Keck School of Medicine
Graduate Certificate in Health, Technology and Engineering (HTE@USC)
Academic Director: Terry Sanger, M.D., Ph.D., Provost Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Neurology, Biokinesiology, and Physical Therapy
Administrative Director: George Tolomiczenko, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Neurology
This program offers current second-year USC Ph.D. engineering students and first-year M.D. students an opportunity to learn about and gain experience in medical device and process innovation. Through project-based and interdisciplinary collaboration, students will augment their current programs with a set of courses and lab experiences linking medical and engineering research groups. By applying design-informed approaches toward problem identification and solution prototyping, students will be involved in all the steps of medical device innovation from conception to commercialization. The program aims to create interdisciplinary, boundary-spanning, inventive entrepreneurs seeking early practical experience with device and method innovation in health care. Program participants will form bonds with a group of like-minded medical students and engineers who will be their mentors, colleagues and contacts as they advance in their careers.
The courses unique to the program include a seminar sequence (Topics in Health, Technology and Engineering), which must be taken during the first two years of involvement with the HTE@USC program, a case studies sequence taken during the second year and a research course to earn project-related credits:
| courses | Units | |
|---|---|---|
| BME 566abcd | Topics in Health, Technology and Engineering | 2-2-2-2 |
| BME 567ab | Case Studies in Health, Technology and Engineering | 1-1 |
| 790 | Research (in the student’s major department) | 2-8 |
Other required courses that are part of the M.D. curriculum (Ph.D. students enroll in INTD course versions of the same courses open only to HTE students on CR/NC basis):
| INTD 621ab | Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM) for HTE | 3-3 |
| INTD 622L | Pre-clinical System Block for Health, Technology and Engineering | 3-5 |
Candidates interested in applying should contact HTE@usc.edu via email.