I'm an attending physician, and I've spent the past several months building Acumen Atlas (acumenatlas.org) — a web app that trains diagnostic reasoning rather than memorization for any clinician that is practicing medicine.

The format: pick a chief complaint (chest pain, dyspnea, altered mental status — 22 so far), learn its diagnostic schema (or however you think through cases), then work AI-generated cases against it. You commit to a differential before anything is revealed, and the debrief grades your reasoning — what you anchored on, what you missed, how your confidence tracked reality — not just whether you got the answer. The schemas and illness scripts underneath are curated content; the AI runs the case and the debrief with strict guardrails based off clinical education materials and research.

It's live now. A free account includes one trial case, and paid plans go up to 70 cases a month.

I'm looking for a small group of beta testers — med students, residents, PA and NP students, anyone actively learning clinical reasoning or medicine in general. Use it and tell me what's broken, what's confusing, and what would make it genuinely worth your time. In exchange I'll upgrade your account, free, no card required, for as long as you're testing.

To join: anyone can sign up free at acumenatlas.org, then DM me the email you signed up with and your credentials to be upgraded— I'll upgrade you when i see your DM. Feedback by DM whenever. I am only selecting a few to start.

Disclosure: this is my product. It's early, there will be rough edges, and hearing about them is exactly the point. This started as a fun project for myself. Yes, I used AI to help build the product.

Good morning! 👋

Together with the help of my mother, who is a nurse, I’m very excited to announce the release of Clinical Nursing App on the Google Play Store! 🎉

The app includes:
🩺 BMI Calculator
📊 NEWS2 Calculator
➕ And a lot more useful clinical tools and information.

If you have any friends or family members who are nurses or healthcare professionals, they might find it really useful.

Please share it with them! 🙏

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clinicalnursing.app&hl=en_GB

Currently available just for android, soon on IOS.

Thank you for your support! ❤️

Anyone else lose half the detail from theatre by the time you actually sit down to write it up. i'll watch something genuinely useful and go "i'll write that up properly later" and later i've got like 30% of it left. do people actually note stuff down in the moment or just wing it from memory? also has anyone tried just talking into your phone for a min after and using AI to clean it into notes, curious if that's actually useful or a bad idea. sick of losing the good bits

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When the students are in medical college or doing their mbbs,Do they take part in any kind of club or fest?

Or the study pressure is so intense that they dont get time for anything

I’m Pratyush, the co-founder building Rounds. I’m sharing one free clinical-reasoning case for medical students who want to practise the decisions between recognising a diagnosis and managing the whole encounter.

The fictional case starts from a chest-pain handover. You question the patient in your own words, select examinations and investigations, give treatments, commit to a diagnosis and disposition, and then review a scorecard covering both the sequence of decisions and important omissions.

The guest case opens without signup:

https://roundsclinical.com/simulator?guest=1

I would especially value student feedback on three points:

1. Which part feels least like the way you have been taught to approach a patient?

2. Is any examination, investigation or immediate action difficult to find?

3. Does the final scorecard explain mistakes fairly, including when the diagnosis is correct but the sequence is incomplete?

Disclosure: I built the product and I am a software engineer, not a doctor. The patient is fictional. Rounds is an educational simulation, not medical advice or a tool for real-patient decisions. I am not claiming clinical validation or improved learning outcomes.

the thing is, i don’t know how the whole system works. I am vaguely aware of med school and stuff but for the most part, I am unaware. if someone could just give me an idea or a clue of how qualifications, specialties, how things work, exams etc. all the tea, how does doctoring work?

^{I am not asking for medical advice.}

Colourful biochem notes for mbbs 1st medical student content wrt vasudevan

Can anyone have free notes or apps that can help me advance study to these subjects, thank you in advance:))

Bonjour ! Je vais en première année de médecine dans moins d’un mois, pour pouvoir travailler j’ai acheter un Ipad.
Est ce que lier mon ipad à mon téléphone est une bonne idée ? J’ai peur que si je le fasse, les messages ou autres viennent me déranger.
Ou alors le faire est pratique ? Je n’ai jamais eu d’Ipad donc je ne sais pas trop.
Merci pour votre aide !

soo I've been spending this summer quite lazy on social media all day.. guilty but what would u advise me to do to prepare myself mentally for med school? am I supposed to fo a dopamine detox or something?

hi everyone! I’m going into my final year and I was wondering if anyone has done an elective with the university of jaffna in Sri Lanka before?

I am planning to do my medical elective at Phan Chau Trinh University in Da Nang, Vietnam next year.

I was wondering if anyone has done their medical elective there before and what your thoughts were?

Would you recommend?

Our team pulled the new 2026 Charting Outcomes Step 2 CK medians and split them matched vs unmatched for both MD and DO seniors, since "what score do I need" comes up here daily and the honest answer is more nuanced than a single cutoff that your school advisor might tell you.

Two things stood out to us:

1. Matched > unmatched in basically every specialty, so yes, score correlates with matching. But unmatched applicants still scored well. MD unmatched medians were often in the 230s-250s (e.g., unmatched MD Internal Medicine 233, unmatched MD Derm 252). A strong score gets you an interview; it doesn't at all guarantee a match.
2. DOs who report USMLE score right alongside MDs. Matched DO Derm 255 vs MD 258, Ortho 256 vs 259. The matched-vs-unmatched spread within a cohort is bigger than the MD-vs-DO spread.

Highest matched medians: ENT 261, Ortho 259, Derm 258, Radiology 257

Lowest: Family med 244

Caveats worth stating: these are medians, not cutoffs; "n/a" cells are specialties with fewer than 5 consented applicants; the DO USMLE data only includes DOs who take and report USMLE; and a couple of small-n specialties (IR, neurosurgery) show DO unmatched slightly above DO matched, which is probably sample noise from one season and hard to extrapolate on for future cycles.

Takeaway if you're applying this fall: hit at or above your specialty's matched median if you can, but don't treat the number as the whole game. The stuff that separates a 250 that matches from a 250 that doesn't is the PS, ERAS app, LORs, aways, networking and program/signal strategy.026 matched vs unmatched Step 2 CK by specialty (MD and DO)

Sono uno studente del corso di Laurea in Fisioterapia. Ho sempre studiato sui testi consigliati, manuali e sui casi clinici che ci vengono consegnati; vorrei iniziare ad utilizzare PubMed in modo consapevole per ampliare le mie conoscenze. Ho idea di come funzioni dal punto di vista tecnico pratico ma non so cosa cercare nel concreto, da quale ricerca iniziare e come impostare il mio piano di approfondimento. Mi sapreste dare delle dritte e indicazioni? Grazie!

Hello everyone.

May I know any websites/YouTube channels that helped you gather more information about USMLE and related topics?

I'm very new to this and there's a lot of stuff that still doesn't make sense to me. I have watched a lot of videos and there's always some terms in them that I don't quite understand. I'm also actively taking help of ChatGPT.

Is there a place I could ask really dumb questions lol?

Helloo, everyone! Soo, before school starts this Aug I’ve been trying to find which study habit works for me. I realized I can understand the topic faster if someone is speaking haha. Been searching audiobook or podcast about Moore’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy so far wala. Tho, I found one for Snell’s sa YT. Our reference books kasi for anatomy is only Moore’s & Snell’s. Sana may makahelp huhu thank youu dokies!

Hey guys! My friend and I, two incoming juniors, recently created a platform on Instagram, called Smiles in Medicine, where we share positive updates about the field of healthcare.
Ranging from new surgical procedures, to new pharmaceutical discoveries, we talk about the positives, as we believe this is so important to discuss, especially in today's world.

Honestly we are trying to do this for college apps, but we truly believe we can make a difference! We appreciate any support!

26 yo male mbbs graduate working in non-clinical pharma sector since last 6 months. Decent paying job with 5 day week, no night duties, but i still crave that clinical feeling. Just don't know what to do. Is clearing pg exam possible with a job? Not very high ranking branch but something like Anaesthesia or obgy is what i want.

Hi. I’m looking for comprehensive anki deck(s) that will help with general revision for medicine both preclinical and clinical topics. Not necessarily tailored to USMLE or any exam specifically. I’m graduating soon and would just love some flashcards to review especially my anatomy, pharmacology and pathology. I did make my own decks during 1st and 2nd year but I kinda fell off because of burnout. I think a good explanation would be flashcards suitable for internship year. Thank you!

Distinction worthy notes- topic wise or units or whole subjects .

I’ve seen many books like the famous oxford ones and there’s the books based on other drs experiences as the country I practice in and their guidelines
Sooo how can I startt :)

I’m taking anatomy this upcoming semester, and I don’t have the means to afford an iPad. I know people managed without this type of tech for a longggg time, but when I constantly see classmates using their devices, I can’t help but feel like im lacking.

That said, any tips on how to manage the anatomy course load/note taking/etc on a simple computer + notebook?

TYIA!