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Carmen Kut
Jul 30, 2013, 4:47:25 PM7/30/13
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Hello everyone,
India countdown @ 2 days!
Several announcements:
1) Please find attached for an updated final project assignment.
2) Let's plan to have our first team breakfast in India at the hotel on Saturday, with a team meeting between 10am - 12pm to discuss the following:
- Design a 1-2 minute elevator pitch for the device
- Practice a 1-2 minute pitch to orient our audience (explain why we are here, who we are, sidestep cultural faux pax, and using the right approach to encourage a physician/nurse/midwife to open up and tell you about the clinical ecosystem in India).
- Cheryl has a lot of experience working on an international setting and has graciously offered to prime us on what to expect and what not to say :) Thanks Cheryl!
- Convene in individual teams and finalize the interview list - what our major goals are for each team, and what are the key questions we should ask in various settings
- Set up the team leader rotation schedule (for example: Cheryl as team leader Aug 3rd, Eklavya Aug 4th, Tim Aug 5th etc etc) and define concrete goals for each day (e.g. outline major goals for the team Aug 3rd, prepare for team presentation Aug 4th, summarize distributor meeting Aug 5th). Team leader responsibilities include: host team meeting in the evening, make sure team completes the predefined goals-of-the-day, write up a blog entry about your personal experience in India, submitting photos on behalf of the team to Jack and Matthew to upload the blog)
And last but not the least - decide where we want to go for sightseeing for the rest of Aug 3rd! This is our most event-free weekend so take advantage of it :) I think Tim and Eklavya and Malvi have some ideas as well.
I will send an separate email to the team about our rough itinerary when in India so everyone has a clue about what we are about to get into :)
Can't wait to see you all at the airport,
Carmen
Carmen
India countdown @ 2 days!
Several announcements:
1) Please find attached for an updated final project assignment.
2) Let's plan to have our first team breakfast in India at the hotel on Saturday, with a team meeting between 10am - 12pm to discuss the following:
- Design a 1-2 minute elevator pitch for the device
- Practice a 1-2 minute pitch to orient our audience (explain why we are here, who we are, sidestep cultural faux pax, and using the right approach to encourage a physician/nurse/midwife to open up and tell you about the clinical ecosystem in India).
- Cheryl has a lot of experience working on an international setting and has graciously offered to prime us on what to expect and what not to say :) Thanks Cheryl!
- Convene in individual teams and finalize the interview list - what our major goals are for each team, and what are the key questions we should ask in various settings
- Set up the team leader rotation schedule (for example: Cheryl as team leader Aug 3rd, Eklavya Aug 4th, Tim Aug 5th etc etc) and define concrete goals for each day (e.g. outline major goals for the team Aug 3rd, prepare for team presentation Aug 4th, summarize distributor meeting Aug 5th). Team leader responsibilities include: host team meeting in the evening, make sure team completes the predefined goals-of-the-day, write up a blog entry about your personal experience in India, submitting photos on behalf of the team to Jack and Matthew to upload the blog)
And last but not the least - decide where we want to go for sightseeing for the rest of Aug 3rd! This is our most event-free weekend so take advantage of it :) I think Tim and Eklavya and Malvi have some ideas as well.
I will send an separate email to the team about our rough itinerary when in India so everyone has a clue about what we are about to get into :)
Can't wait to see you all at the airport,
Carmen
Carmen
Malvi Hemani
Jul 30, 2013, 4:52:05 PM7/30/13
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For those of you on Neo2Inspire, Barbara and I made an entire questionnaire that we used when we were in Nepal and it has proven to be very successful. It is in the Dropbox folder if anyone would like to take a look. It looks long but most of the questions
are strung in an order of how the conversation would go.
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Carmen Kut
Jul 30, 2013, 5:05:55 PM7/30/13
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Malvi and Barbara - The questionnaire is very comprehensive and a fantastic start - thanks so much for working on it!
Neo2Inspire Team: I think the active items we have on Saturday would be to get the elevator pitch and the warming-up pitch (aka how to get the audience to open up and give us the right type of feedback), before we start the interview/questions. One good idea would also be to highlight several high-priority questions that we want answered (if we only have several minutes with a physician in the hallway or in the NICU). Another idea is to have each team member responsible for memorizing one section of the questionnaire - it may be higher yield if we start with open-ended questions and identify the clinical ecosystem around the problem (e.g. Could you lead me through the steps of the hospital protocol when a baby stops breathing?)
Also - I would encourage everyone to read Dr. Gupta, Dr. Acharya and Dr. Bollingers' lecture notes again in the dropbox folder, or even to add your own notes and share it with everyone.
Clinical pearls to take away from all 3 lectures (for us to elaborate on this Saturday) - preface with the fact that we are all students and not at the final stages of our careers- we are here to learn from the best in India. We have heard wonderful things from our colleagues XXX about your hospital XXX, and we want to learn from a top leader such as yourself about the challenges you face every day in clinic, and what we could do together to make the device better. We are interested in XXX problem, and one of our prototype ideas is to XXX (go into elevator pitch about device). So that we can learn from you and understand about the clinical environment better, could you walk us through the steps your hospital will take when a baby stops breathing? ....(and it goes on from there).
Thoughts and ideas and recommendations to the team most welcome :) Everyone chime in please!
Carmen
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:52:05 +0000
Neo2Inspire Team: I think the active items we have on Saturday would be to get the elevator pitch and the warming-up pitch (aka how to get the audience to open up and give us the right type of feedback), before we start the interview/questions. One good idea would also be to highlight several high-priority questions that we want answered (if we only have several minutes with a physician in the hallway or in the NICU). Another idea is to have each team member responsible for memorizing one section of the questionnaire - it may be higher yield if we start with open-ended questions and identify the clinical ecosystem around the problem (e.g. Could you lead me through the steps of the hospital protocol when a baby stops breathing?)
Also - I would encourage everyone to read Dr. Gupta, Dr. Acharya and Dr. Bollingers' lecture notes again in the dropbox folder, or even to add your own notes and share it with everyone.
Clinical pearls to take away from all 3 lectures (for us to elaborate on this Saturday) - preface with the fact that we are all students and not at the final stages of our careers- we are here to learn from the best in India. We have heard wonderful things from our colleagues XXX about your hospital XXX, and we want to learn from a top leader such as yourself about the challenges you face every day in clinic, and what we could do together to make the device better. We are interested in XXX problem, and one of our prototype ideas is to XXX (go into elevator pitch about device). So that we can learn from you and understand about the clinical environment better, could you walk us through the steps your hospital will take when a baby stops breathing? ....(and it goes on from there).
Thoughts and ideas and recommendations to the team most welcome :) Everyone chime in please!
Carmen
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:52:05 +0000
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