Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC) Innovation Fellowships in India

Scholarship details

 

The Healthcare technology Innovation Centre (HTIC) is pleased to invite applications for the annual Innovation fellowships it conducts annually. The fellowship programme’s main objective is to create innovators and innovations in the healthcare technology to address the growing demand and needs of the healthcare sector of India. 

The programme is spanned around 18 months and is designed for motivated interested candidates from varied diverse backgrounds such as Engineering, Medicine, Public health and social sciences, and business administration. The programme is meant for both fresh graduates and people with work experience. The fellows are meant to work in the team of two or three members.  The applications should reach within the deadline provided by the scholarship provider. 

Study subjects

The fellowship is available for creating innovators and innovations in the healthcare technology to address the growing demand and needs of the healthcare sector of India. 

Course level

The course level for the fellowship is for the research fellowship. 

Scholarship Provider

The scholarship is being provided by the Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC) of IIT Madras, India.  

Scholarship can be taken at

The scholarship can be taken only at India. 

Fellowship structure

The fellowship consists of three phases. In the first phase, the fellows will be required to undergo immersion in hospital or community health setting to get familiarised with processes. Also, the fellows are required to identify the unmet clinical and healthcare needs.  

In the second phase, the fellows will be designing and developing the solution for addressing the needs which were identified in the first phase.  In the third and final phase, fellows will validate the developed solution and preparing a plan for its field deployment.  The fellows will be asked to work in a team of two or three members. 

Eligibility criteria

The candidates shortlisted are required to have the following attributes.

1.       The candidates are required to have a full time degree in one of the following fields. Engineering, medicine, business administration, public health and social science.

2.       The candidate is required to have an open mind to learn and work in interdisciplinary fields

3.       Energetic and highly motivated, enthusiasm in hands-on work experience to build prototypes.

Scholarship Open for International students

Indian nationals/citizens of India can apply for the fellowship in the Healthcare sector.

Duration of the fellowship

The fellowship programme is for the 18 month fellowship.  

Number of fellowships

It is not known. 

Fellowship value/worth

The fellowships are fully paid fellowships with a stipend and will work full time with the research team for new innovations in healthcare sector in India.

How to apply

The motivated candidates are required to send the applications with CV and project description to the email id given innovation_fellowship-at-htic.iitm.ac.in.   

Further Information

The further information can be obtained from the following link

http://htic.iitm.ac.in/?q=htic-innovation-fellowships-2014-2015.