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We are pleased to introduce Medventions Atlantic, a full-time, four-month paid program that allows students and new grads to participate in paid, physician-led, hospital-based fellowship training that equips aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs with a proven process to identify important healthcare needs and invent novel technologies to address them.

The Fall 2023 Medventions Atlantic program will run from September to December 2023.

Selected candidates will work together as a group, under the supervision of clinical and research mentors. The team will get the opportunity to uncover innovation and translational research opportunities in the fields of psychiatry and surgical oncology.

Compensation will commensurate with experience.

Skills & Qualifications

The ideal candidate is an individual with a strong entrepreneurial drive, passion for health care innovation and a desire to build something with a strong positive impact, and demonstrated potential for creativity, invention, leadership and business development.

Applicants should either be current students (graduate or upper year undergraduate), or recent grads (graduated within the past two years).

Application Criteria

When preparing your application, please prepare a single PDF with the following:

– your resume,

– a cover letter (In your cover letter, please respond to the following question: Why is medical technology innovation an important part of your career pathway?),

– a copy of your undergraduate transcript (and graduate transcript if applicable), and

– the names and contact information for two referees who have agreed to be contacted.

Deadline for applications is June 30, 2023 at 7pm EDT. Send your full application package to medventions@nshealth.ca with the following subject line: Medventions Atlantic 2023 Application.

We thank all applicants for their interest but only candidates short-listed for interview will be contacted.

To learn more, visit the Medventions Atlantic website, or email medventions@nshealth.ca.