App Concept
"Medical Circle" is a file-sharing app designed for medical students to safely and smoothly share materials useful for lectures, practicals, and exam preparation.
Daily lecture slides, easy-to-understand summary notes created by seniors, checklists used in practicals, key point handouts used by everyone before exams—a lot of materials are exchanged during medical school studies.
However, these materials are often exchanged in scattered locations such as LINE groups, email, and personal cloud storage, leading to stresses such as:
- Not knowing where the desired material is located
- Having to endlessly scroll through past group chat logs
- Not knowing who has the latest version
- Feeling uneasy because highly confidential information is mixed in
"Medical Circle" was developed with the goal of resolving these problems and creating a situation where "you can find almost all the materials you need for medical school in one place."

2. Main Features
2-1. File Organization Specialized for Medical Students
Unlike general cloud storage, Medical Circle allows for classification tailored to the learning style of medical students. Specifically, you can organize your files using the following categories:
• University name and campus
• Year of study
• Subject (e.g., Anatomy, Physiology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, etc.)
• Learning scenario (Lecture, Practical training, Exam preparation, Self-study, etc.)
• Free tags ("For memorization," "Many diagrams," "Key points only," etc.)
Instead of dividing files into detailed categories based on the "type" of exam, we've created a simple classification system that aligns with daily learning scenarios, making it intuitively usable by students of any year.

2-2. A system where senior students' knowledge naturally accumulates
In Medical Circle, files uploaded by senior students are saved in an organized format by year of study and subject.
This creates the following benefits:
• Lower-year students can refer to materials actually used by senior students.
• "Exam trends" and "frequently asked points" from instructors who teach the same subject multiple times are accumulated in the form of notes and handouts.
• When you advise junior students, you can easily tell them, "Just look at this folder in this app."
These are some of the advantages. The fundamental concept of Medical Circle is to naturally foster mutual support among students.

3. Typical Usage Scenarios
3-1. For Preparation and Review Before and After Lectures
By opening Medical Circle before a lecture, you can immediately access materials related to that subject, such as:
• Summary handouts created by senior students
• Materials summarizing important charts and graphs

When reviewing after a lecture, viewing materials organized from other people's perspectives, in addition to your own notes, deepens understanding and makes it easier to grasp common areas where students struggle.

3-2. For Preparation for Clinical Practice and Observation
Before clinical practice or hospital observation, there are many things to consider, such as manners, necessary items, and how to interpret basic cases.
Medical Circle allows you to upload materials such as:
• Lists of items to bring for each clinical practice
• Summaries of basic procedures in wards and outpatient clinics
• Clinical practice notebooks and record formats

These materials can be organized and uploaded by clinical unit or department. This allows you to alleviate anxieties such as "What should I prepare on the morning of the first day?" and "To what level of review is sufficient?" by using materials based on the real-life experiences of senior students.

3-3. For Comprehensive Review Before Exams
As regular exams and major exams before advancing to the next year approach, the Medical Circle acts as an "exam preparation hub."

• Printouts summarizing frequently tested areas

• Checklists containing only important points

• Self-study problem sets created by past students

• "Make sure you review this" lists distributed just before exams

These resources are accessible by subject, allowing for efficient and focused studying in a short amount of time.

Of course, instead of creating folders separated by specific exam types, the resources are organized by subject and learning objective, resulting in a simple and easy-to-understand structure.

4. Features for Safe Use
Consideration of Information Risks Unique to the Medical Field

Medical school learning materials sometimes contain sensitive information, such as patient information and detailed case studies.

Medical Circle prohibits the uploading of files containing real names or personally identifiable information. It also displays warnings and guidelines during uploads to ensure users are aware of and can use the service safely.

Furthermore, a system is in place to allow the administrators to report and hide problematic files, enabling quick action in the event of uploads that violate the rules.

5. Emphasis on Usability
5-1. Simple and Intuitive Screen
To ensure busy medical students can use it without stress, the Medical Circle screen is designed to be as simple as possible.

• The home screen immediately displays "Your Year," "Frequently Used Subjects," and "Recently Added Materials."

• Quickly search by subject name, keyword, or tag using the search bar.

• Register favorite files as "Favorites" for quick access later.

The UI aims to allow users to perform these basic operations without hesitation.

5-2. Measures to Lower the Burden of Uploading

No sharing app is useful if no materials are collected.

Therefore, Medical Circle also prioritizes ease of uploading.

- Take photos with your smartphone and upload them directly as PDFs.
- Add a "brief explanatory comment" and "recommended usage" to each file.
- The creator name can be your real name or a nickname (assuming it will be shared within the university).
This design creates an atmosphere where it's easy to "just upload it for now."

We value the fact that even if the materials aren't perfect, they will help someone else's studies.

6. What the Medical Circle Aims For

The ultimate goal of the Medical Circle is a shift from "studying alone" to "studying with mutual support."

Studying in medical school is inevitably voluminous and can easily become isolating.

However, in reality, every year has various types of students: those who are good at summarizing, those who are good at creating diagrams, those who enjoy creating problems, and so on.

The Medical Circle aims to be a place where each individual's strengths can be shared in the form of files.

- If you're good at creating summaries, upload your notes.
- If you enjoy solving problems, share your self-made problem sets.
- If you know the tricks to practical training, upload checklists and experience reports.
These small outputs accumulate and become a great support for younger students.
And ultimately, this will lead to a foundation for when you stand on the field as a doctor—Medical Circle is an app designed with this long-term perspective in mind.

7. Recommended for people like this:
- People who want to make their notes and summaries useful to someone else.
- People whose lecture materials and past handouts tend to get lost on their PC or smartphone.
- People who are asked the same questions by younger students every year and think, "It would be so much easier if I could just give them all at once."
- People who want to efficiently review only the key points before an exam.
- People who are always anxious about what and how much they need to prepare before practical training.
If you have even a little bit of these feelings, "Medical Circle" is probably a good fit for you.

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