Medical Technology, Innovation and Design (MSc)

Discover the unrealised potential to improve healthcare through technological innovations. You'll learn how to identify clinical challenges, create strong business plans, and design new solutions to real healthcare problems. You'll also learn how to transfer this into commercial and entrepreneurial contexts.

Using an interdisciplinary and creative approach, this degree embeds principles of responsible innovation throughout. It addresses the assumptions that lead to healthcare technologies being developed when they are not needed or the clinical area is not fully understood.

This is the only course of its kind in the UK.

You'll study:

• health and medical technology
• healthcare and value led innovation
• challenge led design
• business planning
• commercialising technology into healthcare sectors

You'll work in small teams to work on 2 projects, 1 in the UK healthcare context and 1 in global health. This will involve observational placements immersed in clinical practice both in the UK and in a low or middle-income country.

You'll also: 

• be involved in clinical practice working alongside NHS colleagues
• travel to a low or middle income country to explore similar clinical problems
• get a business mentor to understand the commercial viability using market analysis
• learn design and sustainability principles that underpin the long-term impact of potential solutions

This course will prepare you for a career in the MedTech or Healthcare Industry, as an entrepreneur in health innovation or research. Your skills will be transferable to international health systems.

It's suitable for graduates in:

• electro, bio, or mechanical engineering
• medicine
• or allied health professionals

We would also like to hear from you If you have a serious interest in healthcare innovation, MedTech, or are looking to develop a start-up business in this area.

Course lead

Professor Cheryl Metcalf is Head of School of Healthcare Enterprise and Innovation in the Faculty of Medicine. Please email MInnTID@soton.ac.uk with any questions, and one of the team will get back to you.