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Solution Overview

Solution Name

Peri-Ed

One-line solution summary.

A clinical skills learning tool to impart and equip healthcare providers with relevant and up-to-date clinical skills.

What is your solution?

Through gamification and virtualization Peri-Ed seeks to make aquiring clinical skills more interactive and easily understandable. This is done through mock patients, reducing the possibilities of malpractice and patient injury caused by misdiagnosis and mismanagement due to a lack of experience.

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

Having witnessed malpractice due to the lack of clinical knowledge and experience by health practitioners. This implores us more to want to better both the healthcare practitioner who, in turn, ensures better healthcare delivery to patients.

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Our target population is healthcare professionals, specifically clinicians. Currently, most of the solutions available to reduce malpractice are knowledge-based alone, but as research has shown, imparting knowledge alone is not enough to assure competence. Our solution seeks to impart with knowledge the opportunity for this population to apply the knowledge they have learned without causing actual harm to real-life patients.

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

We have been able to engage with potential users (medical interns, and students) and identify the pain points. Most students and interns complain of the lack of adequate feedback and opportunities during their training and practice, respectively. With our MVP that we shared with a few selected medical students, we have seen that there is a challenge in confidence when it comes to applying what students have learned in the classroom to the relevant clinical skills... Simply put, connecting 1 to 2 to get 3 is a challenge.

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Improving learning opportunities and outcomes for learners across their lifetimes, from early childhood on (Learning)

Our solution's stage of development:

Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

To date, we have been able to identify the pain points of our potential users and have managed to engineer a minimum viable product that users can interact with. With the feedback that we got from the focus group, we are currently working on having a minimum viable business product that we can launch with.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Nairobi, Kenya

Team Lead:

Kolah Eugene James