Inspiration ,,
As we all know, India is a huge country with a large population. With this comes many challenges. One such challenges is faced by the medical students in this country. In India the system is after grade 12 you have MBBS for five and a half years after which you compete to go into residency which here is called postgraduation (pg). Though there are many reputable coaching institutes for pg point of view, there is a significant gap in medical education from learning medicine from the first principles. Also there is a significant gap in understanding research in medicine. I am going to be a first year medical student this year, and with this I am also going to be a first generation doctor in my family. When i researched i found out that in medical colleges, in many parts of India, is through conventional methods that is reading powerpoint presentations, and so on and so forth. The problem with the pg coaching institutes are that they are pg focussed with limited depth. Also there are no simulation or modules guiding the students or preparing the students for real world scenarios. Though there are many platforms out there preparing the students or guiding the students for research, they are all scattered with no proper roadmap. Also in many cases the when the students learn from youtube, many times the content is not worth the time and more often at the end of the video they are pitched a research course that they have to take. So my idea was to combine everything which a medical student need to be at one place. Whether it is the latest research paper or a new biotech firm which just received funding , I want it to be the go to place for a medical student. This was the reason I want to build this.
What it does
MedLearn , is a platform where a medical student study their whole of anatomy , physiology or forensic medicine in audio, video and text format, from the first principles. I am pretty sure that there are many students like me who want to know about the whys and the whats rather following the ppt blindly and rote learning even if i don't understand certain things, just to pass the examinations. Many of us might agree that we remember things when we know the why and what about a thing, it helps us in deeply understanding the topic, which is a win for students from learning and clinics point of view. The quizzes are there to test you, subject wise, chapter wise and topic wise, I wish to integrate AI at a later stage for adaptive quizzing. The simulations can prepare student for clinics even if the patient load is not enough in a hospital or when a person is absent from college during a critical period of learning. The peer learning and progress pages are there to help students remain in their momentum. I am actively thinking of ways to further refine the dashboard. The research dashboard features learning modules for starters, latest research papers from around the world. Actively trying to incorporate the news section for latest news from the biotech or the pharma sector to help students and professionals be updated with the healthcare news.
How we built it,
I built it using bolt, integrated it using supabase and deployed to netlify, pushed my project to github ( I have just started in tech world so using these simple tools was and is very daunting to me till now)
Challenges we ran into
The main challenge that i ran into was developing that one single prompt which could help us develop a fully fledged platform, also all these tech stacks were new to me , though i had experience with coding but never did i built a frontend, was not aware how database or backend work and had zero knowledge about deployment , but here i was out developing a fully fledged platform.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I don't think i am proud of anything but i am glad that i have reached a certain level in accomplishing my goals for the project.
What we learned
I learned a ton of things from this project. From trying to build that one fine prompt to supabase to netlify , I learned many things , things got overwhelmed for me , i sometimes felt lost. Thought about my competitors, got intimidated, learned how to be cool and focus on the project. I also got an important lesson that Agent AI has still a way to go till they can completely replace developers. The amount of bugs in software which is built using agentic ai is immense and need human intervention.
What's next for MedLearn
I sincerely want to develop it into a fully fledged platform while keeping the costs low
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