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So good evening. Um We're the mind the bleep alternative prayers team. Um I think we're ready to begin really. Um So essentially a little bit about the alternative prayers. Um There's a lot of interest in essentially people looking at things to do outside of medicine. Um And so the alternative career is sort of a new thing that we've that's been started to try and give some more information on what sort of opportunities and what things are out there. So we hope this is our first sort of webinar that we're doing. So we hope that it's useful. Um I'll hand it over to one of our, one of the team member, Porsche. Tell her. Yes, I'm Porsche. I'm one of the team members for the alternative career, the team or mindedly. And today our topic will be on health tech and I'll just hand it over to Doctor Aaron Smith and he would introduce himself and we can get started. Thank you. Thank you so much, Portia. And it's a real delight to get to speak to you all today. Uh So my name is Aeron. So I'm Chief Medical Officer of a company called A I body um and I'm just gonna share my screen just so I can get the slides up and we can get going. Uh What I hope to do today is to um really just to introduce you to uh healthcare tech as a whole. Um introduce you to uh my personal journey of how I got into healthcare tech from being a doctor. Um and talk a little bit about, you know, some of the opportunities um and some of the roles I'm gonna get you to do some of the work um as well. So, um I hope to get some, some input from, from you guys um along the way and lastly, we'll talk a little bit about how to actually get into healthcare tech and all of the things that I might might suggest. So please ask some questions. Um There will be obviously time at the end. I hope to speak to maybe about 30 minutes or so. Um And then we'll have plenty of time for questions and answers uh at the end. So I'm just gonna share my screen and uh you just let me know when you can see that. Oh my one second. Can you see my screen? Y yes, we can. Perfect. Great. Let's get started. Um So, um as I said, uh my name's there and I'm the chief medical officer at the I Body. Uh So we're a company that's based in digital physiology. Um So we have been um creating a digital PP engine for the last 10 years and we've been doing things within the clinical education space, but also in clinical medicine. Um And we'll talk a little bit about how I got into this journey. But first off, what I'd love to be able to do actually is just to get a bit of sense of who you are. Um and where you're coming from. So that helps me just to tailor the talk a little bit. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna ask you to try and go to men.com. Um, and I want you to input the code that you see on the screen and we'll see if this, this works. Um, so you should see um on the screen, er, um a question that we can start to answer. So let me know when you can do it, you should see the code on the screen. Hopefully there shouldn't be any problems if you just go to me.com and er, you should be able to get onto it. Uh, perfect some people in already. So, yeah, so we'll give this just a couple of seconds. Um mm. And I do apologize if uh you're not represented in the categories. Um, I could have put lots and lots and lots but uh useful to, to see the uh the split. Ok. Seeing quite a lot of foundation doctors and if you want to, to just see, you know, where you're at, at the moment in the chat box. I'm happy to scroll through that as we, we get to the question and answer section. All right. Ok. Let's move on. Um, just for pressing of time. So the last thing, um, uh, I want to do is actually just to get a better understanding about what you're looking to get out of this talk yourselves. So, um, I've put this up here. I am currently looking to dot dot dot But if you want to just to type something very quickly, um and then just submit it and it just gives me an idea of uh what you're looking to get out of this and hopefully I can satisfy those, those answers and topics. Yep. Ok. Career shift. Yep. So we'll definitely be covering some of that. Yup. Leave medicine. Ok. Yep. I see lots of switching and career shifting. Yeah. Yeah. Work-life balance. Yup. Ok. Yep. Breaking into the industry, innovation and clinical work. Yeah, we'll cover some of this. Definitely. All right, perfect. Yes. So, um yeah, seeing a lot of um obviously trying to transition to the industry in a healthcare tech job. We'll definitely explore some of that and again, explore on the alternatives. Yeah, so we'll, we'll cover all these different things. Perfect. Um So we'll do, I'm gonna do a little bit more in, in mentee in a second, but we're just gonna go back to the slide. Um So what I'm gonna do now is just maybe just to tell you just a little bit my personal journey uh through medicine to healthcare tech. Um And then to give you, I guess, maybe an understanding of that first before we get into perhaps some of the work that I think might if you look into to understand, you know, how to transition into healthcare tech world, some of the things that I think are useful to think about um as you go along that journey. Um So just to give you an understanding of where I've come from. So, um I first graduated in 2013 and, you know, had done the, the usual track within the NHS. So I trained in, in Aberdeen and actually spent most of my clinical career in, in Aberdeen. Um So I went through the FY track and CMT. Um and it was probably around that point in my time that I was thinking, you know, yes, I like the clinical um the work. Um but there was always, I felt something a bit missing. Um you know, I'd go through departments and departments and nothing really ever kind of got the spark I think in my fy, for example, I only did one internal medicine um job I knew I wanted to do CMT and it was really around about that time during like CMT two that I'd really kind of started to think about. Well, you know, what else was I looking to get out of this career. Um And, you know, haven't spoken to a lot of colleagues, they perhaps weren't necessarily so much in that mind state at that time. And so I'd taken a, a very fortunate position to become a locum geriatric ST three. And again, to get my feet wet, I'd always been, you know, generalist and mindset when it came to medicine, I wasn't necessarily sparking to do one exact specialty. Um, and so geriatrics felt like a really good fit at the time. Um, but I think what came with that was for me, just another, the kind of the same kind of feelings that I'd had in my previous part of the career. And just again, a general feeling of, you know, something was missing some innovation, um, you know, something to give the spark alive a little bit uh for the day to day of, you know, clinical work. And, you know, I think what I guess I'm trying to say is in terms of my personal journey that I've prototype my way really to where I've got to today. Um, and so, you know, I didn't have this, any of this figured out, um, when I, I've ended up at the way I am now. And so just about this time, um, I'd moved to, to Edinburgh, uh, to do a general medical job. Um, and really, I thought, well, maybe it's the, the different location, um, and a different, er, slant on medicine might do the trick. But again, for me, it was very much, most of the same, uh, that I'd done in my previous parts of my career. And so it was at this stage that I thought, well, you know, I'd always really loved teaching but never really did any formal um, er, experience of this. So I'd spent some time the University of Edinburgh. So I was on the MSC for internal medicine, which some of you may actually know. Um, so I was a course lead for two of the second year master's courses, um teaching postgraduate doctors, um mostly M RCP type content um around the curriculum. And to that point really that I'd always been kind of technologically minded even as a young child. Um, so II had a, a dab hand in, in programming at a younger age but never really um, did much with it. Um, and at this stage because I had a little bit of time in education, um, it was a bit of a, a breath um from the clinical work. Um, it allowed me to kind of.