Medventions Intern (SRI) - Physical Sciences - Temporary Full-time 2025-15200

One of Canada's Top 10 Research Hospitals, Sunnybrook Research Institute is developing innovations in care for the more than 1.3 million patients the hospital cares for annually.

Sunnybrook Research Institute is the research enterprise of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. Research spans three Toronto-based campuses, eight programs and three scientific platforms. Our main aims are to understand and prevent disease, and to develop treatments that enhance and extend life. Our vision is to invent the future of health care. Each year, we conduct about $100 million in research across 500,000 square feet, including in the world’s first Centre for Research in Image-Guided Therapeutics.

Build the Future of Health Care from the Frontlines

Are you passionate about solving real-world challenges in health care through innovation? The Medventions Internship Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre offers aspiring innovators a unique opportunity to work on high-impact medical technology projects embedded within clinical environments.

About Medventions

Medventions is a high-intensity, hospital-based innovation program hosted by Sunnybrook Research Institute. Over four months, interdisciplinary teams of students and early-career professionals collaborate with leading clinicians, researchers, and industry mentors to identify unmet clinical needs, generate novel ideas, and develop early-stage prototypes that aim to transform patient care.

Summary of Duties:

[Interventional Cardiology Track

Work alongside cardiologists in Sunnybrook’s state-of-the-art Schulich Heart Program, gaining exposure to the latest in image-guided cardiovascular care.
Focus areas include (but are not limited to):

• Innovations in image-guided interventional cardiology procedures (e.g., transcatheter valve therapies, complex coronary interventions)
• EP opportunities, including technologies supporting cardiac device implantation and ablation
• Technologies enabling structural and coronary interventions, such as tools for transcatheter, robotic, or hybrid procedures
• Peri-procedural planning and support tools (e.g., imaging fusion, simulation, and intra-procedural guidance)
• AI, wearables, robotics, and automation to enhance workflow efficiency and clinical decision-making

Participants will either:

• Identify new clinical problems through direct observation and clinical immersions, or
• Work on pre-validated, high-priority clinical needs already identified by Sunnybrook physicians.

Program Structure

The internship spans three immersive phases:

1. Clinical Immersion & Needs Identification
2. Ideation & Concept Development
3. Prototyping & Early Validation

Interns will work in interdisciplinary teams with support from clinical, engineering, and business mentors.

Who Should Apply

We’re seeking motivated individuals who are:

• Curious, creative, and critical thinkers
• Passionate about transforming healthcare through innovation
• Entrepreneurial and action-oriented
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-stakes environments
• Effective collaborators with strong communication skills

Preferred backgrounds: Medicine, Biomedical or Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Design, or related fields.

What You’ll Gain

• Exposure to real-world clinical challenges
• Mentorship from leading experts in medicine and technology
• Hands-on experience developing impactful health innovations
• A launchpad for careers in medtech innovation, clinical entrepreneurship, or translational research

Qualifications:

– Entrepreneurial mindset: action and detail oriented, analytical, sees problems as opportunities, comfortable with ambiguity, self-learner with strong business acumen.

– Proven ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.

– Demonstrated excellence in problem-solving, decision making, and critical thinking.

– Highly motivated individual with the ability to work under pressure.

– Strong interest in innovation and change across health care, design thinking, entrepreneurship and creativity.

– Proven excellent interpersonal skills and effective oral/written communication skills.

– Background/experience in life sciences, health, engineering and/or business is required.

– Comfort with exposure to surgical procedures, medical environments, and potentially graphic clinical situations.