SmashMedicine

x11 growth during Covid-19

SmashMedicine’s award-winning platform made available in European universities

“We're improving the efficiency and efficacy of remote education”

edical students in six major European universities, including the University of Oxford, and members of the Spanish Council for Medical students were able to continue studying effectively from home during the pandemic by accessing SmashMedicine’s research-backed EdTech platform free of charge. The award-winning platform has been proven to improve student performance by up to 15%. It allows students, teachers and professionals to co-create educational content interactively and remotely – in particular through crowd-sourcing the wide range of clinically-based questions that help students develop diagnostic skills. The concept is sociable and includes a ‘gamification’ element that makes studying Medicine fun. The enforced move to online education is likely to develop further as an industry norm, say the team behind SmashMedicine, but without the necessary tools, students and faculties will struggle, leading to higher student and staff attrition. Engaging and thoughtful platforms such as this will play an important role in ensuring the continued supply of future medical professionals. In 2020, with support from the Foundry, additional partnerships have been established with EIT Health, Cancer Research UK, Oxford University Hospitals network (the Hill), and DEX Innovation Centre. Five additional top-tier medical school pilots have been agreed for early 2021. Over the last six months, SmashMedicine has had 11x user growth and in September 2020 alone, over 2500 unique pieces of student generated questions and model answers were produced on the platform at one institution. Smash has raised £150,000 and for their work were awarded a University of Oxford's Vice Chancellor’s Education Award 2020, and reached the final of Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards - nominated by the Foundry.