Medical Education Grand Innovation Challenge




The Medical Education Grand Innovation Challenge (MEGIC) is an NUS Medicine initiative to drive innovation in medical education and to create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. It aims to encourage educators, students and admin staff to identify gaps and opportunities to enhance teaching effectiveness, and to subsequently develop creative solutions.



Why MEGIC Matters

To train future-ready doctors who can meet the ever-changing healthcare needs of the 21st century, it is important that we continuously seek to raise the standard of medical education. Rapid scientific and technological advances, as well as the development of new models of care delivery, require medical education to evolve as we equip our students with relevant skills, while continuing to nurture core values.

MEGIC serves as a platform to solve the most pressing challenges in medical education and to raise the bar in terms of teaching effectiveness. It aims to encourage educators, students and admin staff to identify gaps and opportunities to enhance learning effectiveness, and subsequently develop creative solutions.


Competition Guidelines

Forming Your Team

Each team may comprise three or more individuals of any background, including academic staff, students, admin staff, and healthcare professionals.

Participants are encouraged to form teams that include members from different institutions and/or disciplines, to foster interprofessional collaborative practice and education.

A team must meet the following criteria:
  1. Each team must comprise at least three members. There is no maximum number.
  2. All team members are expected to contribute actively to the project. Medical students are highly encouraged to be part of the team.
  3. No change in team membership is permitted after the proposal has been submitted.
  4. Primary affiliation of one of the team members must be with the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUSMed). The disbursement of the seed grant can only be paid through those who are affiliated with NUSMed, in accordance with NUS Finance guidelines.

An individual participant may join a maximum of two teams to work on a maximum of two projects. The eligibility of participating teams with common team members will be subjected to further review and approval by the MEGIC Advisory Committee.


Download the guidelines document for further information (in PDF format).

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Submission of Proposal

The proposal template may be downloaded here.

Download Proposal Template

MEGIC competition guidelines need to be adhered to in order to ensure eligibility for participation.

Please email your proposals or any queries to megic@nus.edu.sg