year’s cohort comprises six physicians and six engineers with a mix of clinical, business, and research backgrounds. Each of the twelve fellows arrived at Biodesign with some prior work in medical devices and each carried certain expectations about the process. In this post, six fellows discuss their prior expectations, the surprises they encountered, and how their expectations have shifted during the year.

SBAA asked these six fellows to answer the following question:

What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned about the medtech innovation process since you started the fellowship?

Their responses are below.

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