The role of hackathon in education: Can hackathon improve health and medical education?

Mohammad Hossein Yarmohammadian; Sanaz Monsef; Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard; Youseph Yazdi; Mostafa Amini-Rarani

doi:10.4103/jehp.jehp_1183_20

The role of hackathon in education: Can hackathon improve health and medical education?

J Educ Health Promot. 2021 Sep 30:10:334. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1183_20. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Mohammad Hossein Yarmohammadian¹, Sanaz Monsef¹, Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard², Youseph Yazdi³, Mostafa Amini-Rarani⁴

Affiliations

¹ Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
² Applied Physiology Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

To develop the next generation of healthcare innovators, students at all levels of education should be trained and encouraged to employ innovative and entrepreneurial approaches to deal with complicated challenges of today's health system. Applying innovation and entrepreneurship training to solve complex problems and focus on solution design has recently become common in medical universities all over the world. This paper clarifies the role of hackathons as an innovative educational approach in healthcare education systems. We propose a process model concerned with organizing hackathon events in the healthcare education system. This model can be used in the academic and practical design of hackathons for innovation purposes.

Keywords: Education; entrepreneurship; hackathon; healthcare system; innovation process.

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