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Arthrex, Clemson partner on skills training

Staff Report //April 23, 2019//

Arthrex, Clemson partner on skills training

Staff Report //April 23, 2019//

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Arthrex Inc. has launched a two-year pilot program with Clemson University to develop future employees skilled and knowledgeable in the manufacturing and marketing of surgical devices. The program includes an Arthrex gift of 10 scholarships of $7,500 each.

“Arthrex takes great pride in its commitment to education and we are pleased to help develop the next generation of highly skilled professionals like Arthrex Technology Consultants who work with orthopedic surgeons to provide trustworthy technical product support,” Reinhold Schmieding, Arthrex founder and president, said in a news release.

The program will include a series of courses, Arthrex internships and additional learning opportunities for rising third-year students majoring in bioengineering, marketing and health sciences departments.

Arthrex is expected to open this summer. (Photo/Teresa Cutlip)MKT 4950 Developing and Selling Medical Devices is the first course being offered in the series and will begin this fall, according to the release. Taught by Ryan Mullins in the College of Business, course material provides students an introduction to the health care industry with a focus on the development and marketing of surgical device innovations. Mullins was selected to develop the course as the Provost’s Inaugural Innovation Fellow, a program created to encourage faculty on campus to support corporate engagement efforts.

“Our collaboration with Arthrex helps us create a new type of focused course,” Mullins said in the release. “We will walk students through real case studies at Arthrex to understand how surgical devices get translated from marketable idea to surgeon or physician adoption. This helps us illustrate the challenges inherent to both the health care marketplace and marketing of new offerings, which is not taught anywhere else.”

Students who are enrolled in the course may apply for the scholarship and additional programs offered as part of the two-year series of courses, the release said. Those who would like to participate in the entire program will take Student Affairs’ Certified Student Leader Program in the spring and an internship with Arthrex in the summer. Students outside of the participating departments can also intern with Arthrex by working with their advisers and the career center.

“Arthrex is one of the university’s valuable strategic partners, and this opportunity to work together to create programming unique to Clemson speaks volumes about what the company thinks of our talented faculty and students,” Clemson President James P. Clements, said in the release. “This partnership is another example of Clemson’s ongoing commitment to the state of South Carolina, and I am grateful to Arthrex for its generous gift, which will enable our students to work with a world-class company to develop skills that are vital to the surgical device industry.”

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