The Ultimate Physician Entrepreneurship Course

A Roadmap to building a successful Healthcare Startup

Physician, Innovate Thyself!

$3500 - $2899

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22
Themes

Physician Focused

80
Hours

On-Demand Videos

90
Sessions

A-Z of Entrepreneurship

65
Instructors

Mentorship from experts

The goal of this course is to equip physicians with the tools, knowledge and skills to grow companies that offer effective and scalable solutions to widespread problems impacting health and health care. The content is designed to empower founders to become successful but also personally fulfilled entrepreneurs.


This 80+ hour compilation of on-demand coursework offers practical strategies for physicians looking to pivot to entrepreneurship. It features timely, recorded talks by experienced thought leaders including physicians who offer personal and practical insights from their entrepreneurial paths, including challenges, rewards, and lessons learned. Classes span easy to navigate themes including but not limited to: product design, partnerships, financials, funding, commercialization.  65+ seasoned instructors offer practical advice including what not to do!

Have you had these thoughts?

  • I want to make a difference in healthcare but don't know how
  • I wonder what other physicians are doing to create income outside of medicine
  • As physicians, our jobs are not as stable as they used to be. What additional skills do I need to stabilize it?
  • The past years have shown that physician income is not guaranteed. What other income sources can I generate?
  • Healthcare startups are popping up everywhere. How can I as a physician be a part of the action?
  • I have a great Idea but don’t know how to get funding

If you answered yes to any or all of the above, this course is for you.

This course can provide physicians with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to succeed as healthcare entrepreneurs, leading to improved patient care, career opportunities, and personal fulfilment.

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Uli K. Chettipally, MD, MPH is an award-winning researcher, public speaker, and pioneering physician specializing in technology-enabled care and innovation.

He has curated The Ultimate Physician Entrepreneurship Course. Drawing from his own experiences, Dr. Chettipally has developed a program that equips physicians with the necessary tools, knowledge, and insights to navigate the entrepreneurial landscape.

He is the founder of Sirica Therapeutics, an early-stage startup creating a device system for autism using robotics, virtual reality, and video gaming. He is also the founder and President of InnovatorMD, the world's largest physician innovation platform focused on advancing healthcare solutions through education, mentorship, and events. Additionally, he manages a Health Tech pre-seed accelerator in partnership with the Founder Institute.

Course Curriculum

Pivoting to Entrepreneurship
  • Physician Career Planning
  • **Assessment - Physician Career Planning
  • Lessons learned from a physician turned medical device CEO
  • **Assessment - Lessons learned from a physician turned medical device CEO
  • How To Identify Health Startup Opportunities
  • **Assessment - How To Identify Health Startup Opportunities
  • 10 Reasons Why Most Health Entrepreneurs Get Stuck (and what to do about it)
  • **Assessment - 10 Reasons Why Most Health Entrepreneurs Get Stuck (and what to do about it)
  • Physician Innovation
  • **Assessment - Physician Innovation
  • Starting a company in difficult time
  • **Assessment - Starting a Company in Difficult Times
  • Inspiring Physician Innovators
  • **Assessment - Inspiring Physician Innovators
Design Thinking
  • Design Thinking for Healthcare Innovation
  • **Assessment - Design Thinking for Healthcare Innovation
Product Development & Innovation
  • From Idea To Product Session 1 - Opportunities & Challenges
  • **Assessment - From Idea To Product Session 1 - Opportunities & Challenges
  • From Idea To Product Session 2 - Finding, Building & Testing Solutions
  • **Assessment - From Idea To Product Session 2 - Finding, Building & Testing Solutions
  • From Idea to Product, Session 3 - Quality & Regulatory
  • **Assessment - From Idea to Product, Session 3 - Quality & Regulatory
  • From Idea to Product Session 4 - Development & Production
  • **Assessment - From Idea to Product Session 4 -Development & Production
  • Finding & Evaluating Design & Manufacturing Resources for Startups
  • **Assessment - Finding & Evaluating Design & Manufacturing Resources for Startups
  • The Innovator's Product Journey: The predictable obstacles and techniques to overcome them
  • **Assessment - The Innovator's Product Journey
Commercialization / Sales
  • Commercializing Your Device Ideas
  • **Assessment - Commercializing Your Device Ideas
  • Digital Health Sales Training
  • **Assessment - Digital Health Sales Training
  • Updates in Direct to Consumer Virtual Health and Wellness
Patents
  • Global & US Patents
  • **Assessments - Global & US Patents
  • Prenuptial Patenting: Responsible Engagement with Engineering Firms
  • **Assessment - Prenuptial Patenting: Responsible Engagement with Engineering Firms
  • Stronger Life Science Patents
  • **Assessments - Stronger Life Science Patents
Pitching
  • How To Pitch Your Business And Secure Investors
  • **Assessment - How To Pitch Your Business And Secure Investors
  • Why you, why now, why this company? The critical investor question and how to answer it.
  • **Assessment - Why you, why now, why this company? The critical investor question & answers.
Engaging with Investors
  • Engaging with Investors
  • **Assessment - Engaging with Investors
  • Moving from “Pitching" to Engagement: How to engage investors effectively
  • **Assessment - Moving from “Pitching" to Engagement: How to engage investors effectively
Fundraising
  • Finding Funding for Your Startup
  • **Assessment - Finding Funding for Your Startup
  • NIH Grants for Startups
  • **Assessment - NIH Grants for Startups
  • How to get venture funding
  • **Assessment - How to get venture funding
  • Capital Funding for Physician Healthcare Growth Companies
  • **Assessment - Capital Funding for Physician Healthcare Growth Companies
  • Venture Capital for Healthcare
  • **Assessment - Venture Capital for Healthcare
  • Funding your Start-up
  • **Assessment - Funding your Start-up
Growing Revenue
  • Develop a Direct-Pay Strategy to Grow Revenue and Simplify Operations
  • **Assessment - Develop a Direct-Pay Strategy to Grow Revenue and Simplify Operations
Patient Centered & Engaged Care
  • Engaging Patients Remotely in a Post-Pandemic World
  • **Assessment - Engaging Patients Remotely in a Post-Pandemic World
Physician Culture & Engagement
  • Building a Positive Culture with 8 Lifestyles of Positive People™
  • **Assessment - Building a Positive Culture with 8 Lifestyles of Positive People™
  • Engaging Physicians in Medical Device Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • **Assessment - Engaging Physicians in Medical Device Innovation
  • Technology and the Culture of Medicine
  • **Assessment - Technology and the Culture of Medicine
  • Involving clinicians is key: How Emergency Medicine buy-in is central to successful Hospital at Home
  • **Assessment - Involving clinicians is key
  • Top three must do’s to become influential and engaging as a physician innovator.
  • **Assessment - Top three must do’s to become influential and engaging as a physician innovator.
  • COPE Leadership
  • **Assessment - COPE Leadership
Future of Healthcare
  • The clinician-first future of work in healthcare
  • **Assessment - The clinician-first future of work in healthcare
  • The Future of Medicaid
  • **Assessment - The Future of Medicaid
  • When Low-Tech Wins
  • **Assessment - When Low-Tech Wins
  • Organizing the world’s clinical outcomes
  • **Assessment - Organizing the world’s clinical outcomes
  • Invisible Innovation that will Change Medical Technology in the next 10 years
  • **Assessment - Invisible Innovation that will Change Medical Technology in the next 10 years
  • Transformative Care: The Future of Healthcare
  • **Assessment - Transformative Care: The Future of Healthcare
  • Space is open for business including health tech
  • **Assessment - Space is open for business including health tech
  • The Next Frontier in Spine, Musculoskeletal and Pain Care
  • **Assessment - The Next Frontier in Spine, Musculoskeletal and Pain Care
  • Health 3.0: Blockchain is the Future of Health Data
  • **Assessment - Health 3.0: Blockchain is the Future of Health Data
New Models of Care
  • The Great Primary Care Land Grab
  • **Assessment - The Great Primary Care Land Grab
  • Redesigning the next decade for the Spine, Orthopedic and Musculoskeletal Care
  • **Assessment - Redesigning the next decade for the Spine, Orthopedic and Musculoskeletal Care
Physician Burn-out
  • Burning up while Burning out
  • **Assessment - Burning up while Burning out
  • Beating Burnout with Blockchain
  • **Assessment - Beating Burnout with Blockchain
  • Beating Burnout: Ensuring your innovation enhances clinical well being.
  • **Assessment - Beating Burnout: Ensuring your innovation enhances clinical well being.
  • Physician Burnout and Health Tech
  • **Assessment - Physician Burnout and Health Tech
  • Burn Out and Attrition
  • **Assessment - Burn Out and Attrition
  • Best Selling Author and Physician Mentor Discusses How To Combat Physician Burnout
  • Measuring Burnout to Improve Retention
  • The CEO's Guide to Ending Clinician Burnout NOW!
Physician Productivity
  • Robotic Process Automation: Healthcare Automation to reduce costs, increase productivity
  • Assessment -Robotic Process Automation: Healthcare Automation to reduce costs, increase productivity
Digital Health
  • Digital Health
  • **Assessment - Digital Health
  • Why Your Clinical Data Strategy Isn't Working (and how to fix it)
  • **Assessment -Why Your Clinical Data Strategy Isn't Working (and how to fix it)
  • Tackling the Full Medtech Stack as a Physician, From Medical Device to Software and Data
  • Assessment -Tackling the Full Medtech Stack as a Physician, From Medical Device to Software and Data
  • And Digital Health for All... With the help of behavioral economics
  • **Assessment - And Digital Health for All... With the help of behavioral economics
  • Digital Health and Virtual Care -The Innovation Path Ahead
  • **Assessments - Digital Health and Virtual Care -The Innovation Path Ahead
  • Trends in Digital Consumer Health (and Wellness) Technology
  • **Assessments - Trends in Digital Consumer Health (and Wellness) Technology
Equity & Inclusion
  • A New Paradigm in the Era of Digital Medicine: Equity and Inclusiveness in Research and Care
  • **Assessments - A New Paradigm in the Era of Digital Medicine
  • Driving health equity through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - a distinct plausibility
  • **Assessments - Driving health equity through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Precision Medicine
  • Next generation precision medicine: integrating precision care with precision research
  • Assessment - Next generation precision medicine: integrating precision care with precision research
Mental Health
  • Mental Health Global Crisis Future of Care Delivery
  • **Assessment - Mental Health Global Crisis Future of Care Delivery
AI in Medicine
  • AI in Medicine: Searching for signals in the noise
  • **Assessment - AI in Medicine: Searching for signals in the noise
  • Managing AI innovations to maximize success
  • **Assessment - Managing AI innovations to maximize success
  • ChatGPT, Future GPT and Healthcare: The good the bad and the ugly
  • **Assessment - ChatGPT, Future GPT and Healthcare: The good the bad and the ugly
  • AI in Healthcare: Lessons and Directions after the First Decade
  • **Assessment - AI in Healthcare: Lessons and Directions after the First Decade
  • The imagined fuels reality
  • **Assessment - The imagined fuels reality
  • Applying Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions to Clinical Practice Areas: Lessons Learned
  • **Assessment - Applying Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions to Clinical Practice Areas
  • Maximizing Physician Impact at the Intersection of Clinical Operations, AI
  • **Assessment - Maximizing Physician Impact at the Intersection of Clinical Operations, AI
  • Crossing the AI in healthcare implementation chasm
  • **Assessment - Crossing the AI in healthcare implementation chasm
  • Digital Therapeutics and AI
  • **Assessment - Digital Therapeutics and AI
  • Conversational AI and Digital Assistants
  • **Assessment - Conversational AI and Digital Assistants
  • Your AI was wrong! Positioning AI for successful adoption
  • **Assessment - Your AI was wrong! Positioning AI for successful adoption
  • Forecasts: From Accurate to Useful
  • **Assessment - Forecasts: From Accurate to Useful
  • Technology and Addressing Access and Bias in Pediatrics
  • **Assessment - Technology and Addressing Access and Bias in Pediatrics
  • Data Centric AI and Deploying a Polycystic Kidney Disease Model
  • **Assessment - Data Centric AI and Deploying a Polycystic Kidney Disease Model
  • AI Enabled Musculoskeletal Triage and Differential Diagnoses
  • **Assessment - AI Enabled Musculoskeletal Triage and Differential Diagnoses
Physician Advocacy
  • Innovate? Not in a Threat State
  • **Assessment - Innovate? Not in a Threat State

Frequently Asked Questions

  • This course is designed to benefit physicians who are considering a pivot toward entrpreneurism, or physicians who have already begun their journey but are seeking guidance anywhere along the path from vision setting to commercialization and beyond. While this course targets physicians, other types of providers, students, administrators, or anyone considering building a company would also benefit from taking the course.
  • The course takes roughly 40 hours.
  • The course is organized into 20-25 classes spanning themes related to Becoming a Physician Entrepreneur.. Under each theme, each class includes a video addressing a specific topic with follow-up comprehension questions to answer. Watching the video then completing the questions takes about 1 hour to complete.
  • You may pause your work at any time then go back to finish it later. Your work will save automatically.
  • No, the content for this course and associated certification was designed to be an “all-or-nothing” learning opportunity. You may take as many or as few of the classes offered as you like but will be required to pay the same base price of $X.
  • While CME credits can be awarded on a class-by-class basis, a certification grants you recognition and documentation of your expertise in a whole domain, in this case “Becoming a Physician Entrepreneur”.
  • Unfortunately not. We encourage you to carefully review the full course curriculum before deciding to proceed.

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