Background
Medical education is very similar in learning a language in that it takes repetition of concepts over years. Many medical professionals use books, question banks, and journals to keep from losing their knowledge. This situation begs for an app that can help medical students and professionals learn and keep the skills they need.
Executive Summary
An obvious solution to the described problem is a mobile app. Something like this should be tailored to each user in a way that allows a specific medical professional to choose what they should and shouldn’t be quizzed on. The system should be able to notify a user when they might be getting rusty on a subject. A key feature of the app would be to allow users to compare themselves to others in the same field. Leaderboards on subjects that can be filtered by medical field, age, and level of expertise are some features that would be desireable. To build on the competitive aspect, a game where two medical professionals could be matched up and directly compete in a quiz would be interesting.
Viability Analysis
The difficulty in this system will be building a database of questions that can be used by all kinds of medical professionals. Manually building this could in itself take months. Other options for building a database of questions could be setting up a script that scrapes online journals and question banks for questions or even partnering with medical professionals from different disciplines to help generate questions that can be put in the database. Questions could even be crowdsourced and the app could be user driven to take the necessity of medical knowledge out of the realm of the programmers.
Risks and Rewards
There are not too many risks involved in this project’s development that I can foresee. Building a database of questions from so many different medical disciplines that doesn’t grow incredibly large might be an issue. Because medical professionals deal with people’s lives, this app would also have to have correct answers to relevant questions. If the app was delivered well and had accurate questions though, the reward could be high. This app could be used by all medical professionals, and thus could have a big user base.
Closing
The large field of medicine is one that all doctors have to learn. This learning is repetitive and has be permanent. This project is to build an app that can help students learn and help professionals keep their knowledge fresh. The risks for this project are not much. The software would be nothing revolutionary and there are already questions that can be found online to use. The rewards on the other hand are apparent. A built in user base comes with the territory of building an app for medical professionals. Additionally, this project has good potential to be monetized.
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