Meet the Osmosis Team: Amin

So my name is Amin Azam and at osmosis, I have historically been involved with Wikipedia editing efforts with medical students contributing to Wikipedia and going forward to osmosis.

I expect that I'll be doing some work with faculty at institutional partners, helping them optimize the value of osmosis within their school curricula and within the platforms.

Basically, we wanna make sure that schools that are using osmosis are helping their students learn as much as possible as effectively as possible and retain that knowledge as long as possible.

Back in 2013, I created a Wikipedia editing course at UCSF and it turned out to be the first of its kind in the world. And I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by the New York Times.

One of the co founders of osmosis, read that article and reached out to me because osmosis was working with medical students to write questions for each other.

So effectively, they were crowd sourcing med students as content creators. And I was doing the same thing at UCSF for Wikipedia.

So Shiv and I realized that we were doing a lot of really cool, interesting stuff helping students learn by creating content and we kept in touch ever since.

Well, there's a lot of things that make osmo so special. First of all, I'm a big fan of the space repetition concept because a lot of med schools and a lot of med students suffer from what I'll call the binge and purge model of medical school binge on some content for a class and then you purge it up for the test at the end of the class and then you move on to binging for the next subject area.

That's not how to be a good doc. That's how to pass a test.

If we want our physicians to be lifelong learners, then they really need to be thinking about coming back to content over and over again to remember it.

And so space repetition conceptually is really good for future docs osmosis is one of the first platforms that prioritize space repetition as a strategy for retaining knowledge, not just learning it.

So that's one thing thing I love about osmosis is the crowd sourcing students as content creators. So why do our students rely on just a few practice questions from faculty members when there's a whole world of med students who are willing to share with each other and willing to write questions for each other that help everybody, lets everybody do better because we're all helping each other learn medi.

So those are just some of the reasons why I love osmosis. I love being on the team meetings weekly when we divide up and we do basically kind of a roses and thorns thing.

So in our breakout groups of team members all over the world, I love getting to know other teammates in ways that are truly on, on a human to human level.

And I don't know any other company that prioritizes that so deeply within the entire community of teammates. If I think very carefully about it, I really would say I have each other's backs because there is something about knowing that you are a part of a team.

And it's not about me, it's about us help professional students, help the patients, they're going to help and the loved ones that are going to.

So you got to have each other's backs. My three family members is a really easy answer.

My wife and my two kids, let's assume there's no wifi signal on the islet. So I was gonna say some kind of good book or something like that where I could read it, but, but then eventually read the whole book.

So a really long one. And then, you know, I think I'd wanna have some kind of mechanism for writing some kind of tool that would allow me to sort of capture my thoughts or uh you know, sort of do something creative and then an endless supply of really awesome food.

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