Successful co-creation and the safe use of Medical Devices
- Credits:
- 1 ECTS credits
- Location:
- -
- Continuous learning category:
- Social welfare and health care, Environmental and natural sciences
- Teaching format:
- Independent learning, Online teaching
- Price:
- -
The basics of the co-creation, service design, usability and safe use of medical devices.
After this course, the student is able to:
- recognises the significance and opportunities of co-creation
- utilise the principles of service design and user-centred development in the development of a medical device
- describe the basics of usability and how they can be translate into practice
- list the prerequisites and principles for the safe use of medical devices
The course has no prerequisites.
This course is a part of a learning package called Key Skills in Health Technology (1 –6 ECTS). The target group of this package are the people who develop, produce and use medical devices, as well as those interested in the health technology sector. It is suitable, for example, for:
- personnel of health technology companies (especially start-ups)
- people starting out in the health technology sector
- those working in business positions related to health technology (commercialisation, export, sales, marketing)
- those involved in co-creation (research, development, and testing)
- persons who use medical devices, are responsible for procurement or supervision of the safe use of devices in the wellbeing services counties and
- RDI staff and teachers in higher education institutions
Due to funding requirements, the participant must be a resident of Finland.
The course consists of independent study in a Moodle learning environment (online studies, lecture recordings and online assignments) on your own schedule. It is graded by the successful completion of online tasks as pass/fail. The amount of independent work is c. 27 hours.
You can work in either English or Finnish. The course is open until 15.12.2026.
This course is a part of a learning package called Key Skills in Health Technology (1 –6 ECTS). The target group of this package are the people who develop, produce and use medical devices, as well as those interested in the health technology sector. It is suitable, for example, for:
- personnel of health technology companies (especially start-ups)
- people starting out in the health technology sector
- those working in business positions related to health technology (commercialisation, export, sales, marketing)
- those involved in co-creation (research, development, and testing)
- persons who use medical devices, are responsible for procurement or supervision of the safe use of devices in the wellbeing services counties and
- RDI staff and teachers in higher education institutions
This course is free of charge for the duration of the JOTPA-funded Terveysteknologian osaamistarpeet-project, which covers the whole of this course's availability this fall.
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