Writing

Premed-written breakdowns on where AI and medicine actually meet, no jargon required.

Our first articles are still in the works. Here's the lineup we're writing toward:

What "AI in Medicine" Actually Means Right Now

Cutting through the hype to explain what's actually deployed in hospitals today versus what's still research.

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Inside Our Sickle Cell Project: A Build Log

An honest look at what's working, what isn't, and what we've had to rebuild on the detection model.

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How to Start Learning AI as a Premed Student

The actual path our members took to get useful at this, not a generic "learn to code" list.

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Bias in Blood: What Sickle Cell Data Teaches Us About Representation in Medical AI

Sickle cell disproportionately affects populations that are historically underrepresented in medical datasets. We break down why that matters for anyone building a screening model, including us.

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Reading a Confusion Matrix Like a Clinician, Not Just an Engineer

Sensitivity and specificity mean something very different in a hospital than they do in a machine learning paper. A guide for premed students evaluating model performance.

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FDA Clearance 101: What "AI-Cleared Medical Device" Actually Means

A plain-language walkthrough of the regulatory pathway every clinical AI tool, including ours eventually, has to go through before it touches a real patient.

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Why Most AI Health Apps Never Make It Past a Pilot

It's rarely the model that kills a clinical AI project. It's workflow integration, liability, and trust. What that means for student-built tools like ours.

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What We Got Wrong in Our First Model Iteration

A postmortem on our earliest approach to sickle cell detection, what didn't generalize, and why we rebuilt it instead of patching it.

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The Research Paper Premed Students Wish They'd Started Sooner

Why publishing early, even something small, matters more for med school applications and your own thinking than waiting until you feel "ready."

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