The Dream Team

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Inspiration

We were inspired by local issues that provided us a lead into researching some similar problems that exist among impoverished demographics. After seeing consequences of the lack of training doctors are receiving and lack of certified doctors, we decided to take on this project. We were able to empathize with the patients and aspiring future doctors of Benin, which is what motivated us to embed the different features into our app.

What it does

Our Networking Doctors app allows young doctors in Benin who do not receive proper medical training to contact with medical professors with PhDs from different countries. Additionally, patients from Benin have to attend their appointments with a group of other patients, due to a lack of doctors, which reduces patient privacy. Therefore, the after-hour virtual meetings allows patients to make appointments with doctors in Benin or from another country so they can interact one-on-one and get a specific diagnoses according to their own symptoms.

How I built it

We built our app using the Marvel platform that helped us to efficiently develop a prototype. We had to do research on the problems doctors and patients are dealing with due to the issue we were exploring.

Challenges I ran into

It is was difficult to find more perspectives on this issue from other doctors or patients. Another challenge was recording our pitch on Canva because as group members we were communicating through google meets, thus we had to record where one person was recording and the others would speak through the google meet. At the end, however, we were able to resolve our problem and successfully recorded our pitch.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We are proud of our mock-up of the app of Marvel because we believe that we added all the features of our app, as well as made it just how we imagined it to be. Also, we were able to identify our competitors and clearly distinguish our app from theirs in order to make it of more value. Similarly, we are proud of the way our prototype displays the information and is easy for the user to use.

What I learned

Through this experience we got to learn the importance of having many doctors available as otherwise it can be fatal for the patients and while suffering from something preventable they could die if enough doctors are not available to help them. We also learned how an app makes profit, as well as that it can be very expensive to develop an app.

What's next for The Dream Team

In the future we intend to participate in more hackathons because it allows us to enlighten our perspective some global issues happening around the world. We were able to gain a global perspective and are able to use this information even at school or are able to pass this new information to other students.

Built With

• marvel