Stanford Courses
Stanford Biodesign Courses
Stanford Biodesign offers a portfolio of courses to students enrolled at Stanford. These courses are open to Stanford undergraduates (U), graduate students (G), and PhDs/postdocs (P) as shown in the chart below. Learn more about each offering using the links that follow.
Biodesign Fundamentals
A one-quarter, project-based course that introduces undergraduate students to health technology innovation and key issues and trends affecting the field. (U)
Biodesign Innovation
A two-quarter, project-based course that brings together multidisciplinary student teams to address real-world medical needs by learning and applying the end-to-end biodesign innovation process. (G) (P)
Biodesign for Digital Health
A one-quarter, experiential, project-based course that exposes students to the biodesign innovation process in the context of the rapidly growing digital health sector. (U) (G) (P)
Biodesign and Entrepreneurship for Societal Health
A one-quarter course focused on leveraging the biodesign innovation process to address the social and environmental drivers of health. (G)
Bioengineering Capstone
A two-quarter, project-based course that provides teams of undergraduate engineering students with the opportunity to design and develop health technologies to address unmet patient needs. (U)
Building for Digital Health
A one-quarter, project-based course that enables computer science students to apply their skills to real-world health technology development projects, while enabling the sponsoring faculty from Stanford Medicine to more effectively advance those projects toward patients. (U) (G)
Global Biodesign
A one-quarter, interactive seminar series that exposes students to the challenges and opportunities of developing and implementing innovative medical technologies to help patients around the world. (U) (G) (P)
Medical Device Innovation
A one-quarter, project-based course that invites freshmen and sophomores to invent and build medical devices, to learn how medical innovations are brought from concept to clinical adoption, and to apply design thinking to the broader healthcare system. (U)
Needs Finding in Healthcare
A three-week intersession course for rising sophomores that provides participants with a unique opportunity to conduct a first-hand clinical immersion and perform need research to translate their observations into meaningful unmet needs. (U)
Pathophysiology and Design for Cardiovascular Disease
A one quarter, project-based introductory seminar for freshman and sophomores. Focusing on heart disease, students in this seminar will learn how to apply the Biodesign approach to innovate in the context of healthcare. (U)
Technology Assessment and Regulation of Medical Devices
A one-quarter deep dive into the regulatory and payer environment in the U.S. and abroad, and common methods of health technology assessment. (U) (G) (P)