Standing Committee

SCOTI

Technology & Innovation

Webinars, a video podcast, lab tours, competitions and industry visits in medical technology, AI and health innovation.

Type
Standing committee
Projects on record
11
Fields of work
11
Officers
NOTI · dNOTI
Contact
noti@ifmsa-thailand.org

What it works on

  • Artificial intelligence in medicine and in medical education
  • Medical technology and health innovation generally
  • Biomedical engineering and medical device development
  • Digital health and health informatics (national health apps, telemedicine, health data)
  • Biosensors, wearables and IoT in healthcare
  • Medical robotics and rehabilitation technology
  • Health-tech entrepreneurship and startups
  • Research exposure and lab literacy for medical students
  • AI ethics, limitations and appropriate clinical use
  • Technology in mental health care
  • Technology in critical care and emergency medicine

How it works

  • Online webinar series with invited Thai clinician and engineer speakers (Zoom, recorded and published to YouTube)
  • Video podcast production: studio-recorded interview series with health-tech founders and clinicians, published on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok
  • Laboratory and research-site excursions (Tech Tour) at university engineering and biomedical departments
  • National student competitions, video challenge with public voting and a live pitching final; AI-assisted medical question-answering contests
  • Debates on technology and medicine, run jointly with other standing committees
  • On-campus talk sessions at medical schools (AI Talk / TED-style formats)
  • Industry internship placements for medical students
  • Social-media science communication (innovation newsletters, reels, quote posts, highlight clips)
  • Open recruitment, with interviews
  • Pre-event capacity-building workshops to prepare participants before site visits
Who leads it

NOTI — National Officer on Technology and Innovation, with a deputy (dNOTI)

noti@ifmsa-thailand.org
On the record

11 projects on record.

  1. AI Roadshow

    2023/24 (Feb–Aug 2024)

    A multi-university AI-in-medicine tour with PreceptorAI: a webinar, AI Talk at Siriraj and Curacode at Thammasat; a live podcast at Khon Kaen was planned.

  2. Curacode / AInovators Video Challenge

    2024

    Teams made videos of up to 5 minutes on PreceptorAI, judged on accuracy, production and ethics. Ten finalists pitched live at Thammasat Rangsit on 14 July 2024.

  3. AI Talk (AI Roadshow @ Siriraj)

    2024

    A talk at Siriraj with PreceptorAI faculty: 'From Classroom to Clinic: The AI-Powered Leap in Medical Education'.

  4. SCOTI Webinar — 'A Decade of Mental Health and Innovation'

    11 May 2024

    Free Zoom webinar with an invited expert on a decade of technology in mental health care. Recording on YouTube.

  5. SCOTI Webinar — 'Advances in ECMO for General Practice'

    28 May 2024

    Zoom webinar on ECMO for non-specialists with a paediatric critical-care lecturer. Recording on YouTube.

  6. SCOTI Webinar — 'The Development of Tools, Personnel, and Networks in Emergency Medicine Treatment'

    June 2024

    Webinar with an emergency-medicine professor on tools, workforce and networks. Recording published 26 June 2024.

  7. SCOTI Podcast (Season 1)

    2024

    Six episodes with seven Thai health-tech figures, from a biosensor startup to the 'Mor Prom' app, made by a student crew. On YouTube from 15 June 2024.

  8. SCOTI Tech Tour: Research & Lab Excursions — Biomedical Engineering, Mahidol University

    26 July 2024

    Five biomedical engineering labs at Mahidol University in one day, after a two-day online prep workshop. All 25 respondents would attend again.

  9. SCOTI Tech Tour — Chulalongkorn and third site

    planned Aug/Oct 2024

    Advertised stops at Chulalongkorn (August) and a third venue (October). No record that they ran.

  10. Innovative Internship

    2024

    A three-day industry internship at a major Thai company (PTT Oil and Retail Business named), by application and interview.

  11. Med Inno Newsletter

    2023/24

    Six social-media posts, each on a different medical innovation.

Where SCOTI posts

Instagram@scoti_thailand TikTok@scoti_thailand YouTube@SCOTI.IFMSA.Thailand

Worth knowing

  • SCOTI is a Thailand-specific standing committee. Its own induction minutes (17 Dec 2023) record the lineage as TMSIC, then SOTI, then SCOTI.
  • Legacy projects named in those minutes as pre-2023/24 SCOTI/SOTI work: the Med Innovation Newsletter, a Research Tour, webinars, and 'Hack Med x SOTI', a hackathon that was explicitly not continued in 2023/24.
  • The 2023/24 term ran as five named project lines, AI Roadshow, SCOTI Podcast, SCOTI Webinar, SCOTI Tech Tour, Innovative Internship. Supported by admin, PR, finance and HR teams.
  • AI Roadshow's project proposal set a budget of 108,150 THB, named PreceptorAI as the external partner organisation and ThaiHealth (สสส., Thai Health Promotion Foundation) as funder, and mapped the project to UN SDGs 3, 4 and 9.
  • The combined SCOTI Webinar and Podcast proposal carried a budget of 30,800 THB.
  • The AI Roadshow proposal set measurable targets: at least 100 medical students reached across five months, participants from at least 3 institutions, minimum 20 attendees per event, and pre/post knowledge tests to measure learning gain.

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