Aidan Birdi

Hi I’m Aidan – a third year medic.

It’s been a great pleasure this year to work as the Education Officer for ICSM Coding. I’ve really enjoyed hosting our beginner Python course aimed at medics and taught by medics, and it’s been great to help members learn coding through the Python course socials and drop-in sessions. I’m looking forward to hosting our new mathematical modelling series in Medicine later this month, as well as in helping with our much anticipated inaugural conference!

Coding is an extremely important gateway skill in Medicine, and our course doesn’t emphasise its due importance, so our society is more important than ever to equip our members with key skills.

I have a good amount of coding experience which I feel puts me in a good position to help steer the society. I’ve worked on a computational cardiology UROP which applied information theory and machine learning to electrophysiological modelling, a generative AI project in my Horizons, as well as having a large extra-curricular interest in maths and stats.

My primary goals continuing as Education Officer would be to:

• Continue to refine our beginner Python course, and improve completion and follow-through rates.
• Increase course variety, and organise informative and practical external speaker events.
• Utilise member feedback to offer more tailored courses and advice to enthusiastic medic coders!
• Work closely with other committee members to improve the society, and help with other key events and conferences.
• Be a friendly point of contact for members.