identifying the challenge
There's a lack of online tools for pediatric plastic and oral surgery, making it hard for medical students and upcoming professionals to find information.
This website is the first-ever plastic and oral surgery educational website.
Creating this site will become a useful guidebook for medical students and residents to help prepare them for surgeries
How might we assist medical students studying pediatric surgery prepare for exams and procedures?
project goals
Reduce the time it takes to research information about specific surgical procedures medical students and residents have to perform
Create an educational website that can be easily accessed for medical students and residents
research insights
Research Goal 1: Understand what current medical students use to review procedures and what they like & dislike about the educational tools
Research Goal 2: Understand our users’ typical learning journey within their workflow; taking in, looking up, and organizing medical information
What challenges do medical students face when studying?
Learning style
78% of respondents were visual learners, while only 11% preferred to read/write to digest information.
78% of respondents were visual learners, while only 11% preferred to read/write to digest information.
Conditions vs. procedures
64% of respondents stated that it is challenging to find resources with both medical conditions and procedures.
64% of respondents stated that it is challenging to find resources with both medical conditions and procedures.
Reason for studying
78% of responses said they needed to prepare for OR (operating room) cases and procedures.
78% of responses said they needed to prepare for OR (operating room) cases and procedures.
Empathy map summary: understanding our users to allow the website to highlight user motivations and resolve pain points.
solidifying project goal
Design an educational website that helps medical students find and study relevant pediatric information more efficiently and effectively.
Design solution
Ideating ways to display medical conditions and procedures on the homepage.
Option A: filtering system to view both conditions and procedures
Option B: displaying conditions and including procedures inside the cards
Testing results
Mouse heatmap: How long was the cursor at some point?
A: with filtering system
B: variant, without filtering system
Click heatmap: Where did the users click?
A: with filtering system
B: variant, without filtering system
