A mobile application to digitize logbook entries, share medical literature resources, and build a community for medical professionals
Docked is a secure digital platform that revolutionizes medical and dental education documentation by replacing traditional paper logbooks with a comprehensive mobile and web-based solution. The platform enables healthcare professionals to record clinical cases, generate university-compliant reports, access real-time statistics, and maintain standardized assessments. It features specialty-specific modules, faculty review systems, thesis support, and academic networking capabilities, addressing critical gaps in current documentation practices while promoting collaboration and research insights.
Current paper-based logbook systems in Indian postgraduate medical and dental education suffer from critical issues including data loss, lack of standardization, inefficient faculty oversight, and poor retrievability. These manual systems prevent real-time feedback, are not scalable, and hinder research capabilities. Additionally, 72% of residents report losing logbook data, with 6 hours monthly wasted on rewriting entries, creating significant inefficiencies in medical documentation.
Salient Features:
- Specialty-specific digital logbook modules across multiple medical disciplines
- Real-time dashboard for clinical work statistics and performance tracking
- University-compliant report generation with standardized templates
- Faculty approval system enabling real-time review and validation
- Thesis and clinical study support with customizable templates
- Admin dashboard for comprehensive user management
Cross-platform availability (Android, iOS)
Advantages/Novelty:
- First digital, specialty-agnostic comprehensive solution for Indian medical documentation.
- Eliminates data loss issues prevalent in 72% of traditional logbook users
- Reduces paper waste by approximately 100 pages per professional annually
- Enables real-time feedback and collaboration between students and faculty
- Standardized assessments and audits across institutions
- Provides scalable research-friendly data collection capabilities
- Integrates career portfolio building with academic documentation
- Multi-platform Architecture: Native Android and iOS apps ensuring accessibility across devices
- Specialty-specific Modules: Four specialized logbook modules tailored to different medical disciplines with customizable templates
- Real-time Dashboard: Interactive statistics panel displaying clinical work performance and milestone tracking
- Faculty Review System: Integrated approval workflow enabling real-time validation and feedback from supervisors
- Report Generation: Automated system creating university-compliant documentation and assessments
- Admin Management: Comprehensive dashboard for user management.
Docked significantly transforms medical education by enhancing documentation efficiency, reducing environmental impact through paperless operations, and improving healthcare professional training quality. The platform enables better tracking of curriculum milestones, standardizes medical education practices across institutions, and facilitates research through anonymized data collection. This leads to improved patient care quality and strengthens the overall healthcare ecosystem in India.
Primary applications include postgraduate medical and dental education across 60+ specialties, institutional academic management, clinical research documentation, and thesis preparation. The platform serves medical colleges, hospitals, healthcare institutions, and professional medical societies. Future applications extend to patient-doctor matching based on expertise, national-level healthcare research collaborations, and industry innovation validation through expert surveys and domain-specific analytics.