CHEST 2019 marked the inaugural FISH Bowl competition for attendees. Inspired by Shark Tank, our kinder, gentler, yet still competitive and cutting-edge FISH Bowl (Furthering Innovation and Science for Health) featured CHEST members disrupting our beliefs about how clinical care and education are performed. As health-care providers, they presented innovative ideas pertaining to education and clinical disease for pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Six finalists were chosen from dozens of submissions, and three emerged winners! In this new Meet the FISH Bowl Finalists series, CHEST introduces you to many of them – including Education Category Finalist Dr. Bhavani.
Dr. Siva Bhavani
Name: Siva Bhavani
Institution: University of Chicago
Position: Pulmonary Critical Care Fellow
Title: Quizomics
Brief summary: Quizomics is a cutting-edge mobile app that hosts trivia competitions for medical conferences. Quizomics is unlike any medical trivia competition you have ever seen, because the Quizomics app can host 20,000 medical professionals simultaneously competing in the world’s largest medical trivia competition. Physicians compete among thousands of peers in their respective specialties to prepare for boards, obtain CME, and gain recognition in their fields as they fight their way to the top of the leaderboard!
1. What inspired your innovation? The average person checks their phone every 12 minutes, and this is no different at medical conferences. Whether you are in line for coffee, looking around at posters, or listening to a lecture - very little time passes before you are again checking your phone. The natural engagement we have with our phones can be leveraged for educational purposes by introducing gamified medical education platforms like Quizomics. I was inspired because the future of the medical conference demands digital engagement, gamified education, and large-scale social interaction. There is currently no platform that offers these services to prepare medical conferences for the digital education revolution that is coming.
2. Who do you think can benefit most from it, and why? The highest benefit is going to be to the physicians who are tired of the traditional CME options. Quizomics provides a high quality entertaining and educational platform for physicians to get CME while engaging and interacting with their peers. Further, physicians preparing for boards will find Quizomics an engaging alternative to the traditional textbooks. Finally, medical conferences will find that Quizomics can increase engagement, education, and attendance.
3. What do you see as challenges to your innovation gaining widespread acceptance? How can they be overcome? Content creation (trivia questions and explanations) is the biggest challenge to Quizomics. To overcome this, we plan to partner with tech-forward medical organizations that have high quality question banks in order to provide physicians with top-notch gamified education.
4. Why was it meaningful for you to emerge as a finalist in FISH Bowl 2019? FISH Bowl was an amazing opportunity to present Quizomics to others in the pulmonary/critical care specialty. Further, it was an opportunity to get direct feedback from leading educators in the field, and much of the resulting feedback has been incorporated into Quizomics.
5. What future do you envision for your innovation beyond FISH Bowl 2019? Quizomics is launching at a national neurosurgery board review course this winter. Following this pilot launch, Quizomics is scheduled for roll-out at Chicago area internal medicine residency programs through the summer of 2020. You can expect to see Quizomics at national conferences by 2021!