A final-year medical student at the University of Ibadan, Peyimika Aremu, is leveraging artificial intelligence to create digital solutions for healthcare despite once considering dropping out of medical school.
Aremu, who describes himself as a generalist, said his journey began with early exposure to the Internet, which sparked an interest in writing, volunteering, and later technology. By 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he started coding and eventually earned a scholarship at ALX after completing the “100 Days of Code” challenge.
His experience with technology soon merged with his medical studies. Faced with overwhelming course materials, Aremu turned to AI tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini to condense lecture slides and generate practice questions, enabling him to study more efficiently. “Medical school can be chaotic, with tens of thousands of slides for a single course. Using AI tools, I could break materials into digestible points and revise faster,” he said.
Aremu has since co-founded the UCH Tech Society to support medical students pursuing tech skills and is now building healthcare products.
These include an AI-powered tool that summarises medical topics into mind maps, another that interprets laboratory results into patient-friendly reports, and a system that provides SMS follow-ups after consultations.
According to him, combining medicine with technology is possible and necessary. “My generalist skills, ranging from design to marketing and engineering, have helped me scale healthcare solutions that address real challenges,” he said.
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