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The Why and How of Entrepreneurship Education in Healthcare Training

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Healthcare entrepreneurship is teaching students how to create companies, and more broadly, how to create value through medical practice, technology, education, intrapreneurship and social entrepreneurship as well. There are a host of large scale and individual level positive (opportunity) and negative (avoiding consequence) drivers of healthcare entrepreneurship programs. Entrepreneurship is, by its very nature, a versatile life school. Entrepreneurship education in healthcare training can benefit healthcare professionals, employers, consumers, hospitals, and the US economy. Challenges to implementing entrepreneurship education programs relate to finances, faculty, institutional characteristics, logistics, and time. The validity and methodology of assessing outcomes varies widely amongst programs. As there is no consensus on measures used to assess the short term or long-term value of these programs and peer reviewed literature on programs is minimal, the value of these programs as currently deployed is relatively unknown and certainly questionable. A review of entrepreneurship education in STEM, Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health, Dentistry, Occupational Therapy, and Physician training programs was conducted. Large variety can be found in course structure, pedagogical techniques, and the trainee population. A combination of didactic and active learning techniques, team-based learning, use of technology, and incorporation of a final project were common. Topics emphasized frequently in programs include thinking and problem solving, social skills, engineering, leadership, and a host of business and systems related knowledge and skills. Weaknesses in entrepreneurship education curricula and research are noted, and suggestions for future programs and data reporting are described.

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Table 14.1 Challenges to implementing entrepreneurship education in healthcare training programs
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Table 14.2 Common curricular elements and important curricular considerations
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Table 14.3 Knowledge, skills, and aptitudes (KSAs) frequently taught in entrepreneurship courses/programs
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Table 14.4 Weaknesses in body of research for entrepreneurship education in health training programs
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Table 14.5 Recommendations for teaching and reporting entrepreneurship education courses
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Table 14.6 Suggestions for further reading
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Berg, O., Meyers, A. (2023). The Why and How of Entrepreneurship Education in Healthcare Training. In: Meyers, A. (eds) Digital Health Entrepreneurship. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33902-8_14

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