{"id":25711,"date":"2020-03-21T14:55:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T06:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/?post_type=newsletters&p=10730"},"modified":"2022-04-28T19:25:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T19:25:54","slug":"medical-grand-challenge-2019","status":"publish","type":"newsletters","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/newsletters\/issue33\/dossier\/medical-grand-challenge-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Grand Challenge 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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Students from shortlisted teams presenting their projects to the judges<\/i><\/p>\n

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Participating students explaining their idea and prototype to Prof Chng Wee Joo, Vice-Dean of Research<\/i><\/p>\n

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Students from shortlisted teams presenting their projects to the judges<\/i><\/p>\n

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Medical Grand Challenge 2019<\/p>\n

Organised by NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine\u2019s Centre for Medical Education, the Medical Grand Challenge (MGC) started in 2017 to nurture creativity while encouraging NUS Medicine undergraduates to cultivate an inquiring and entrepreneurial mind. At the same time, the multi-disciplinary nature of the competition draws students from different faculties and fosters collaborative teamwork.<\/p>\n

In 2019, students from various NUS faculties\u2014 Medicine, Business, Computing, Engineering and Law\u2014and their counterparts from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Yale-NUS, presented innovative solutions to unmet healthcare challenges they have identified. Over the past year, these students went through interdisciplinary boot camps to develop and refine their proposed solutions and prototypes, conceived to solve existing healthcare problems.<\/p>\n

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Besides being professionally competent, doctors also need to be innovative to keep refreshing and improving the healthcare tools we have at our disposal. Hence, we provide students with platforms that hone problem-solving skills, to expand their modes of thinking and perspectives. Innovative thinking and collaborative team work are part of our training at NUS Medicine, alongside the academic rigour and soft skills training that students go through.<\/p>\n

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– Prof Chong Yap Seng<\/strong>
Dean, NUS Medicine<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Winners of MGC 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Team comprising students from NUS Medicine, Law, and Engineering<\/i><\/p>\n

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First Prize Winners: Kenn<\/p>\n

\u201cVarious ailments restricting hand functions affect our ageing population, particularly those that cause weakened grip strength and finger dexterity e.g. stroke, hand arthritis. Kenn is a modular hand splint with the novel approach of serving multiple functions in one, with no size restriction on writing tools that can be attached on the splint.\u201d<\/p>\n


Team comprising students from NUS Medicine, Engineering, and Information Systems \u2013 Computing<\/i><\/p>\n

Second Prize Winners: Project 21<\/p>\n

\u201cFalls are a serious hazard for the elderly, and pose problems for healthcare stakeholders. Project21 is a wearable hardware tool that assesses the elderly early for fall risks and identifies them for early intervention. The tool\u2019s features include gait tracking and control via a mobile app.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Team comprising students from NUS Medicine, NTU Electrical Engineering, and Business & Accountancy<\/i><\/p>\n

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Third Prize Winners: P1 Probe<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a prevalence of pressure ulcers and limited reliability in the existing ways we identify high- risk patients. PI Probe is a non-invasive, portable probe to detect tissue damage before visible skin changes using impedance spectroscopy, with an integrated data interface.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n