About Medventions Atlantic:

The Medventions program is an immersive physician-led, hospital-based four-month fellowship program where multidisciplinary teams of clinicians, engineers, and life sciences graduates identify and validate hundreds of needs in a selected clinical area. Teams then select the most promising needs; prototype and test solutions; explore initial tech-transfer, regulatory and reimbursement issues and develop a plan for further research and development.

The Medventions Atlantic program, hosted at the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub in collaboration with Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Engineering, has several openings for a temporary full-time Medventions Fellow. The Fall 2025 program is set to begin in September 2025 and end in December 2025.

The selected team will get the opportunity to uncover innovation and translational research opportunities in the fields of big data, image-guided therapy, and AI. See below eligibility, and application criteria.

Program Structure:

The program is structured into three immersive phases:

• Phase 1: Clinical Immersion & Needs Identification - Shadow Physicians to identify meaningful clinical challenges.
• Phase 2: Ideation & Concept Generation - Collaborate across disciplines to brainstorm, validate, and refine high-impact solutions.
• Phase 3: Prototyping & Early Validation - Build and test early prototypes, supported by mentorship in design, regulatory strategy, reimbursements, and commercialization.

Generally, fellows are required to:

• Perform clinical observations through shadowing physicians in operating rooms, outpatient clinics, and inpatient exams (on medicine floors, neonatal intensive care units, etc.)
• Identify and document clinical challenges that impose a significant clinical burden
• Complete thorough analysis for the identified problems; this includes a stakeholder and market analysis, and a study for the disease state fundamentals and treatment options. Interns will also research and consult with faculty & perform literature and patent searches.
• Develop a medical solution concept that addresses the clinical need and problem identified
• Translate the final concept into a prototype – the goal is to use prototyping to create design requirements and generate high-level specifications related to technical feasibility for the innovation under consideration.

Skills & Qualifications:

The ideal candidate is an individual with a strong entrepreneurial drive, passion for health care innovation and a desire to build something with a strong positive impact, and demonstrated potential for creativity, invention, leadership and business development.

We are looking for aspiring innovators, engineers, designers, and business professionals who have:

• Entrepreneurial mindset: action and detail oriented, analytical, sees problems as opportunities, comfortable with ambiguity, self-learner with strong business acumen
• Proven ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrated excellence in problem-solving, decision making, and critical thinking.
• Highly motivated individual with the ability to work under pressure.
• Strong interest in innovation and change across health care, design thinking, entrepreneurship and creativity.
• Proven excellent interpersonal skills and effective oral/written communication skills.
• Background/experience in medicine, engineering and/or business is an asset

Eligibility Criteria

To participate in the Medventions Atlantic program you need to be either:

• Current undergrad or graduate-level student or,
• Have graduated from undergrad or graduate school no more than two years from the Medventions Atlantic program start date.
• Fellows must be available Monday-Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM for the duration of the fellowship.
• Tuberculosis testing is required prior to the start date – costs will not be reimbursed by the Medventions Atlantic program.

Application Criteria:

When preparing your application, please prepare a single PDF with the following:

• Resume
• Cover letter
• Copy of your undergraduate transcript (and graduate transcript if applicable)
• Names and contact information for two references who have agreed to be contacted.

Cover Letter Criteria:

• In your cover letter, please respond to the following question: Why is medical technology innovation an important part of your career pathway?

Compensation:

• This is a temporary full-time, paid internship. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

How to apply:

• To apply, email your application to medventions@nshealth.ca by June 30, 2025, or submit a single PDF file via LinkedIn.