Medical app can improve doctors' skills

Consultants and information technology experts in Belfast have developed a mobile app which can pinpoint potentially life-threatening gaps in doctors’ knowledge and help them improve their skills in that area.

The app, which has already attracted users worldwide, generates tests which identify strengths and weaknesses in the user’s knowledge. It then focuses on the weaknesses providing tutorials on those aspects before generating further tests.

According to Tom Lynch, one of the founders of Experior, the app is part of a wider system which could be used by anybody with a speciality, even outside medicine, who wants to improve knowledge of their area.