Welcome to SoPE Sicktech School

As the number of physician entrepreneurs grows, we need to do a better job of creating platforms to help them find gigs or jobs in the sicktech industry i.e. drugs, devices, diagnostics, digital health, digital therapeutics, care delivery, mededtech, finsicktech and other industries that are trying to achieve the quintuple aim.

The problems are:

1. Poor understanding and communication of expectations between potential advisors and company founders
2. Not clearly stating the problem that needs to be solved
3. Not mutually agreeing to the terms and conditions of a potentential engagement
4. Physicians lacking the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies to create speed to value.

To fill that gap, here is what you will learn in SoPE Sicktech School:

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Be able to create value for a sicktech company as an advisory, consultant or member of the management team.
2. Develop and practice sicktech entrepreneurial competencies
3. Understand the intracacies of various sicktech ecosystems and medical specialty issues
4. Understand and overcome the barriers to dissemination and implementation of sickcare technologies

MODULES

1. Sickcare systems science and innovation ecosystems
2. Intellectual property
3. Regulatory affairs
4. Product development
5. Sales and Marketing
6. Reinbursement and revenue models
7. Lean startup techniques
8. Financing entrepreneurial ventures
9. Non-clinical career tools and strategy
10. How to find a job in a sicktech industry segment
11. Networks, mentors, peer support and personal branding.
12. Fundamentals of physician entrepreneurship
13. Ethics and professionalism
14. Business models
15. Physician entrepreneur wellness

Education is but the first step in perfecting your sicktech advisory capacity. You will also need resources, networks, mentors, peer support and career guidance.

But, the physician entrepreneurial journey of a thousand miles starts with the first educational step.

Apply now.

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is the President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs