AMBOSS Qbank for Medical Exams

You know it’s bad when capitalism has hit the med school question banks hard. Amboss used to be great when i first started using their library years ago. At one point I realized they had been charging me for 2 separate accounts for over a year and when it was brought to their attention they just gave a “whoops” kind of answer and never refunded me the full amount. The question bank has had technical issues since they created it. And their technical support has one answer “I’m sorry i can’t recreate the issue on my end” like okay but I can and I paid yall thousands of dollars for access to something I can’t access. So the last straw for me was the app never says what kind of access you have or when it expires. And today I got a popup saying I can’t access a question set that i completed, and want to review because my unlimited access expired yesterday. Mind you, I still pay for library access which should give me 50 questions a month, can’t have that now either. It should expire in April but Amboss seems really tight on cash if they’re trying to hustle money from poor medical students. With the amount of money I’ve given amboss, i could’ve paid for 5 of their “lifetime memberships” they used to offer before they sold out.

First off AMBOSS is gold tier. They have an incredible, extensive database. This app doesn’t really give AMBOSS though so don’t base buying a membership off this (membership is worth it just do it). This app though is giving unfinished. I think the main issue is just ui, although I appreciate the same consistency in aesthetic across AMBOSS platforms. Don’t get me wrong this is so good for doing practice questions on the fly and making things less boring. Like for example, you can hide the answers and guess before revealing them and rule them out (which the web browser version does not?). Highlighting with an Apple Pencil does not work well - when you finish a question it highlights what you should have highlighted instead of those orange/brown underlines seen in the web browser version. Also, You cannot directly access study plans made by AMBOSS through this app - you have to start a question session on the web browser before doing it on the app. The Anki card download feature thing isn’t on here either. I know this app is just for questions, but it seems like the ui flow/features should be a little more advanced given what AMBOSS has produced product-wise so far.

I have used AMBOSS for my Step 1 studying, as well as for my shelf exams. The questions are really good, and the information database (in the ‘knowledge’ app) is even better. It’s really convenient to have more info pop-up when you tap on underlined words, and links to relevant articles within answer explanations. 10/10 would recommend. Only change I would make is that the app doesn’t display the number of hammers (i.e. the level of difficulty) nor the percent of respondents who chose an answer choice the way it does on a browser.