[CMRAD]
Seminar Feature
To streamline knowledge assessment within training sessions, making education more engaging and efficient while reducing manual workload for educators.
Seminar Feature
Collective Minds connects radiology professionals through a global, cloud-based platform, built for sharing DICOM cases, collaborating faster, and improving patient outcomes. But when I started looking closely at how people teach with those cases, I noticed the content was there, the expertise was there but the teaching experience still felt stitched together.
Seminar Feature
Running a great case-based seminar sounds simple, pick some cases, walk the audience through the reasoning, and discuss decisions together. But once I mapped the end-to-end teaching workflow, it became clear why it’s so hard to do well both inside a busy clinical day and on our platform: radiologists are extremelytime-poor, seminar setup is fragmented across tools, and 'finding interesting cases' is tedious.
Time Constraint
Time is the main constraint.
Preparing a session competes with clinical workload, so anything that isn’t fast, reusable, and low-friction tends to get deprioritised.
Tool Juggling
Teaching is tool-fragmented.
A 'teaching session/seminar' often means juggling multiple tools...cases in one place, slides in another, polling somewhere else, and attendance/links in email.
Participation
Participation should be frictionless.
If joining, answering polls, or viewing content requires extra logins, links, or switching devices, fewer people participate and quieter learners disappear first.
The Right Case
Finding the right case is challenging.
Educators don’t want 'any case' they need teachable cases (clear learning objective, the right level of difficulty, interesting). Limited filtering make discovery and reuse tedious on Collective Minds.
Case Based Teaching
'Case-based' is hard to orchestrate live.
Educators want learners to reason step-by-step, not jump to the answer, yet it’s easy to accidentally reveal the report/diagnosis too early.
Research Findings
Through interviews, surveys, events and focus groups
Consultant Radiologist
Uppsala University Hospital
“If it takes more than 20 minutes to set up, it just won’t happen. Clinic runs over, reporting piles up, and teaching is the first thing to get squeezed.”
Radiology Educator
Leeds University Hospital
“Easy teaching sessions turns into four tabs, different logins, 2 devices and a literal prayer that the Hospital WiFi holds. Which it usually doesn't (laughs)”
Neuroradiologist
UCL Hospital
“The moment you ask people to switch to their phone, or log in again half the room drops out. And it’s always the quieter ones you most want to hear from.”
Radiologist
LMU Klinikum
“I’m not looking for random cases, I’m looking for the right case. Something teachable, with a clear point. With Collective Minds it's missionary”
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Figuring out what to build
After the research, the next challenge was focus. 'Education' is a big space inside Collective Minds, and a dozen pain points surfaced across educators, residents, and IT teams. To design something shippable and valuable, we needed to align on one primary problem to solve first, the one that would unlock the most impact with the least friction.
Problem Statement
Radiology educators struggle to run structured, case-based seminars because preparing and delivering a session requires switching between multiple tools and manually controlling what learners see. In a busy clinical day, this friction makes teaching difficult to repeat.
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Hypothesis
If we introduce a Seminar Feature that integrates our DICOM viewer with presentation tools and interactive polling, we will reduce teaching session prep time by 50% and increase student engagement by 30%, as educators and learners will no longer need to juggle 3-4 separate tools.
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Ideation
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With the scope and hypothesis set, I moved into low- to mid-fidelity exploration, mapping the end-to-end seminar flow, then user-testing early prototypes and iterating with educators and residents before committing to high-fidelity UI.
Seminar MVP value pillars:
🧩 Turn cases into a seminar, structured sequence, reusable sessions.
🧠 Controlled reveal for case-based teaching, guided reasoning.
🗳️ In-session engagement, built-in polling without switching tools.
🔗 Simple, secure access, easy joining with minimal friction.
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Objectives and Key Results
Enable radiology educators to create and deliver high-quality teaching sessions more efficiently with an all-in-one, interactive Seminar tool, reducing prep time, increasing learner engagement, and supporting business growth.
⚡ Run case-based DICOM seminars in one tool instead of 3-4.
⏱️ Reduce teaching preparation time from 1h40m to under 20mins.
📈 Increase learner engagement by 30% (poll participation, questions submitted, or active attendance).
🧰 80%+ of seminars are created and delivered without abandoning.
✅ 70%+ of presenters complete the flow without needing support.
Go! Go! GO!
Once the high-fidelity flow tested well against our OKRs, I partnered closely with engineering to translate the prototype into a buildable plan, breaking the experience into clear states, edge cases, and measurable events.
Hand Off, Tickets and Build Readiness
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A set of tickets broken down by functional slices (seminar creation, polling, controlled reveal, join flow)
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Acceptance criteria for each ticket (what 'done' means in UI + behavior)
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Interaction specs for tricky moments (loading states, errors, permissions, and latency handling)
Soft Launch
Because teaching sessions happen in messy real-world conditions (hospital WiFi, heavy cases, mixed devices), we planned a soft launch before a wider rollout:
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Released to a small set of education heavy accounts / 'champions'
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Monitored performance and friction (load times, join success, poll participation)
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Ran short feedback loops with educators and residents
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Iterated quickly before expanding availability
From prototype to build
Feulled by research and refined by users
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Launch and brace for impact
Even with inevitable edge cases surfacing after launch, we kept iterating in tight feedback loops and within the first month the impact was clear, our new Seminar Feature:
🧰 Reduced the educator workflow from an average of 3 tools to 1
⏳ Cut seminar prep time (5 cases + 5 questions) from ~1h40m to ~14 mins
🙋♂️ Boosted learner participation (poll response rates increased by ~26%)
🏥 3 new institutions subscribed
⬆️ 6 existing education customers upgraded their membership
⭐ Shifted from a 'nice-to-have' to a MUST HAVE tool for radiology education
