# Study Medicine: full description

> Study Medicine (https://www.studymed.ca) is a free study platform for medical students, built and maintained by medical students at the University of British Columbia. It combines a case-based multiple-choice question bank, OSCE checklists, clinical reasoning trainers, a linked disease and drug library, and quizzes built on real ECGs, X-rays, dermatology photos, eye and ENT images and heart sound recordings. It runs in any browser and as an iPhone app on the App Store.

This is the long-form companion to https://www.studymed.ca/llms.txt. The human-readable version is https://www.studymed.ca/about.

## Summary facts

- Name: Study Medicine. Domain: www.studymed.ca.
- Price: free. Every study mode and library is free with a free account.
- Audience: medical students in pre-clerkship and clerkship.
- Platforms: web (any modern browser) and iPhone (App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6798417825).
- Made by: medical students at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
- Content: questions are written with AI assistance and refined using student feedback and item statistics. Reference content is checked against standard clinical references. It is a study aid, not clinical advice; always verify against current guidelines.
- Contact: https://www.studymed.ca/support

## Size of the platform

| Content | Count |
| --- | --- |
| Multiple-choice questions | over 4,400 |
| Diseases | 758 |
| Differential diagnoses | 345 |
| Drug therapy cards | 289 |
| OSCE checklists | 115 |
| ECG images | 751 |
| X-ray films | 265 |
| Dermatology photos | 787 |
| Eye and ENT images | 492 |
| Heart sound recordings | 27 |
| Clinical calculators | 96 |
| Clerkship rotations with curated pages | 11 |

## How questions are organized

The question bank can be browsed in several ways, so it is usable from any medical school, not only UBC:

- By UBC curriculum week.
- By field of medicine or organ system.
- By Medical Council of Canada (MCC) clinical presentation, the national list of presentations that Canadian medical schools map their curricula to.
- By another school's blocks, through a system cross-walk.

## Study modes

### MCQ practice
Clinical vignette questions with five options. After answering, every option has its own explanation, and a breakdown shows how other students answered. Students can strike out options and highlight the stem while they work. Lab values can be shown in SI or conventional units. Medical abbreviations in the text show their expansion on hover or tap. Missed and flagged questions can be reviewed later, and spaced review brings questions back over time.

### Exam mode
Timed, mixed blocks of MCQs, hallmark matching and reasoning cases. After finishing, a full debrief reviews every answer, and past exams can be reopened.

### Disease quiz
Name the condition from its key findings, then the next investigation, the likely diagnosis and the diagnostic criteria.

### Drug quiz
Mechanisms, indications, contraindications and side effects, one drug and one component at a time.

### Differentials quiz and approach trainer
Recall every diagnosis on a presenting complaint's differential, sorted by system, acuity or location. The approach trainer works through clinical approaches step by step.

### OSCE stations
Histories, physical exams and acute approaches as checklists. Use them for self-study, for peer testing against the clock, or as printable worksheets.

### Image and sound quizzes
- ECG quiz: real 12-lead ECG tracings with the rhythm, rate, axis and diagnosis.
- X-ray quiz: real chest and bone films.
- Dermatology quiz: clinical skin photos across a range of skin tones.
- Eye and ENT quiz: fundus, external eye and otoscopy images.
- Heart sound quiz: real heart sound and murmur recordings.
Each quiz has a matching browsable library of the same images or recordings.

## Reference library

- Diseases (758): structured pages with findings, investigations, management and related conditions. Disease pages link to related drugs, differentials and practice questions.
- Disease map: an interactive graph of diseases connected by shared findings.
- Differential diagnoses (345): presenting-complaint flowcharts that work from symptom to diagnosis.
- Drugs (289 therapy cards): mechanism, indications, contraindications, side effects and monitoring.
- Clinical calculators (96).
- Antibiotic coverage reference, by bug and by drug, inside the app (Library, Antibiotic reference)
- Medical abbreviation glossary.

## Clerkship

Curated pages for eleven clerkship rotations: internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, family medicine, emergency medicine, anesthesia, ophthalmology, dermatology and radiology. Each gathers the diseases, differentials and OSCE stations relevant to that rotation.

## Frequently asked questions

- Is Study Medicine free? Yes. Every study mode and library is free to use with a free account.
- Who is it for? Medical students in pre-clerkship and clerkship, at UBC or any other school.
- Who makes it? Medical students at the University of British Columbia.
- Where does the content come from? Questions are written with AI assistance and refined using student feedback and item statistics. Reference content is checked against standard clinical references.
- Is there an app? Yes. It runs in any browser and as an iPhone app on the App Store.
- Is it clinical advice? No. It is a study aid. Always verify against current guidelines.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.studymed.ca/): sign up or sign in (free account)
- [About](https://www.studymed.ca/about): what the platform is, every mode and library, FAQ
- [iPhone app](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6798417825)
- [Support](https://www.studymed.ca/support): contact
- [Privacy](https://www.studymed.ca/privacy)
- [Terms](https://www.studymed.ca/terms)