8/19/2018 0 Comments Hearing from the expertsWell another week has flown by here in Madurai! From last week's observations in the operating rooms and clinics, we extracted clinical needs using a technique called mind mapping -- one of the primary needs finding skills we have learned during our summer in CBID. These clinical needs can come from all areas of patient care, from diagnosis to surgical treatment to patient follow up. But before we select an area of innovation to build our yearlong project on, we must truly validate the importance of the needs we identified and come to understand what would make a meaningful solution to address each one. That's what we did this week.
To do this, our team spoke to key stakeholders in each of the individual departments (cataract, glaucoma and retina) to understand their perspectives on each clinical need. These stakeholders included nurses and trainees, as well as junior and senior level surgeons. Speaking to people in various positions and levels of expertise gave us a holistic understanding of the needs at Aravind through the unique insights each group had to offer. And across the board, our interviews were filled with genuine passion from these devoted eyecare professionals, making us even more motivated to deliver a useful and impactful solution. Ultimately, the deeply engaging conversations we had with these medical experts will enable us to prioritize the most important points of innovation and develop a meaningful solution over the course of our CBID experience. As we move into our final week at Aravind, we're excited to take the insights gained from these interviews, collaborate with our stakeholders to answer any lingering questions, and synthesize our findings as a team before we return home to Baltimore. - Nick
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