DES.4100 Design for Change in Health Care
This course is an introduction to design thinking. Health care imaging departments require continuous innovation to meet the needs of patients and stakeholders. Design Thinking is an action-oriented approach to creating solutions with a hands-on approach. The student will define, ideate, and prototype solutions to a problem they identify in healthcare practice. In addition to learning and participating in design thinking, students will practice the design thinking mindsets of empathy, collaboration, optimism, embracing failure, creative confidence, and a bias toward action. The course will be teamwork-oriented, and it will require independent activities that support the group work and ensure personal knowledge.