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I am Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG. I practice Maternal-Fetal Medicine and build AI tools for physicians. This is where I document the work and make the case for doctors who code.

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Doctors Who Code: From GitHub to Medical AI

A practical path for physicians who want to move from GitHub basics to building real medical AI projects.

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Why Doctors Should Learn to Code

Not to become programmers. To become the kind of physician who can close the gap between a clinical insight and a working solution.

· 4 min read
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A Jupyter notebook showing a clinical risk calculator being built with Python and scikit-learn
AI in Medicine

Your First Medical AI Project on GitHub: How to Choose One You Will Actually Finish

Most physician-developers never ship their first AI project. The problem is not skill. It is scope. Here is a framework for choosing a project that lands.

· 8 min read
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A GitHub search results page filtered to medical AI repositories, showing stars, forks, and last commit dates
AI in Medicine

Navigating Medical AI on GitHub: What Is Worth Your Time

There are thousands of medical AI repositories on GitHub. Most are abandoned, half-built, or unreproducible. Here is how to find the ones that actually work.

· 7 min read
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AI in Medicine

JSON for Physicians: The Structured Data Your Clinical AI Actually Needs

A physician's guide to JSON, FHIR JSON, and structured clinical data for APIs, interoperability, and medical AI.

· 8 min read
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Three GitHub Projects Physicians Can Actually Finish

Most physician-developer projects fail not because the ideas are bad but because the first build is too large. Here are three that are sized to finish.

· 7 min read
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Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG

Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist at Atlanta Perinatal Associates. I build AI-powered clinical tools because physicians with domain expertise build better healthcare technology than external vendors ever will.

Founder of CodeCraftMD (AI medical documentation) and OpenMFM.org (open-source MFM education).

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OpenMFM.org

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