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ClinQuest AI

The story behind ClinQuest

Built from a teacher's question.

How can we help students move from remembering an answer to explaining a clinical decision?

That question sits at the heart of ClinQuest, a project I built from scratch around the needs of teaching and learning in the health professions.

Create your first activity See how it works

Start with Explore, our free faculty plan. Students join with a game PIN.

Read why I started

From your lecture to their next decision

A simple flow. More room for discussion.

  1. Bring your material

    Upload your lecture, choose your objectives, and prepare questions or build a clinical activity.

  2. Make it yours

    Review the questions, explanations, and images before sharing them with learners.

  3. Learn together

    Invite students with a PIN, discuss decisions, and use feedback to plan what comes next.

Branching clinical cases

Let each decision lead to a consequence and a next step.

Confidence before answering

See where certainty and understanding differ.

Image-based rounds

Use faculty-reviewed images to ground a clinical discussion.

Feedback by objective

Connect responses to the concepts that need more attention.

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My motivation

Why I built it from scratch

As an educator, I want students to understand how foundational science informs the decisions they will make in practice. A correct answer matters, but so does the reasoning behind it: why this option, what evidence supports it, and what would change in a different case?

I wanted to bring that thinking into an active classroom experience. Students could discuss a question with their team, commit to an answer, receive feedback, and use the explanation to reconsider their reasoning. Faculty could build those activities around the material they actually teach.

Building ClinQuest from scratch gave me the freedom to connect the whole teaching workflow: lecture material, question preparation, faculty review, live team play, and a closer look at the results afterward. My motivation was to make that process practical enough to use as part of everyday teaching.

I also wanted to explore how AI could help educators prepare these activities while keeping academic judgment with the instructor. The questions still need review. Their educational value comes from how they are selected, discussed, and used to support learning.

What guides the project

A classroom purpose behind every feature.

Start with the teaching

Learning objectives and course material should shape the questions. Technology should help faculty turn those goals into meaningful classroom activities.

Keep faculty in control

AI can help with preparation. Faculty review, edit, and approve the questions before students play, bringing their subject knowledge and clinical judgment to the process.

Make participation meaningful

Team discussion, applied questions, and timely feedback create opportunities for students to explain their thinking and learn from each other.

Look beyond the scoreboard

Scores are a starting point. My aim is to help educators identify gaps, guide follow-up teaching, and investigate engagement and knowledge retention.

Where I want to take it

From a teaching idea to a shared tool.

ClinQuest begins with my perspective as a dental educator, with a wider ambition to support teaching in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and other health professions. I want it to be useful wherever students need to connect knowledge with decisions.

As the project develops, I want student engagement, faculty feedback, and knowledge retention to inform its direction. My goal is to build a tool that educators can refine through classroom experience and evaluate through research.

Dr. Syed Saad Bin Qasim
Founder, ClinQuest

Get in touch

Let's talk about teaching.

Have a question about ClinQuest, an idea for your classroom, or an interest in collaboration? I would be glad to hear from you.

clinquest.contact@gmail.com

Dr. Syed Saad Bin Qasim · Founder, ClinQuest

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