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BenBakster/README.md

Anton Vilenchyk / Ben Bakster

I am a Kyiv-based physician-psychiatrist building practical, local-first software for psychiatry, medical education, and clinical workflow support.

My work sits at the intersection of emergency psychiatry, outpatient psychiatric care, psycho-oncology, medical education, and small software tools. I am especially interested in turning clinical structure into clear interfaces: screening instruments, reference databases, decision aids, training tools, and privacy-preserving offline utilities.

Clinical Background

  • Physician-psychiatrist with 7 years of clinical experience.
  • Certified specialist in psychiatry; medical education at Bogomolets National Medical University.
  • Current clinical work includes public-sector psychiatry and private outpatient practice.
  • Private practice / FOP: KABIMED.
  • Member of the Ukrainian Psycho-Oncology Association, with work focused on adult oncology patients, relatives of oncology patients, and clients without cancer history.
  • Previous psycho-oncology work included LISOD / Israeli Oncology Hospital context and public education on psychotropic medications in oncology.

Public Education

  • Guest psychiatrist on Простими словами, season Наука стійкості, within the Ukrainian mental health program Ти як?.
  • Discussed psychiatry and answered audience questions with Roman Gavrylin / Dr. Gavrylin.
  • Public materials include antidepressants, psychiatric assessment, psycho-oncology, and patient-facing mental health education.

What I Build

I build tools that are intentionally small, transparent, and clinically cautious:

  • local-first screening and scoring utilities;
  • psychiatric and psycho-oncology reference systems;
  • medical exam trainers and question banks;
  • clinical workflow navigators;
  • static apps that avoid unnecessary patient-data collection;
  • interfaces that make uncertainty and limitations visible.

Featured Clinical Tools

  • psych-encyclopaedia - RU/UA clinical reference for practicing psychiatrists and narcologists, with structured entries, flowcharts, and citations.
  • pid5-irf - PID-5 Informant Report Form web tool for relatives of patients; offline and client-side.
  • cape42-tools - multilingual CAPE-42 / CAPE-P15 psychotic-spectrum screening tool.
  • pcl5-tools - offline trilingual PCL-5 screening and monitoring tool.
  • mid60-tools - local MID-60 scoring and interpretation tool.
  • pppd-screener - structured PPPD self-report mapped to Barany Society criteria.

Medical Education And Workflow Projects

Technical Interests

  • Local-first clinical software
  • Static web apps and offline scoring utilities
  • Psychiatric assessment workflows
  • Clinical reference databases
  • Medical education interfaces
  • Privacy-preserving practice tools
  • Linux, OpenBSD, search systems, and small developer utilities

Working Principles

  • Clinical tools should be transparent, source-aware, and conservative in wording.
  • Psychiatric software should support clinical judgment, not pretend to replace it.
  • Patient-facing tools should avoid collecting identifiable data unless there is a clear reason and explicit consent.
  • Educational resources should make uncertainty visible instead of hiding it behind confident UI.
  • Useful medical software can often be simple: static pages, local computation, printable summaries, careful wording, and good citations.

Disclaimer

Public repositories here are educational or workflow-support tools. They are not a substitute for clinical judgment, emergency care, local law, formal guidelines, supervision, or individualized medical advice.

Contact

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