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Build a team of surgeons and get up to $1 million with MIT Solve and Nesta Challenges

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Description

GLOBAL SURGICAL TRAINING CHALLENGE

The Intuitive Foundation, in partnership with MIT Solve and Nesta Challenges, launched the Global Surgical Training Challenge to deliver novel, low-cost surgical training modules for surgeons and surgical trainees, especially in resource-constrained settings around the world.

MIT Solve will host a series of Solveathon workshops – virtual, high-energy workshops designed to build teams and strengthen their applications for the Global Surgical Training Challenge.

Solveathon workshops will be hosted virtually in five regions around the world. Each region will have three activities: online networking, a Team Building Solveathon Workshop, and a Refinement Solveathon Workshop.

Opportunity Focus Areas:
Surgical Education
Creation of Simulation Technology
Specialties
  • Medicine & Health, Nursing
Eligibilities
  • Age
  • Not Specified
  • Gender
  • All
  • Nationality
  • Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, Yemen
  • Required Languages
English
Level:
good
Solution applications must be written in English.
  • Required Experience
Education specialists with experience working in resource-constrained settings.
Surgeons, midwives, and nurses with experience working in resource-constrained settings.
  • Other Requirements
Eligibilities:
Engineers and software and game developers.
Other:
Artists, medical illustrators, and designers.
Benefits
Grant
This Challenge, funded by the Intuitive Foundation, will award grants in phases, starting with Discovery Awards of up to $200,000 to at least ten teams in December 2020 to support prototype development.
Grant
$500,000 will be awarded at the Finalist stage to advance model development.
Grant
$1 million will be awarded to the team that has demonstrated that its original model and additional models developed as a Finalist are validated and impactful.
Others
Solveathon workshops, in which, you will: Connect with professionals who are interested in surgical training, Further your understanding of the Challenge and requirements to compete, Build or expand your project team, Refine your project through facilitated design thinking activities developed at MIT, Work to develop your knowledge on how to compile a skills assessment framework.
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  • Created by
  • Omar Sharaki/ Saudi Arabia
  • Published by
  • Esraa Allam/Egypt
  • Reviewed by
  • Samah Mubarak / Egypt
  • Opportunity Type
  • Competitions, Contests, Awards, Prizes, Non-Degree Opportunities
  • Funding Type
  • Award/Prize/Funding/Grant
  • Program Period
  • Program End
  • 01/08/2021
  • Location
  • Online
  • Deadline
  • 11/11/2020
  • Prototype Showcase on August 1, 2021 at 12:00 EDT
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