Setting up your
MediFellows profile
Creating your MediFellows account is the first step towards joining the world of healthcare professionals. Simply download your preferred version of the app from either the IOS or Android app store, and set up your profile.
Student Account
- Once you have chosen to create a student account during the sign-up process, all you have to do is add the university where you are currently studying.
- Once completed, the final step is to take or upload a profile picture for your MediFellows account.
Healthcare professional:
- Once you have chosen to create a Qualified healthcare professionals account during the sign-up process, you are required to supply the following information:
1. Your speciality (this is a qualified field).
2. Qualification (level of your qualification within your speciality or field, e.g. masters degree in surgery).
3. Add the country where you have received your qualification.
4. You are able to load a maximum of five qualifications.
- Add your fields of interest – this enables us to supply you with relevant information and updates on events, etc. that fall within your fields of interest.
- Finally, add your current place of work and the country that you are currently employed in.
- Once completed, the final step is to take or upload a profile picture for your MediFellows account.
Professional in the healthcare industry:
- Once you have chosen to create a Professional in the healthcare industry account, you are required to supply the following information:
1. Your place of work.
2. The country in which you are employed.
3. Practice number.
4. Your position.
- Once completed, the final step is to take or upload a profile picture for your MediFellows account.
The MediFellows Timeline
Your Timeline represents your daily interaction with the healthcare community; keeping you up-to-date with the latest articles, case studies, and events. Share anything you find interesting, relating to the healthcare industry, with your fellows.
The key features of the MediFellows Timeline
Events Section
The Events section of the MediFellows app can be used for literally any occasion.
Whether it's a small group of fellows that want to create a get-together to discuss current developments within the industry, or an exhibition open to the community featuring the latest in available modern healthcare technology. This is where you can make it all happen!
Users:
The Events feature has been formatted via a live, industry calendar – laid out daily, weekly or monthly. The user can easily filter their search parameters to find events according to interest, location or time period.
Users can bookmark or respond to event pages to add to their personalized industry calendar - which helps you keep track of all events happening in future.
Event organisers:
With MediFellows you can create three different types of events: Public, Private and Community events.
Setting Up Events:
Not only are you able to create an entry to the calendar, but Medifellows offers a full-fledged event management tool to assist with information sharing and attendee engagement before, during and post the event!
Event Locations:
Our Event's Travel section showcases all nearby accommodation for any events you are attending. This makes it easy for you to plan your whole trip from just the MediFellows app!
Event Programs:
MediFellows provides a comprehensive layout of the academic calendar and agenda for each event – which is easy to access and view. During multiple day events, you can view the programs’ scheduled timeslots for the day, or look ahead of time, and even create your own personalized diary for the sessions you would prefer to attend, with the ”My Event” feature.
We also list all the speakers on the event program, which are linked to their profiles, making it even easier for you to view credentials and background, as well as engage with your peers.
Your fellow attendees will also be available to contact via the event homepage and discussions tab. Live push notifications from the event organisers will ensure that you are kept abreast of urgent updates during the event.
CPD Feature:
Our CPD activity aggregator, for those events where the organisers that would like to activate a remote CPD check-in feature via GPS location.
Delegates registered on the app will receive a push notification that they have entered the session. No need to physically scan a code outside the venue.
The CPD facility is offered to accreditors and event organisers to activate at industry events. All CPD activated events and certificates, managed through MediFellows will be freely available to users as a CPD management system
Note: The CPD aggregator is an outsourced feature, for event organisers wanting to activate this feature, we can put you in touch with an administrator to activate this at a fee. We merely provide this GPS check in facility via the MediFellows platform.
Communities
With the overarching goal of better collaboration in mind, Communities provide a more formalised, digital setting for healthcare societies, associations, institutions, and other groups of common interests within the industry to connect within a secure, digital setting.
With MediFellows you can create three different types of communities:
Closed Communities:
When a community is closed, only those who have been invited to the community can see the content and information shared within it. An example of a closed community might be fellows who are working on a project together and want to communicate with one another more efficiently. By creating a closed community the team is given a private forum to share ideas on the project and post updates.
Still , all information is shared only with those within the community once it has been made closed. Others will still be able to see the community exists and who the members are, but they will not be able to see any posts or information within the closed community unless they are invited
Private Communities:
Even more private than the closed community is a ‘secret’ community. Only those that are invited to these communities are privy to their existence on the platform.
This community will not appear anywhere on your profile, and only those within the community can view other fellows of the Community, as well as what is posted.
Public Communities:
When a community is public, anyone can see who is in the community and what has been posted. Still, only members of the community have the ability to post within it. A public community is exactly what it sounds like: it's fully visible to everyone, and anyone can join without being approved.
All members' posts are fully visible to all other MediFellows users, so this type of community does not offer the sense of privacy and security that comes with the more restricted community types. However, it is the easiest community type for fellows to join and engage, and can therefore grow quickly.
Businesses
MediFellows offers a directory of Businesses from within the industry. The benefit of this is two-fold:
To users
Any registered user can create, list and showcase a business or service for free. This adds value to users who may be looking for a brand, product or service, as well as opens up an encrypted line of communication between the industry and the professional regarding product and other service related queries.
Company and product related information will only appear on one’s timeline, if you choose to follow that specific Business.
To businesses
This industry directory provides the opportunity to reach your audience via a free, secure digital platform.
In addition, MediFellows offers brand management facilities within your business administration features, giving you the opportunity to manage your brand’s voice across other posts, businesses and communities throughout the platform.
Coming soon to MediFellows
A sneak peak into the features that are being worked on!
Job Market
The Job Portal is where you can get some help to kick off and develop your professional career in the industry. You can either search for available positions within the healthcare industry or create a post for an available position. This helps the healthcare industry to connect by providing employment opportunities within the professional community.
Market Place
In the Marketplace, you can search for items that other users have advertised for sale. These items can be anything relating to the healthcare industry, for example; healthcare accessories, medical equipment, disposable supplies, patient care, and transport.
Academic Centre
The Academic Centre is unique to the MediFellows app. It is a must-have feature for anyone in the healthcare industry, students, and professionals alike. Instantly get access to the world’s most sought-after healthcare journals, case studies and unlimited chapters from the most renowned health books. Join the nucleus of healthcare collaboration.
