Frequently Asked Questions
Ans. Medical Innovation Creativity & Entrepreneurship Lab, A maker space made and equipped with tools that provides medical students, doctors and engineers to come together to tinker with technology so that some solutions can be obtained that can be used to solve problems that are there in the current medical treatment and diagnosis domains.
Ans. Engineers and researchers present at the lab will be working in continuous cross collaborations with doctors and medicos in ideating and making different innovative medical devices and trying to make this reach out to patients to help them and benefit them in their treatment, diagnosis and prevention of the disease.
Ans. No, not at all, This lab is to help doctors and medical students well aware of various tools that are there for innovations.
Even as doctors are technologists. Why should we have doctors who are technologically illiterate
Ans. M.I.C.E Labs has established its first center in JJ Hospital, Mumbai in collaboration with Govt. Of Maharashtra and is helping out the medical students at Grant Government medical College students to innovate.
Ans. There is a standard procedure for innovation, be it medical innovation or be it any innovation.
Ideate – Design – Prototype and test – Clinical trials – Product – Market reach
Ans. We at M.I.C.E Labs are reinventing the medical education and making the young budding doctors future ready. We want doctors to use the tools of technology and that can be helpful for health care technology.
Its not only medical students but also doctors who can come and collaborate with us to make a useful medical innovation idea.
Ans. The following tools are available:-
1. Advanced Electronics:- Micro controllers, Motors, Resistors, Circuit boards, etc.
2. Advanced Manufacturing:- 3D Printing, laser cutting, Lathe etc.
3. 3D Graphic Interfaces:- Technologies like Virtual Realty and Augmented Reality.
4. Robotics:- Basic Robotic tools like arm and humanoid.