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Medicine needs more physicians who can build.

Doctors Who Code is a guided learning platform for physicians who want to understand software, use AI with judgment, and build clinical tools that survive contact with real practice.

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Written from
Maternal-Fetal Medicine practice
Built by
Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG

Learning Paths

Begin with the gap you need to close.

The archive contains the full body of work. These paths give selected articles an instructional order and a project at the end.

Path 1

Learn to Code

Build the habits and technical vocabulary required to turn a bounded problem into working software.

For
Physicians with little or no programming experience.
Outcome
Create, version, and explain a small project that solves one problem you understand.
1 course 4 lessons 27 min View path
Path 2

Use AI in Medicine

Move from isolated prompts to observable clinical workflows with deliberate human checkpoints.

For
Physicians who already use ChatGPT or another general-purpose AI tool.
Outcome
Design an AI-assisted workflow that protects clinical judgment, data quality, and accountability.
2 courses 14 lessons 106 min View path
Path 3

Build Medical Software

Translate clinical rules and workflow knowledge into tested, deployable tools.

For
Physicians ready to build applications for clinical or operational use.
Outcome
Take a bounded clinical need from workaround to tested software with an explicit deployment boundary.
2 courses 10 lessons 89 min View path

Featured Start Here Guide

One path. One course. One finished build.

Do not begin by trying to understand the entire software landscape. Choose the path that matches your present work. Complete its first course in order. Build the project before adding another course.

Open Start Here
  1. 01
    Locate the gapCode, AI workflow design, or medical software.
  2. 02
    Follow the sequenceLessons are ordered by dependency, not publication date.
  3. 03
    Produce the artifactA utility, workflow map, or tested calculator.

Physician-Built Projects

The argument is visible in the systems.

The platform teaches from working examples built inside clinical practice, not from abstract product exercises.

Clinical Decision Support

FGRManager

SMFM fetal growth restriction guidance translated into a bedside delivery-timing tool.

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Open Medical Education

OpenMFM

Open-source maternal-fetal medicine education, clinical references, and physician-built tools.

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Clinical Workflow Systems

CodeCraftMD

Physician-led documentation, coding, and workflow architecture built from clinical practice.

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AI in Medicine Featured

Medical Education Does Not Need an AI Course. It Needs a New Clinical Curriculum.

Preparing physicians for agentic AI requires more than an elective. Medical education must redesign how students reason independently, delegate work, verify machine output, and retain clinical judgment.

· 12 min read
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A physician supervises a clinical AI robot during a consultation with a pregnant patient
AI in Medicine Featured

The Physician Above the Loop: Preparing Medicine for Agentic AI

Clinical intelligence is becoming abundant. Physicians must learn to delegate, verify, contextualize, and judge the work of increasingly autonomous clinical AI systems.

· 14 min read
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A traveler using a password manager on a laptop during an overnight international flight
Technology Featured

I Switched Password Managers at 35,000 Feet

A difficult login over airplane Wi-Fi forced me to act on research I had already done: leave NordPass, move to 1Password, and stay loyal to the workflow rather than the vendor.

· 6 min read
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Two physicians designing clinical software beside a patient, with interfaces for ambient documentation, evidence-based algorithms, and standardized patient care
Physician-Developer Featured

Why I Rebuilt Doctors Who Code

Doctors Who Code began as a blog encouraging physicians to learn programming. It is now a learning platform for physicians who want to use AI with judgment and build clinical tools that improve care.

· 13 min read
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