# AskMed: full text > The readable text of getaskmed.com's main pages in one file: the home page, About and every blog post. Short summary and links: https://getaskmed.com/llms.txt --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/ Title: AskMed: Medical Answers You Can Actually Trust Trusted by 250,000+ students & doctors # Medical Answers You Can Actually Trust Ask any medical question. Get a clear answer with citations from journals, guidelines and drug labels. Made for: Physicians 4.9 on the App Store ## One question. Every source shown. No Pharma Advertising Global Guideline Coverage ## Why not just use ChatGPT? | PubMed yourself | ChatGPT | AskMed Real citations | If you find them | Not reliably | Every answer Guidelines + drug labels | Separate searches | No | Built in Source filters | Manual | No | Yes Time per question | Long reads | Seconds | Seconds ## For every specialty Internal Medicine Family Medicine Surgery Pediatrics OB/GYN Psychiatry Emergency Cardiology Neurology Oncology Anesthesia Radiology Dermatology ## Still have questions? Q: Who is AskMed for? For healthcare professionals, medical students, and researchers exploring medical information. For education, not a substitute for clinical supervision or professional judgment. Q: How is this different from ChatGPT? AskMed organizes medical questions into explanations, source references, and research tools. Check original sources: AI responses and citations can contain errors. Q: How up to date is the content? AskMed can search medical literature and guidelines. Check each source's publication date and the latest official guidance; information may be incomplete or outdated. Q: Will this improve my exam scores? Use AskMed to explore concepts and review explanations alongside your study materials. Verify information with trusted references; exam results are not guaranteed. Q: How do I cancel? Subscribed in the app: one tap in your Apple subscription settings. Subscribed on this website: tap Manage subscription on your account page. No emails. No friction. Q: Is my data private? Your conversations are encrypted and never sold. We're HIPAA-conscious and built independently — no pharma sponsorship. Q: Can I get more than Pro? - AskMed Max adds Deep Dive and Exam Prep - Deep Dive: full evidence reports with 20+ sources - Exam Prep: practice for PLAB, USMLE, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS and 5 more - Everything in Pro stays included --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/about Title: About AskMed: AI Medical Reference for Clinicians # About AskMed ## What is AskMed? AskMed (App Store name "Medical Assistant: AskMed AI") is an AI medical reference app for healthcare professionals and students: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and medical researchers. AskMed answers clinical questions with citations to journals, clinical guidelines and drug labels, so every answer can be checked at its source. Before an answer is written, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, including PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NICE, WHO, CDC, FDA and DailyMed, and each claim in the answer links to the source that supports it. If the search finds no usable source, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. AskMed gives no medication doses, is not a symptom checker, and carries no pharma advertising or sponsorship. AskMed runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account, is available in seven languages, and works worldwide with no US license or NPI needed. AskMed is made by Loop Studio. People also search for AskMed as Ask Med or AskMed AI. Who it's for: Doctors (family medicine and GP, internal medicine and other specialties), residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and medical researchers. What it does: Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels. Research Mode analyzes up to 20 papers. Source filters, and PDFs and images can be attached to a question. What it doesn't do: It is not a symptom checker and not for patients' self-diagnosis. It gives no medication dosing and carries no pharma advertising or sponsorship. It is for education and reference, not a substitute for clinical judgment. Plans: AskMed Pro: $24.99 per month or $129.99 per year. AskMed Max: $599.99 per year, adds Deep Dive (full evidence reports with 20+ sources) and Exam Prep. Prices in USD; local prices vary by country. Exam Prep: PLAB, USMLE, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Platforms: iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. One account works on all of them. Languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. Where it works: Worldwide. No US license or NPI needed. Who makes it: Loop Studio. Same name, different product: AskMed is not related to other products or companies that use the name "AskMed" or "ASKMED.AI". Contact: support@getaskmed.com --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/how-askmed-answers Title: How AskMed Answers: Sources, Citations, No Doses and Limits # How AskMed answers Last updated November 3, 2026 AskMed is an AI medical reference app for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. To answer a question, AskMed searches a fixed list of trusted medical sources (journals, clinical guidelines and drug labels, plus references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual), and an AI language model then writes the answer from what that search found. Every claim links to the source it came from, so you can check it yourself. If no usable source turns up, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. AskMed never states medication doses, and no person reviews an answer before you see it, which is why each answer is built to be checked against its sources. This page explains where AskMed's answers come from, how the citations work, what AskMed leaves out and why, how to check an answer, how to ask a better question, and the limits of AI answers. - Cited sources Journals, clinical guidelines and drug labels, linked after each claim - No source, no answer If nothing trusted is found, AskMed says so instead of guessing - No drug doses Never amounts, schedules or dose calculations - AI-generated Check the source before acting on an answer ## Where answers come from AskMed's answers come from a fixed list of medical websites that AskMed searches before any answer is written: journals and research databases such as PubMed and the Cochrane Library, clinical guidelines and health agencies such as NICE, WHO and CDC, the FDA and DailyMed drug labels, and clinical references such as StatPearls and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed does not search the open web, forums or social media. The search query is written by AskMed in precise medical terms rather than copied from your wording, and for management questions it adds "latest guideline update" so the newest guidance is found. From the results, AskMed prefers guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then review articles and references, then large trials and other studies. Sources from the last 10 years are preferred unless the topic is settled basic science, and when guidance has changed, the answer says what changed and since which year. The full list of sources is below. - Medical journals and databases: PubMed and PubMed Central, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ and 11 specialty journals in cardiology, diabetes, pediatrics, respiratory medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, oncology, neurology, gastroenterology and psychiatry. - Clinical guidelines and health agencies: NICE, the US Preventive Services Task Force, WHO, CDC, ECDC, the National Cancer Institute, and guideline groups such as ESC, KDIGO, GINA, GOLD, IDSA and ACOG. - Drug labels: FDA and DailyMed. For local brand names, AskMed also looks in official drug registries from many countries, such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk. - Medical references: the NCBI Bookshelf (including StatPearls), the MSD and Merck Manuals for professionals, and BMJ Best Practice. ## Every claim is cited AskMed cites every claim in an answer: each sentence or clause is followed by a link to the source that supports it, using the source's exact web address, and the app turns those links into numbered references. AskMed is instructed to cite a source only for what that source actually says, and never to invent web addresses, studies, statistics or citation numbers. Each answer draws on several different sources rather than leaning on one: 8 by default, and you can set any number from 3 to 12 with the Number of sources slider in the app's source filters. If the answer cites more sources than you asked for, the least-cited ones are dropped and their links removed. Source links start in the first paragraph, not only at the end, and AskMed never turns words of its own sentence into a link. When sources disagree, the answer says so and says which evidence is stronger. The same filters let you turn source types on or off (journals, guidelines, drug labels, references) and choose which kinds of studies to use: systematic reviews and meta-analyses, review articles, clinical trials, or other studies. If you attach a PDF or image, AskMed can cite your file for what the file itself says. Every other medical fact in the answer still needs a published source. ## No source, no answer When AskMed's search finds no usable medical source, or the question isn't a medical one (a greeting such as "Hey", for example), AskMed doesn't answer from memory. Instead of an AI-written answer, you get a fixed reply that was written in advance, in the app's language: it says AskMed couldn't find medical sources, explains that AskMed answers medical questions from journals, guidelines and drug labels, and asks you to rephrase it as a medical question. The same fixed reply replaces any answer that comes back citing no source at all, so an uncited answer is never shown as if it were evidence. When the sources found cover only part of a question, AskMed is instructed to say plainly that the evidence doesn't answer it, and to cite fewer sources rather than fill the gap with weak or off-topic ones. An unclear question is answered by its most likely meaning, and the first sentence says which meaning was assumed. ## No drug doses AskMed never gives medication doses, dose amounts, dose calculations, titration schedules, how often to take a drug, or patient-specific prescribing instructions. This holds for exam questions, hypothetical cases, research summaries, follow-up questions and requests to quote a drug label too, and for files you attach: AskMed names and explains the medicines in a file but doesn't repeat their strengths or schedules. A dose question isn't refused; AskMed answers the parts it can and ends with one short sentence on where exact dosing comes from. Dose numbers are also removed from the source excerpts AskMed shows: an AI rewrites them in general words, such as "a weight-based amount" or "at regular intervals", while lab values such as 126 mg/dL stay as they are. Medical device settings are not doses, so balloon catheter fill volumes, tube and airway sizes, ventilator settings and chest drain suction pressures are given with their numbers when the sources state them. You still get the rest of the answer: what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is chosen and adjusted (for kidney or liver function, age, weight or interactions), monitoring, side effects and safety. Exact dosing comes from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## Answers are AI-generated Every AskMed answer is written by an AI language model from the sources AskMed's search found, not by a doctor or an editor, and a person does not review answers before you see them. The model is told to open with a direct answer, add only the sections the question needs (such as mechanism, diagnosis or evidence quality) and end with three suggested follow-up questions. Before finishing, it checks its own draft against fixed rules: definitions stated exactly, every guideline-recommended option named in a management answer, measurements given in both unit systems where countries differ (HbA1c in % and mmol/mol, glucose in mg/dL and mmol/L), and current guidance put ahead of superseded advice. That check is done by the same AI, so it is not an independent review. AI can misread a source, miss something important or leave something out, so open the cited source before you rely on an answer. Deep Dive reports (AskMed Max) go through one more automated step after they are written: a second AI pass corrects sentences that contradict their sources, the drug label or the current guideline, and adds missing safety facts such as contraindications, boxed warnings and interactions. This step is automated too, not a human review. ## How to check an answer To check an AskMed answer, open the numbered citation that follows the sentence you plan to act on and read what the source itself says. Every claim in an AskMed answer carries its own link, so you check one sentence against one page, not the whole answer at once. The source list labels each source as a Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference, which tells you what kind of evidence it is before you open it, and AskMed is told to give the year of every guideline recommendation it states, so you can see whether it is the latest version. If a source doesn't say what the sentence says, or the answer looks wrong, tap the thumbs down under the answer and pick a reason: Inaccurate, Missing information, Sources don't match, Hard to understand or Other, with an optional note. The four checks below cover what matters most before you act on an answer. - Open the citation behind the claim you'll act on. Make sure the source says what the sentence says, for the same group of patients. A trial in adults doesn't answer a question about children. - Look at the date and the type of source. A current guideline outweighs an older review, and one small study is weaker than a meta-analysis. - Check whose guidance it is. NICE, US and European guidelines can disagree, so follow the one that applies where you practise. - Get doses from the label. Use the current prescribing information or your local formulary for amounts and schedules. ## Getting a better answer An AskMed answer is only as specific as the question. Say who the patient is (age, pregnancy, kidney or liver function), the setting (primary care, emergency or inpatient) and your country when local practice matters, because guidelines and drug approvals differ between countries. Use the drug's generic name. Ask one clear question at a time, and if the answer is broader than you need, ask again with more detail. A short follow-up such as "and in pregnancy?" is read together with your previous question and answer, so you don't need to repeat the topic, while a question on a new topic is answered on its own. You can attach a PDF or image to give AskMed the clinical context. For an exam-style multiple-choice question, paste the options: the answer's first sentence names the correct option, and the answer explains why each other option is wrong. ## Limits AskMed's limits come from what it is: an AI reference for education, built for healthcare professionals and students, that writes each answer from a search of a fixed list of medical sources. An AskMed answer can only be as complete and current as those sources, so evidence published only in journals or on sites outside that list may not appear in it. Answers are written by AI and can contain errors, which is why every claim carries a citation to check. AskMed gives no drug doses and doesn't show videos: asked for one, it explains in writing and names channels such as Osmosis, Ninja Nerd or Khan Academy Medicine for you to search yourself. The app is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic, and answers are written in the language of the question. Checking the source and applying local guidance stay with you. The specific limits are: - AskMed is for education and reference by healthcare professionals and students. It is not a substitute for your doctor or for clinical judgment. - It is not a symptom checker. It doesn't diagnose patients or decide treatment for a person. - It is not for emergencies. In an emergency, call your local emergency number. - Sources can be out of date, incomplete, or disagree with each other, and local guidelines and drug approvals differ by country. - AskMed carries no pharma advertising or sponsorship. ## Questions or a wrong answer Write to support@getaskmed.com, or tap the thumbs down under any answer in the app and say what went wrong. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/consensus-vs-elicit Title: Consensus vs Elicit vs AskMed for Medical Research Compare · Updated 11 November 2026 # Consensus vs Elicit vs AskMed for Medical Research Consensus and Elicit are two AI research tools that answer questions from published studies. Both search well over 100 million academic papers from every field, and both cite the papers behind each claim. Consensus is an AI academic search engine that answers a question with a cited synthesis and, for yes-or-no questions, a Consensus Meter. Elicit is a research assistant built around research reports and systematic reviews, with screening and data extraction. This page compares the two fairly for medical and health research, with every fact checked in November 2026 on consensus.app, elicit.com, their help centers and their app listings. It then shows where AskMed fits: an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers, which searches journals, clinical guidelines and drug labels on every question and links each claim to its source. ## Consensus vs Elicit: which is better? Consensus vs Elicit has no single winner, because the two tools are built for different research jobs. Consensus is better for fast, cited answers to a research question: it returns a synthesis of the most relevant papers, shows a Consensus Meter of how studies lean on a yes-or-no question, and has a Medical Mode that narrows the search to about 8 million papers and 50,000 clinical guidelines from the top 1,000 medical journals. Elicit is better for structured evidence work: its research reports follow a process inspired by systematic reviews, and its Systematic Review workflow, on the Pro plan and above, screens up to 5,000 papers and extracts data into tables. Consensus has an Android app; Elicit runs only in a browser. Both are designed for English and both cover every academic field. For everyday medical questions, where you need guidelines and drug labels as well as papers, AskMed is the better third option, covered below. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of both Consensus and Elicit on six features for medical questions, each checked on November 10, 2026 against consensus.app, elicit.com, both help centers, Google Play and a search of the US App Store. First, AskMed is built only for medicine, while Consensus and Elicit serve research in every academic field. Second, AskMed searches clinical guidelines on every question, while Consensus users switch to Medical Mode in the search bar and Elicit searches academic papers and US trial registrations. Third, AskMed checks FDA and DailyMed drug labels and official registries such as the EMA, which neither tool's pages state. Fourth, AskMed has native apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, while a US App Store search found no app from Consensus or Elicit. Fifth, AskMed comes in seven languages, while both tools say they are optimized or designed for English. Sixth, AskMed Pro's yearly price of $129.99 is below the cheapest yearly paid plan of either tool. Each card shows one row. ### Built only for medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ Consensus: Every academic field; Medical Mode is optional Elicit: Every academic field; clinicians not named ### Clinical guidelines on every question NICE, WHO, CDC, ESC and more AskMed: ✓ Consensus: In Medical Mode, chosen in the search bar Elicit: Not stated; academic papers and US trials ### Drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA and medicines.org.uk AskMed: ✓ Consensus: Not stated Elicit: Not stated ### iPhone and iPad app Plus Android and the web, one account AskMed: ✓ Consensus: Not on the US App Store; Android and web Elicit: Web only ### App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic AskMed: ✓ Consensus: "Optimized for English" Elicit: "Designed for use in English" ### Lowest yearly paid plan US dollars, billed yearly AskMed: Pro $129.99 Consensus: Pro $144 Elicit: Plus $132 (academic) ## What is Consensus? Consensus is an AI academic search engine from Consensus NLP that finds, ranks and summarizes peer-reviewed research. The consensus.app home page says it searches 400M+ scientific papers, and its help center describes a database of over 220 million peer-reviewed papers, updated weekly, drawn from Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Consensus's own crawl and publisher partnerships with Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Sage, AAAS, Oxford University Press and others. Consensus ranks results by study design, with randomized trials above systematic reviews and observational studies, then by citation count, journal quality and recency. Every claim is cited, and each citation shows a supporting quote from the paper. Separate checker models drop papers that aren't relevant, and retracted papers are excluded. For a yes-or-no question, the Consensus Meter sorts the top 20 papers into Yes, No, Possibly and Mixed. Filters narrow results by study design, sample size, journal rank, publish year and more. Consensus runs on the web and as an Android app called Consensus: AI for Research. For medical questions, Consensus's Medical Mode is chosen under "Search corpus" in the search bar. Its help center says Medical Mode covers about 8 million papers and 50,000 clinical guidelines from the top 1,000 medical journals, including NEJM, Cochrane Systematic Reviews, JAMA, The BMJ, Circulation and Annals of Internal Medicine, and is built for clinicians, healthcare professionals and medical researchers. Deep, Consensus's literature review mode, runs up to 20 searches, reviews over 1,000 papers and typically analyzes up to 50. Consensus's notes for AI tools say Consensus is not medical advice and does not interpret the literature for any individual case. The AskMed vs Consensus page compares the two head to head. ## What is Elicit? Elicit is an AI research assistant that finds, screens and extracts data from academic papers, and elicit.com says it helps researchers be 10x more evidence-based and is trusted by over 5 million researchers. According to Elicit's help center, Elicit searches about 138 million academic papers from Semantic Scholar, PubMed and OpenAlex, covering all disciplines and updated weekly, and it can search clinical trial registrations on ClinicalTrials.gov, which Elicit notes mainly holds trials run in or by US institutions. Elicit's research reports follow what elicit.com calls a process inspired by systematic reviews: Elicit searches, writes screening criteria, screens the papers, extracts data and writes a report with sentence-level citations. Filters narrow results by publication year, journal quartile and study type, including RCTs, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. elicit.com lists the industries it serves, including pharmaceuticals, academia and medical devices. Elicit's help center says Elicit is designed for use in English, and Elicit runs in a web browser. Elicit is open about its limits. Its help center says Elicit does not yet know how to judge whether one paper is more trustworthy than another, beyond heuristics such as citation count, journal, sample size and study type, and that it summarizes a weak study the same way as a strong one. Elicit says it has focused on empirical research, such as randomized trials in the social sciences and biomedicine. The AskMed vs Elicit page compares Elicit with AskMed in full. ## How do Consensus and Elicit differ for medical research? Consensus and Elicit differ for medical research mainly in how each one turns papers into an answer. Consensus is search first: a question returns ranked papers and a cited synthesis in seconds, the Consensus Meter shows how studies lean, and Medical Mode limits the search to top medical journals and clinical guidelines. Elicit is workflow first: a question becomes a report or a systematic review with screening criteria, extraction columns and tables that you can edit on the Pro plan and above. Elicit also searches clinical trial registrations, which Consensus's pages don't state. On evidence quality, Consensus ranks by study design and journal quality, while Elicit's help center says it doesn't yet judge which paper is more trustworthy and offers filters instead. Both cite each claim, both index Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex, both are designed for English, and neither names drug labels as a source. The table sets the two side by side, with no row chosen to favor either. Feature | Consensus | Elicit What it is In its own words | AI academic search engine for peer-reviewed literature | AI research assistant; "10x more evidence-based" Papers searched All fields | 400M+ (home page); over 220 million peer-reviewed (help center) | About 138 million Medical subset Search limited to medicine | Medical Mode: about 8 million papers and 50,000 clinical guidelines | Not stated Clinical trial registrations ClinicalTrials.gov | Not stated | Yes, mainly US trials Evidence meter How studies lean on a yes-or-no question | Consensus Meter, from the top 20 papers | Not stated Long literature review One question, many papers | Deep: typically up to 50 papers | Reports; up to 1,000 papers found Systematic review workflow Screening and extraction | Not stated | Pro and above; Pro screens 5,000 papers Ranks by study quality Built into results | Study design, citations, journal quality, recency | Filters; doesn't yet judge trustworthiness Apps Beyond the web | Android | Web only Cheapest yearly paid plan US dollars | Pro $144 | Plus $132 (academic) ## Which is better for systematic reviews? Elicit is the better of the two for systematic reviews, because Elicit is the one with a dedicated Systematic Review workflow. Elicit's help center describes the steps: a Setup page where you enter the research question and context such as PICO definitions and inclusion criteria, a Gather stage that searches Elicit's database or takes uploaded papers, screening by title and abstract, optional full-text screening, data extraction into columns, and a final report. The workflow comes with Elicit Pro, Scale and Enterprise; Elicit's pricing page says Pro can screen 5,000 papers and Enterprise 40,000. Consensus is built for a different step. Its Deep mode writes a structured literature review from up to 50 papers, sometimes 100, and Consensus's own notes say the Consensus Meter is a heuristic, not a formal meta-analysis. A published Cochrane-style review still reports its own search in MEDLINE, Embase and CENTRAL. The best AI for medical literature search guide covers that search. ## Consensus vs Elicit vs SciSpace SciSpace is the third AI research tool that often comes up next to Consensus and Elicit. SciSpace's home page calls it AI for scientific research, says it runs literature reviews on 280M+ papers, and says it is trusted by 11 million+ researchers worldwide. Where Consensus is centered on cited search with a Medical Mode, and Elicit on reports and systematic reviews, SciSpace bundles many academic tools in one platform, including chat with PDF, a literature review tool, an AI writer and a citation generator. Like Consensus and Elicit, SciSpace covers every academic field rather than medicine alone. For a student writing a thesis, SciSpace's writing tools may matter most; for a clinician who needs a cited answer, all three are research tools first, not clinical references. The AskMed vs SciSpace page compares SciSpace with AskMed in detail, including its apps, its sources and its prices, each checked on SciSpace's own pages. ## How much do Consensus and Elicit cost? Consensus and Elicit both publish their paid plans on their own sites, and both are cheaper per month when billed yearly. These yearly prices are in US dollars per user, checked on November 10, 2026. Consensus's help center lists Consensus Pro at $144 a year, with unlimited Pro messages and 15 Deep reviews a month, and Consensus Deep at $540 a year, with 200 Deep reviews a month; Teams and Enterprise prices are custom. Elicit's pricing page has two lists. On the academic list, Elicit Plus costs $132 a year, Elicit Pro, the plan Elicit labels for systematic reviews, costs $468, and Elicit Scale, labeled for collaboration, costs $1,068. On the industry list, Elicit Pro costs $588 a year and Elicit Scale $2,748; Enterprise is custom. AskMed Pro costs $129.99 a year, with one account for iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, which is below the cheapest yearly paid plan of either Consensus or Elicit. AskMed Pro $129.99/year - Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels - Research Mode for evidence questions - Source filters, PDF and image attachments - iPhone, iPad, Android and web Consensus paid plans $144 to $540 a year - Pro $144/year: unlimited Pro messages, 15 Deep reviews a month - Deep $540/year: 200 Deep reviews a month - Teams and Enterprise: custom Elicit paid plans $132 to $2,748 a year - Academic: Plus $132, Pro $468, Scale $1,068 a year - Industry: Pro $588, Scale $2,748 a year - Systematic Review workflow from Pro; Enterprise custom AskMed Pro · $129.99 Elicit Plus, academic · $132 Consensus Pro · $144 Elicit Pro, academic · $468 Consensus Deep · $540 Elicit Pro, industry · $588 Elicit Scale, academic · $1,068 Elicit Scale, industry · $2,748 Yearly price per user in US dollars, billed yearly. Consensus prices from its help center's Subscription Plans page, Elicit prices from elicit.com/pricing, both checked November 10, 2026. ## Why AskMed is the better third option for medical questions AskMed is the better third option for medical questions because AskMed is a medical reference, not a general research tool, so the sources a clinician needs are searched on every question. Before any answer is written, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources: PubMed and PubMed Central, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ECDC, ESC and KDIGO; FDA and DailyMed drug labels, plus registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed prefers guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and sources from the last 10 years. Every claim links to its source. If AskMed finds no usable source, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. AskMed never gives drug doses. AskMed is built for doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers, in seven languages, worldwide. For evidence questions such as "Does antibiotic timing matter in sepsis?", AskMed's Research Mode finds studies, ranks study quality and summarizes the evidence, reading the most relevant source in full. The answer names the key trials, meta-analyses and guideline positions and says where the evidence is weak or conflicting. Source filters set study types, such as meta-analyses only, and 3 to 12 sources per answer. Research Mode is a fast, cited summary, not a systematic review: for a formal review with screening of thousands of papers, Elicit's workflow is the tool built for it, and AskMed helps you scope the question first. How AskMed answers explains the sources and limits in full. ## Bottom line Consensus vs Elicit comes down to the job. Pick Consensus for quick, cited answers from the research literature, a Consensus Meter on yes-or-no questions and a Medical Mode limited to top medical journals and clinical guidelines; it costs $144 a year for Pro. Pick Elicit for research reports and, on Pro and above, a full Systematic Review workflow with screening and extraction; academic plans start at $132 a year and Pro costs $468. Both cover every academic field, both are designed for English, and neither names drug labels as a source. For the medical questions that doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers ask every day, AskMed is the better third option: it searches journals, clinical guidelines and FDA and EMA drug labels on every question, cites every claim, works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web in seven languages, and AskMed Pro costs $129.99 a year, less than either tool's cheapest yearly paid plan. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is Consensus or Elicit better for medical research? It depends on the task. Consensus is better for fast cited answers and has a Medical Mode of about 8 million papers and 50,000 clinical guidelines from top medical journals. Elicit is better for reports and systematic reviews with screening and data extraction. For everyday medical questions that need guidelines and drug labels, AskMed is built for medicine. Q: Does Consensus or Elicit have an iPhone app? We found neither on the US App Store in November 2026. Consensus has an Android app, Consensus: AI for Research, on Google Play, and its help center suggests adding the website to the iPhone home screen. Elicit runs in a web browser. AskMed has apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, and the same account works on the web. Q: Which is cheaper, Consensus or Elicit? Billed yearly, Elicit Plus on the academic list costs $132 a year and Consensus Pro costs $144 a year. Elicit Pro, which includes the Systematic Review workflow, costs $468 a year for academics and $588 for industry, and Consensus Deep costs $540 a year. AskMed Pro costs $129.99 a year. Q: Can Elicit do a systematic review? Elicit's Systematic Review workflow, on the Pro, Scale and Enterprise plans, covers setup, gathering papers, title and abstract screening, optional full-text screening, data extraction and a report. Elicit's pricing page says Pro can screen 5,000 papers. A published review still needs a reported search in databases such as MEDLINE and Embase. Q: What is Consensus Medical Mode? Medical Mode is a search setting in Consensus that limits results to about 8 million papers and 50,000 clinical guidelines from the top 1,000 medical journals. You choose it under "Search corpus" in the search bar. AskMed searches medical sources on every question, with no mode to switch on. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Consensus | Elicit Built only for medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | Every academic field; Medical Mode is optional | Every academic field; clinicians not named Clinical guidelines on every question NICE, WHO, CDC, ESC and more | ✓ | In Medical Mode, chosen in the search bar | Not stated; academic papers and US trials Drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA and medicines.org.uk | ✓ | Not stated | Not stated iPhone and iPad app Plus Android and the web, one account | ✓ | Not on the US App Store; Android and web | Web only App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic | ✓ | "Optimized for English" | "Designed for use in English" Lowest yearly paid plan US dollars, billed yearly | Pro $129.99 | Pro $144 | Plus $132 (academic) ## References - Consensus website, consensus.app, and its notes for AI tools (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - Subscription Plans, Consensus Help Center, September 12, 2026 (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - Medical Mode and Consensus Research Database, Consensus Help Center (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - How to use Deep review and The Consensus Meter, Consensus Help Center (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - Consensus: AI for Research, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - Elicit website, elicit.com, and Elicit pricing (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - Elicit's source for papers and Elicit's limitations, Elicit Help Center (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - Systematic Reviews in Elicit and Languages other than English, Elicit Help Center (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - SciSpace website, scispace.com (accessed Nov 10, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/is-openevidence-accurate Title: Is OpenEvidence Accurate? What the Studies Found # Is OpenEvidence Accurate? What the Studies Found Updated 11 November 2026 OpenEvidence is accurate on most clinical questions in published tests, and its references are real, but it still makes errors, and published studies disagree on how it compares with general AI chatbots. OpenEvidence's own announcements report a perfect score on a public USMLE sample exam. Independent researchers found high-quality answers in several specialties, no fabricated references among almost 5,000 checked, and also incomplete answers, lower scores than frontier chatbots on one set of benchmarks, and weaker results on drug information questions. Below: what OpenEvidence is built on, what it claims, what the studies found, how to check an answer, and how AskMed, an AI medical reference for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers, answers. - OpenEvidence's own claim 100% on the public USMLE sample exam, text-only questions, run by OpenEvidence (2025) - Independent benchmark 89.6% on 500 MedQA questions, below three frontier chatbots (Nature Medicine, 2026) - References No fabricated reference among 4,979 citations checked (npj Health Systems, 2026) - Specialty tests Mostly high-quality answers, with gaps in completeness, drug information and pediatric evidence (2026) ## What is OpenEvidence built on? OpenEvidence is an AI medical search engine from OpenEvidence Inc. that writes cited answers to clinical questions for verified healthcare professionals. Its US App Store listing says answers are "sourced, cited, and grounded in peer-reviewed medical literature", with every claim cited, drawing on more than 35 million peer-reviewed papers, more than 300 medical journals, and FDA and CDC sources. The listing names NEJM, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, NCCN, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley as official partners, and adds licensed full text from several of them plus content agreements with societies such as the AAFP, ACC, ADA, AAP and ACOG. Since July 2026, a feature called EvidenceGrade rates the strength of the evidence behind each answer, building on the GRADE framework. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is for educational and informational purposes only and does not substitute for clinical judgment. The base language models behind OpenEvidence are not public, as the authors of a 2026 Nature Medicine study note. In September 2026 it released its own model family: Osler, the default for fast answers; Sackett, a deeper search model; and Snow, which writes longer reports. ## What does OpenEvidence say about its own accuracy? OpenEvidence reports its accuracy mainly through exam benchmarks that the company ran itself. On July 14, 2023, OpenEvidence announced that its AI was the first to score above 90% on the USMLE, measured on the official 2022 sample exam. On August 15, 2025, it announced a perfect 100% on the USMLE. Its methods section says the test used the sample-exam questions published by Kung and colleagues in 2023, left out every question that contains an image, fixed one recording error in that dataset, and scored one Step 3 question by OpenEvidence's answer instead of the official key, after seven psychiatrists reviewed it and agreed with OpenEvidence. On September 3, 2026, OpenEvidence said a new research model, Darwin, scored 100% on MedQA, 72.8% on MedXpertQA, 82.7% on HealthBench Professional and 87.2% on NOHARM. Darwin is in research preview, available by application only, so it is not the model clinicians use day to day. All three results come from OpenEvidence's own announcements, not from independent tests, and a licensing-exam question gives every relevant fact in a clean vignette with one best answer, which real clinical questions rarely do. ## What did independent studies find? The largest independent test of OpenEvidence so far found it accurate, but behind three general chatbots. Vishwanath and colleagues at NYU Langone ( Nature Medicine, 2026) queried OpenEvidence through its website in September 2025 and February 2026 and compared it with UpToDate Expert AI, GPT-5.2, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Opus 4.6. On 500 MedQA exam questions, OpenEvidence scored 89.6%, against 97.4% for Gemini, 94.2% for GPT-5.2, 90.2% for Claude and 88.4% for UpToDate Expert AI. On 100 real questions that physicians had asked an AI during care, 12 blinded clinicians gave OpenEvidence a mean of 3.24 on a 4-point scale, against 3.62 for Gemini. OpenEvidence scored lowest on clarity, and the authors wrote that its weakness was communication, not knowledge. Harmful content and hallucinations did not differ significantly between the six systems tested. The authors call their results a snapshot of fast-changing tools, and they did not assess citation quality. A second study reached the opposite ranking. Feng and colleagues ( arXiv preprint, June 2026, not peer reviewed) had 149 US physicians compare blinded answers to 620 real questions asked on OpenEvidence, and physicians preferred OpenEvidence over Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-5.5 on accuracy, clinical utility, source quality, verifiability and completeness. The paper states that none of its authors is affiliated with OpenEvidence, but that OpenEvidence co-developed the data collection plan, carried out the data collection and paid the physicians who rated the answers. ## Does OpenEvidence make up references? Studies so far have found that OpenEvidence's references are real, which sets it apart from chatbots that cite from memory. Lotan and colleagues ( npj Health Systems, 2026) sent OpenEvidence 150 standard prompts across five specialties and checked all 4,979 citations it returned: none was confirmed as fabricated, three abstracts had attribution errors, and most references were recent and from high-impact journals. That study checked whether each reference exists, not whether it supports the sentence it is attached to. Hunter and colleagues ( Hospital Pediatrics, 2026) did check support: across 17 guideline-based questions in six pediatric subspecialties, 88.2% of answers were rated as highly substantiated by their citations, and OpenEvidence cited the main guideline for 15 of the 17 questions. But 35.3% of answers cited studies that were not specific to children, so a real paper can still describe the wrong patients. Real references are the starting point for checking an answer, not proof that it is right. The same study rated answer quality at a median of 27 out of 30, and 6 of the 17 answers carried some potential for harm, none above 3 on the study's 7-point harm scale. ## Where do OpenEvidence answers fall short? OpenEvidence answers fall short most often on completeness, drug information and nuanced decisions, according to specialty studies published in 2026. Meyer and colleagues ( American Surgeon, 2026) tested 138 rectal cancer scenarios built from the NCCN guidelines: OpenEvidence's answers were rated correct in 92.8% and accurate in 81.2%, against 98.6% and 84.1% for ChatGPT-5, and the authors found both tools limited in completeness, nuance and preference-sensitive decisions. In a pharmacy study by Issa and colleagues ( American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2026), OpenEvidence answered 40% of 20 drug information questions accurately, against 70% for ChatGPT 5.1, though its answers had the highest overall quality score of the AI tools. Stephenson and colleagues at Mayo Clinic ( Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, 2026) found OpenEvidence's 125 fatty liver e-consults rated higher than specialists' own, yet 12 contained minor errors and one a potentially major error. In a triage test by Jia and colleagues ( International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2026), OpenEvidence was correct in 71.3% of clear cases that it answered, under-triaged 12.5% of emergencies and over-triaged 68.0% of cases that could be managed at home. Its errors leaned toward caution. ## What limits do all AI answer engines share? AI answer engines such as OpenEvidence share limits that come from how they work, whatever their sources. An answer engine first retrieves documents, then a language model writes a summary of them, and both steps can go wrong. The Nature Medicine authors point to evidence that retrieval can lower performance when irrelevant material is retrieved or poorly integrated by the model. Even with real sources, a sentence can say more than its source does: Wu and colleagues ( Nature Communications, 2025) tested seven popular models on 800 medical questions and found that 50% to 90% of responses were not fully supported, and sometimes contradicted, by the sources they cited; even for GPT-4o with web search, about 30% of individual statements were unsupported. That study did not test OpenEvidence. Answer engines also change often: OpenEvidence released a new default model, Osler, in September 2026, after the Nature Medicine and pharmacy studies had collected their answers, so published figures may not describe the current version. Finally, a fluent, well-cited answer reads with the same confidence whether it is complete or not. Checking the source behind the claim you act on is the only reliable safeguard. ## How can you check an OpenEvidence answer? You can check an OpenEvidence answer, or one from any AI tool, in a few minutes with the same five steps. First, open the citation behind the specific sentence you plan to act on, and confirm that the source says what the sentence says; a real reference can still be attached to a claim it doesn't support. Second, check that the source studied the same patients: the pediatric study above found that about a third of answers cited studies that were not specific to children. Third, check the date and the type of evidence, because a current guideline outweighs an older review and one small study is weaker than a meta-analysis; OpenEvidence's EvidenceGrade rating helps here, but read the source too. Fourth, check whose guidance it is, since NICE, US and European guidelines can differ. Fifth, take any drug dose from the current prescribing information or your local formulary, never from an AI summary. - Open the citation. Read the sentence in the source itself. - Match the patients. Adults, children, pregnancy and kidney function change the answer. - Check the date and type. Newest guideline first, then systematic reviews, then single studies. - Check whose guidance. Follow the guideline that applies where you practise. - Take doses from the label. Use the current prescribing information. The same five checks work for OpenEvidence, AskMed, ChatGPT or any other AI tool. For what studies found about general chatbots, see Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? ## How does AskMed answer differently? AskMed is built so that every claim can be checked, and so that anyone in medicine can use it. Before any answer is written, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, WHO, CDC, ESC and KDIGO; FDA and DailyMed drug labels, plus registries such as the EMA for local brand names; and references such as StatPearls and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed does not search the open web, forums or social media. Each claim is followed by a link to its source, from 8 sources by default, and source filters let you choose source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources. If no usable source turns up, AskMed shows a fixed reply saying so instead of answering from memory. AskMed never gives drug doses, works worldwide with no NPI or license number, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. AskMed's answers are written by AI too, with no human review before you see them, so AskMed can also misread a source; the point is that each sentence carries a link you can open. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say it is not available in the UK, the EU or the EEA, and its registration asks for an NPI or other licensing number. For the side-by-side detail, see AskMed vs OpenEvidence and OpenEvidence alternatives; for every source and limit, see How AskMed answers. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is OpenEvidence accurate? Mostly, but not always. Independent studies found high-quality answers in several specialties and no fabricated references among 4,979 citations checked, but also incomplete answers, 40% accuracy on a small set of drug information questions, and lower benchmark scores than three frontier chatbots in a 2026 Nature Medicine study. Use OpenEvidence as a starting point and open the source behind any claim you act on. Q: Did OpenEvidence really score 100% on the USMLE? OpenEvidence reports that it did, in an August 2025 announcement. The test used the public USMLE sample-exam questions from a 2023 study, without the questions that contain images, and counted one Step 3 question by OpenEvidence's answer rather than the official key. The result was run by OpenEvidence and hasn't been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Q: Does OpenEvidence hallucinate? Less than general chatbots do with references: a 2026 study found no fabricated reference among 4,979 OpenEvidence citations. In the 2026 Nature Medicine study, OpenEvidence's rate of hallucinated content did not differ significantly from that of the other five systems tested. A real reference can still be attached to a claim it doesn't fully support, so open it. Q: Is OpenEvidence more accurate than ChatGPT? The studies disagree. A peer-reviewed 2026 Nature Medicine study ranked GPT-5.2, Gemini and Claude above OpenEvidence, while a 2026 preprint whose data collection OpenEvidence ran and paid for found physicians preferred OpenEvidence's answers. Single-specialty studies also split. For more, see OpenEvidence vs ChatGPT for Clinicians vs AskMed. Q: Can AskMed be wrong? Yes. AskMed's answers are written by AI, so check the linked source behind any claim you act on, and tap the thumbs down under an answer to report an error. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions. It still explains a drug's uses, how dosing is chosen and adjusted, monitoring and side effects. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/openevidence-vs-uptodate Title: OpenEvidence vs UpToDate Expert AI vs AskMed Compare · updated 11 November 2026 # OpenEvidence vs UpToDate Expert AI vs AskMed OpenEvidence and UpToDate both help clinicians answer questions at the point of care, and both now answer in an AI chat. OpenEvidence is an AI medical search engine for verified healthcare professionals that cites peer-reviewed papers, with official content partners such as NEJM, JAMA and the NCCN. UpToDate is the clinical reference from Wolters Kluwer, written by clinician authors, and UpToDate Expert AI, announced in September 2025, answers questions in a chat from UpToDate's own content. This page compares OpenEvidence and UpToDate on where their answers come from, who can sign up, where they work and what they cost. It then shows AskMed as a third option: an AI medical reference from Loop Studio for doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers, which searches journals, guidelines and drug labels for each question, links every claim to its source and works in any country with no NPI. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of both OpenEvidence and UpToDate on five features, each checked in November 2026 against OpenEvidence's Terms of Use and App Store listing and against Wolters Kluwer's UpToDate pages and the US App Store listings of the UpToDate and UpToDate Expert AI apps. First, anyone in medicine can get AskMed in any country with no NPI, while OpenEvidence asks for an NPI or another professional licensing number and is not available in the UK, the EU or the EEA, and the personal plans that include UpToDate Expert AI are sold in the US and Canada. Second, AskMed's source filters let you choose source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources for each question. Third, AskMed checks official drug registries outside the US, such as the EMA. Fourth, AskMed carries no pharma advertising, while OpenEvidence's App Store listing says the app contains advertising. Fifth, AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams. Each card below shows one row. ### Personal access in any country No NPI, US license or institution needed AskMed: Worldwide OpenEvidence: NPI or other license; not in the UK, EU or EEA UpToDate Expert AI: Personal plans in the US and Canada ### Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: Not stated UpToDate Expert AI: Not stated ### Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: Not stated UpToDate Expert AI: Lexidrug drug topics ### No pharma advertising No sponsored answers AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: App Store: "Contains Advertising" UpToDate Expert AI: Not stated ### Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams OpenEvidence: Not stated UpToDate Expert AI: Not stated ## What is the difference between OpenEvidence and UpToDate? OpenEvidence and UpToDate differ first in how an answer is made. OpenEvidence is an AI medical search engine: its App Store listing says it answers clinical questions with every claim cited to its source, drawing on more than 35 million peer-reviewed papers, more than 300 medical journals and FDA and CDC sources, with licensed full text from NEJM, JAMA, Nature and Cochrane. OpenEvidence names NEJM, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, the NCCN, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley as official AI partners. UpToDate, from Wolters Kluwer, is a clinical reference of clinician-authored topics with graded recommendations, algorithms, graphics and videos, plus drug monographs, interaction analysis, more than 200 clinical calculators and patient education leaflets in up to 19 languages; its App Store listing says more than 3 million healthcare professionals trust it. In short, OpenEvidence searches the literature for the question you ask, while UpToDate gives you what its authors and editors have already written and keep updated. At a glance | OpenEvidence | UpToDate Made by | OpenEvidence Inc. | Wolters Kluwer What it is | AI medical search engine | Clinician-authored clinical reference AI answers from | Peer-reviewed papers and partner content | UpToDate content only (Expert AI) Evidence strength | EvidenceGrade: A to D, or U | Graded recommendations Drug information | FDA sources | Lexidrug drug topics Who can sign up | Verified healthcare professionals | Individuals and institutions Personal AI access | Not in the UK, EU or EEA | Expert AI plans: US and Canada For other options built around each product, see our guides to OpenEvidence alternatives and UpToDate alternatives. ## OpenEvidence vs UpToDate Expert AI: how do the AI answers differ? OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI both answer clinical questions in a chat, but they draw on different libraries. UpToDate Expert AI, which Wolters Kluwer announced on September 24, 2025, draws only from UpToDate content, according to Wolters Kluwer, and links each answer back to the UpToDate topics it used; in November 2025 Wolters Kluwer added about 3,000 drug topics from UpToDate Lexidrug, written by pharmacists and clinical experts. OpenEvidence answers from the peer-reviewed literature and the partner content it licenses, and since July 2026 its EvidenceGrade feature gives each answer a letter grade from A to D for the strength of the cited evidence, or U when no retrieved paper can be graded. OpenEvidence also lists Visits for ambient documentation, Dialer for secure patient calls, Voice Mode, and CME and MOC credits earned by asking questions. Wolters Kluwer reported in August 2026 that about 2,500 US hospitals and health systems use UpToDate Expert AI, which can be embedded in electronic health records. So the choice between the two AI features is mostly a choice of library: an editor-curated reference with UpToDate Expert AI, or a search across licensed journals with OpenEvidence. Our head-to-head pages cover each one against AskMed in more depth: AskMed vs OpenEvidence and AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI. ## Who can use OpenEvidence and UpToDate? OpenEvidence and UpToDate both limit who can get their AI answers, in different ways. OpenEvidence's App Store listing says OpenEvidence is available only to healthcare professionals, who must verify their status before using it, and its opening line reads "NPI Required". OpenEvidence's Terms of Use, last updated September 17, 2026, ask for a National Provider Identifier or, as applicable, another professional licensing number, and say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area or any country under a US trade embargo. Since September 2026, Canadian physicians can verify with their MINC number. UpToDate is sold to individuals and to institutions, but Wolters Kluwer sells the personal plans that include UpToDate Expert AI, UpToDate Pro Plus and the trainee subscription, in the United States and Canada; elsewhere, clinicians reach Expert AI through select UpToDate Enterprise Edition accounts. AskMed works worldwide and needs no NPI, license or institution, for doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists and researchers alike. ## What do OpenEvidence and UpToDate cost? UpToDate is a paid subscription, and Wolters Kluwer lists its personal prices on its UpToDate Pro page as starting prices per year. Standard UpToDate starts at $579 a year, and UpToDate Pro Plus, the professional package that features UpToDate Expert AI and is sold in the United States and Canada, starts at $699 a year. Residents, fellows and students can buy the UpToDate trainee subscription, listed from $219 a year, which includes UpToDate Expert AI in the United States and Canada. The separate UpToDate Expert AI app on the US App Store lists one in-app purchase, a subscription at $89.00, without a billing period, and the app needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. OpenEvidence sells no personal subscription: access depends on verifying as a healthcare professional, and its App Store listing says the app contains advertising. AskMed Pro costs $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year, with one account for iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. AskMed Pro $24.99/month or $129.99/year - Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels - Research Mode, up to 20 papers - Source filters, PDF and image attachments - iPhone, iPad, Android and web UpToDate From $219 to $699 a year - UpToDate: $579/year starting price - UpToDate Pro Plus with Expert AI: $699/year starting price - Trainee subscription: $219/year starting price, Expert AI in the US and Canada - UpToDate Expert AI app, US App Store: IAP Subscription $89.00, billing period not shown AskMed Pro · $129.99 UpToDate trainee · $219 UpToDate · $579 UpToDate Pro Plus · $699 Yearly price in US dollars for a personal plan. UpToDate prices are the starting prices on Wolters Kluwer's UpToDate Pro page, checked November 2026. ## Why is AskMed the better third option? AskMed is the better third option for most people in medicine because AskMed answers each question from journals, guidelines and drug labels at once, cites every claim, and works in any country without an NPI. Before writing, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources: PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC and ECDC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels, plus official registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk for local brand names; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and links every claim to its source's exact web address. Source filters let you turn source types on or off, pick study types and set 3 to 12 sources. If AskMed finds no usable source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase instead of answering from memory. Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question, and Exam Prep covers PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, with an explanation for every option. AskMed answers in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic, carries no pharma advertising and never gives drug doses; exact amounts come from the current label. How AskMed answers explains the sources, citations and limits in full. ## Which should you choose: OpenEvidence, UpToDate or AskMed? Choosing between OpenEvidence, UpToDate and AskMed comes down to where you work, what you want answers drawn from and how much control you want over the evidence. UpToDate suits clinicians whose hospital already provides it and who want answers from one expert-edited reference; UpToDate Expert AI then summarizes those topics, and personal plans start at $579 a year, or $699 a year for UpToDate Pro Plus with Expert AI in the US and Canada. OpenEvidence suits verified clinicians in the US who want AI search across NEJM, JAMA and other licensed literature, with evidence grades, in an app whose App Store listing says it contains advertising. AskMed suits anyone who works or studies in medicine in any country, needs no NPI, and wants to choose the evidence behind an answer with source filters, read official drug labels and registries such as the EMA, and practice for one of 10 licensing exams in the same app. ## Bottom line AskMed is the strongest all-round pick of the three for people who work or study in medicine. OpenEvidence and UpToDate are both serious clinical tools, and each now answers in an AI chat with sources: OpenEvidence searches licensed journals and grades the evidence, and UpToDate Expert AI summarizes UpToDate's clinician-authored topics and Lexidrug drug content. Both are built around particular markets, though: OpenEvidence asks for an NPI or other professional licensing number and is not available in the UK, the EU or the EEA, and the personal plans that include UpToDate Expert AI are sold in the US and Canada, from $219 a year for trainees to $699 a year for UpToDate Pro Plus. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account and no NPI, searches journals, guidelines and drug labels for each question, lets you set source filters, checks registries such as the EMA, adds Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, and carries no pharma advertising. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is OpenEvidence better than UpToDate? They do different jobs. OpenEvidence is an AI search engine that answers from peer-reviewed papers and partner journals such as NEJM and JAMA, while UpToDate is a clinician-authored reference whose Expert AI answers only from UpToDate content. OpenEvidence needs verification as a healthcare professional; UpToDate is a paid subscription. AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels for each question and works in any country. Q: What is the difference between OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI? UpToDate Expert AI, from Wolters Kluwer, draws only from UpToDate content, including about 3,000 Lexidrug drug topics, and links answers to UpToDate topics. OpenEvidence searches more than 35 million peer-reviewed papers plus FDA and CDC sources, cites every claim, and grades the evidence with EvidenceGrade. Q: Can I use OpenEvidence or UpToDate Expert AI outside the US? OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say it is not available in the EU, the UK or the EEA, and registration asks for an NPI or other professional licensing number; Canadian physicians can verify with a MINC number. Personal plans with UpToDate Expert AI are sold in the US and Canada, and select UpToDate Enterprise Edition accounts include it elsewhere. AskMed works worldwide with no NPI. Q: How much does UpToDate cost? Wolters Kluwer lists standard UpToDate from $579 a year, UpToDate Pro Plus with Expert AI from $699 a year, and the trainee subscription from $219 a year. AskMed Pro costs $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year. Q: Does UpToDate Expert AI search PubMed? No. Wolters Kluwer says UpToDate Expert AI draws only from UpToDate content rather than the open web. AskMed searches PubMed and the Cochrane Library, guidelines such as NICE and WHO, and official drug labels, and UpToDate is not among the sources AskMed searches. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source; exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | OpenEvidence | UpToDate Expert AI Personal access in any country No NPI, US license or institution needed | Worldwide | NPI or other license; not in the UK, EU or EEA | Personal plans in the US and Canada Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated | Not stated Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names | ✓ | Not stated | Lexidrug drug topics No pharma advertising No sponsored answers | ✓ | App Store: "Contains Advertising" | Not stated Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated | Not stated ## References - OpenEvidence, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - OpenEvidence Terms of Use, last updated September 17, 2026 (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - OpenEvidence launches EvidenceGrade, openevidence.com, July 2026 - OpenEvidence announcements (MINC#NIMC partnership for Canadian physicians, September 11, 2026), openevidence.com (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - UpToDate Expert AI announcement, Wolters Kluwer, September 24, 2025 - Wolters Kluwer adds UpToDate Lexidrug drug information to UpToDate Expert AI, Wolters Kluwer, November 2025 - Health system adoption of UpToDate Expert AI reaching 2,500 US hospitals and health systems, Wolters Kluwer, August 6, 2026 - UpToDate Expert AI, wolterskluwer.com (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - UpToDate for health professionals, with prices, wolterskluwer.com (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - UpToDate Pro Plus, wolterskluwer.com (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - UpToDate, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 10, 2026) - UpToDate Expert AI, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 10, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-clinicalkey-ai Title: AskMed vs ClinicalKey AI: Review, App and Cost Compare · Updated 10 November 2026 # AskMed vs ClinicalKey AI AskMed and ClinicalKey AI both answer clinical questions in plain language with citations to published evidence. ClinicalKey AI is Elsevier's generative AI clinical decision support tool: Elsevier says ClinicalKey AI combines evidence-based content, such as society guidelines, journals including The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine, and reference texts such as Goldman-Cecil Medicine, with conversational search. ClinicalKey AI runs on the web and in apps for iPhone and Android, and the app needs an institutional or individual ClinicalKey AI subscription. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to its source. This review compares the two on who can use them, price, countries, sources you control, drug registries, exam prep, devices and languages. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of ClinicalKey AI on nine features, each checked in November 2026 against Elsevier's ClinicalKey AI product page, its subscription page and the ClinicalKey AI listings on the App Store and Google Play. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, researchers included, while the ClinicalKey AI App Store listing names licensed clinicians, plus residents and medical students who work under a licensed practitioner's supervision. Second, AskMed Pro costs less than an individual ClinicalKey AI plan, by the month and by the year. Third, AskMed works in any country, while Elsevier sells individual plans in listed countries. Fourth, AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams. Fifth, AskMed's source filters let you choose source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources. Sixth, AskMed checks official drug registries outside the US, such as the EMA. Seventh, AskMed says so when it finds no source. Eighth, AskMed has an iPad app. Ninth, the AskMed app comes in seven languages. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: No license needed ClinicalKey AI: Licensed clinicians; students and residents under supervision (App Store); researchers not named ### Lower individual price Personal plan, US dollars AskMed: $24.99/month or $129.99/year ClinicalKey AI: US $39/month or US $349/year ### Individual plan in any country No country list, no license number AskMed: ✓ ClinicalKey AI: Listed countries; others register interest ### Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams ClinicalKey AI: Not stated ### Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ ClinicalKey AI: Not stated ### Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names AskMed: ✓ ClinicalKey AI: Elsevier: drug information may not align outside the US ### Says so when no source is found No answers from memory AskMed: ✓ ClinicalKey AI: Not stated ### iPad app One account on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web AskMed: ✓ ClinicalKey AI: App Store: "Only for iPhone" ### App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic AskMed: ✓ ClinicalKey AI: English only (App Store and Google Play) ## What is ClinicalKey AI? ClinicalKey AI is a clinical decision support tool from Elsevier that answers clinical questions asked in natural language, with citations linked to the published evidence behind each answer. Elsevier's FAQ says ClinicalKey AI uses retrieval-augmented generation: a search of Elsevier's content database finds the most relevant documents, and large language models summarize them for clinical decision-making. Elsevier describes the content as copyright-cleared and lists society guidelines from groups such as ACC, AACE, ACEP, CHEST and ESMO; journals such as The Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine and 13 JAMA Network journals in full text; reference texts such as Braunwald's and Goldman-Cecil Medicine; and clinical overviews and drug information. In a February 2026 press release, Elsevier said ClinicalKey AI answers draw on full-text articles from more than 1,000 medical journals and that its content is updated every 24 hours. ClinicalKey AI runs on the web, inside Epic through an integration Elsevier announced in March 2025, and in apps for iPhone and Android. ## ClinicalKey AI review: strengths and limits A fair ClinicalKey AI review starts with what Elsevier has built well: ClinicalKey AI answers from a large, copyright-cleared library of full text. Elsevier says ClinicalKey AI draws on more than 1,000 medical journals, refreshes its content every 24 hours and traces each answer to the exact paragraph it was cited from. Elsevier also describes a clinician-in-the-loop evaluation, with licensed clinicians reviewing responses for accuracy and bias each quarter and before major releases, a Deep Research mode for structured, citation-rich evidence syntheses, and CME and MOC credits earned on the platform. For hospitals, ClinicalKey AI offers single sign-on from the EHR through SMART on FHIR, an Epic integration and API access. The limits come from Elsevier's own pages and listings: a subscription is required, individual plans are sold in listed countries, the App Store listing doesn't include iPad, the app is English only, and Elsevier's pages don't mention exam question banks or user-set source filters. ## How much does ClinicalKey AI cost? Elsevier publishes individual prices for ClinicalKey AI on its subscription page: US $39 a month, billed monthly, or US $349 a year, billed annually. Elsevier says individual ClinicalKey AI subscriptions are sold in a listed set of countries, and asks people in other countries to register their interest. Hospitals and other institutions request access through Elsevier, and Elsevier's pages don't publish an institutional price. The ClinicalKey AI app on the US App Store lists no in-app purchases, and the app needs an existing institutional or individual ClinicalKey AI subscription bought from Elsevier. AskMed Pro costs $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year, with one account for iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, and AskMed works in any country. By the year, AskMed Pro costs $219.01 less than the individual ClinicalKey AI plan; by the month, AskMed Pro costs $14.01 less. Both prices below are list prices in US dollars, checked in November 2026. AskMed Pro $24.99/month or $129.99/year - Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels - Research Mode, up to 20 papers - Source filters, PDF and image attachments - iPhone, iPad, Android and web, in any country ClinicalKey AI individual US $39/month or US $349/year - Individual plans sold in listed countries - Institutional price: Not stated - US App Store app: subscription required, no in-app purchases listed - CME and MOC credits to select boards AskMed Pro · $129.99 ClinicalKey AI · $349 Yearly price in US dollars for a personal plan. The ClinicalKey AI price is the individual annual plan on Elsevier's subscription page, checked November 2026. ## The ClinicalKey AI app on iPhone and Android The ClinicalKey AI app is Elsevier's mobile version of ClinicalKey AI, listed by Elsevier Inc. on the US App Store and on Google Play, and both listings say an existing institutional or individual ClinicalKey AI subscription is required to use it. The listings describe AI-generated answers to natural-language questions, links to the full-text sources behind every response, and CME credits that you earn, track and claim in the app, and Elsevier's product page adds native voice-to-text dictation in the mobile app. On the App Store, the ClinicalKey AI app is marked "Only for iPhone", with no iPad among its listed devices, and it carries an 18+ age rating. Both store listings say that, at this time, the app is only available in English. The AskMed app runs on iPhone, iPad and Android, with the same account on the web, and the AskMed app comes in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic, so you can switch devices and languages on one subscription. ## How do AskMed and ClinicalKey AI answer a clinical question differently? AskMed and ClinicalKey AI both write cited answers from a defined set of sources, but AskMed lets you set the evidence behind each answer and says plainly when none is found. ClinicalKey AI answers from Elsevier's copyright-cleared knowledge base; Elsevier says references are chosen mainly for relevance, with guidelines, meta-analyses, Cochrane reviews, expert panels and large randomized trials preferred, and that real-time citation validation checks each statement against its cited reference. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ECDC and ESC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels, plus official registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed's source filters turn source types on or off, pick study types and set 3 to 12 sources per answer. Elsevier's pages don't state user-set source filters. - A cited answer. Every claim in an AskMed answer links to its source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase, instead of answering from memory. - Drug facts outside the US. AskMed checks official registries such as the EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names. Elsevier's subscription page says some ClinicalKey AI content, such as drug information and guidelines, may not align with regulations and practices outside the United States. - Research Mode. AskMed reads up to 20 papers for one question, for a journal club, a gap in the guidelines or a patient who doesn't match the trial population. - Your own files. Attach a PDF or an image to a question, and AskMed cites your file for what the file itself says. - No drug doses. AskMed covers what a drug is used for, how it works, monitoring, side effects and how dosing is adjusted, but never states amounts or schedules; those come from the current label. How AskMed answers lists every source and limit in full. ## Who can use ClinicalKey AI, and who can use AskMed? ClinicalKey AI's App Store listing says ClinicalKey AI is intended for licensed clinicians and medical practitioners, and for residents and medical students in training who use the product under the supervision of a licensed medical practitioner. The ClinicalKey AI listing on Google Play says the app is designed for physicians, residents, medical students and healthcare professionals, and Elsevier's product page is written for healthcare leaders, clinicians and residents, and medical students in the US and Canada. Researchers are not named. Elsevier sells individual ClinicalKey AI plans in a listed set of countries, and its subscription page says some content may not align with practice outside the United States. AskMed asks for no license or NPI and works worldwide, so a medical student revising at home, a pharmacist reviewing an interaction, a nurse checking a monitoring plan and a researcher scoping a question use the same app as a consultant physician, with NICE, WHO, ECDC and ESC guidance searched alongside US sources. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams, and Elsevier's ClinicalKey AI pages and app listings don't mention exam question banks. AskMed's banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, and each bank is written in the language of its exam, such as French for EDN, Spanish for ENARM and Turkish for TUS. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and cites one to three published sources. A timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. The questions are written in advance and reviewed before they are served, never generated by AI while you study. When a question exposes a gap, you can ask AskMed in the same app, get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, and return to the bank. Students and international graduates keep exam practice and clinical answers in one account. The best AI apps for USMLE and the best AI apps for PLAB 1 compare AskMed with dedicated question banks. ## Is AskMed a good ClinicalKey AI alternative? AskMed is a strong ClinicalKey AI alternative for anyone who wants cited clinical answers without a hospital subscription, a supervision requirement or a country list. Choose AskMed if you study medicine, work as a nurse or pharmacist, or do research; if you live outside the countries where Elsevier sells individual plans; or if you want a lower individual price, at $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year against US $39 a month or US $349 a year. Choose AskMed if you're preparing for one of 10 licensing exams, want to set source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources on every question, need a local brand name checked in a registry such as the EMA or medicines.org.uk, or want the app on an iPad or in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese or Arabic. ClinicalKey AI suits clinicians whose hospital already licenses it inside Epic and who want CME credits. AskMed doesn't diagnose patients or decide treatment; AskMed focuses on cited answers and exam practice. Comparing ClinicalKey AI with OpenEvidence or UpToDate as well? See AskMed vs OpenEvidence, AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI and the UpToDate alternatives guide. ## Bottom line For most people who work or study in medicine, AskMed is the stronger choice over ClinicalKey AI for cited clinical answers. ClinicalKey AI is a capable tool, with full-text journals and textbooks, citation validation, an Epic integration and CME credits, but Elsevier's pages and app listings limit it in ways AskMed isn't limited: the app needs a subscription, individual plans cost US $39 a month or US $349 a year and are sold in listed countries, the App Store listing names supervised use for students and residents, and the app is English only and not listed for iPad. AskMed Pro costs $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year and works worldwide with no license number, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in seven languages. AskMed lets you set source filters on every question, checks drug registries outside the US such as the EMA, says so when no source supports an answer, never gives drug doses and includes question banks for 10 licensing exams. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is AskMed better than ClinicalKey AI? For cited answers to clinical questions, yes, for most people in medicine. AskMed costs less than an individual ClinicalKey AI plan, works in any country with no license number, lets you set source filters on every question, checks drug registries outside the US, runs on iPad as well as iPhone and Android, and includes question banks for 10 licensing exams. Q: What is ClinicalKey AI? ClinicalKey AI is Elsevier's generative AI clinical decision support tool. Elsevier says ClinicalKey AI answers natural-language clinical questions from a copyright-cleared knowledge base of guidelines, journals, reference texts and drug information, with citations linked to the evidence and real-time citation validation. Q: How much does ClinicalKey AI cost? Elsevier's subscription page lists an individual ClinicalKey AI plan at US $39 a month or US $349 a year, sold in listed countries. Elsevier doesn't publish an institutional price. AskMed Pro is $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year. Q: Is there a ClinicalKey AI app? Yes. Elsevier lists a ClinicalKey AI app on the App Store, marked "Only for iPhone", and on Google Play. Both listings say an existing institutional or individual ClinicalKey AI subscription is required and that the app is only available in English. AskMed runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web in seven languages. Q: Can medical students use ClinicalKey AI? ClinicalKey AI's App Store listing says residents and medical students may use ClinicalKey AI under the supervision of a licensed medical practitioner, and Elsevier's product page limits its medical student access to the US and Canada. AskMed is built for medical students everywhere, as well as doctors, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | ClinicalKey AI Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | No license needed | Licensed clinicians; students and residents under supervision (App Store); researchers not named Lower individual price Personal plan, US dollars | $24.99/month or $129.99/year | US $39/month or US $349/year Individual plan in any country No country list, no license number | ✓ | Listed countries; others register interest Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names | ✓ | Elsevier: drug information may not align outside the US Says so when no source is found No answers from memory | ✓ | Not stated iPad app One account on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web | ✓ | App Store: "Only for iPhone" App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic | ✓ | English only (App Store and Google Play) ## References - ClinicalKey AI, elsevier.com (accessed Nov 9, 2026) - ClinicalKey AI for individual clinicians, plans and available countries, subscriptions.elsevier.com (accessed Nov 9, 2026) - ClinicalKey AI, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 9, 2026) - ClinicalKey AI, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 9, 2026) - Elsevier expands ClinicalKey AI with full-text knowledge base and technology upgrades, Elsevier press release, February 18, 2026 - Elsevier announces expansion to ClinicalKey AI, Elsevier press release, March 4, 2025 --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-amboss Title: AskMed vs AMBOSS AI Mode: Sources, Price and Access Compare · Updated 10 November 2026 # AskMed vs AMBOSS AI Mode AskMed and AMBOSS AI Mode both use AI to answer medical questions and link each answer to its sources. AMBOSS AI Mode is the AI search feature inside AMBOSS, the medical knowledge and Qbank platform for students and clinicians, and it comes in two versions: AI Mode Clinical Care for questions at the point of care and AI Mode Learning for studying. AMBOSS says AI Mode draws on AMBOSS articles, the AMBOSS drug database and selected external sources such as clinical US guidelines. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, from PubMed, the Cochrane Library and NEJM to NICE, WHO and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to its source. This page compares the two on sources, guidelines, drug registries, Research Mode, languages, access and US prices. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of AMBOSS AI Mode on eight features, each checked in November 2026 against AMBOSS's website and its US App Store and Google Play listings. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while AMBOSS names students, residents, physicians, nurse practitioners and physician associates, not pharmacists or researchers. Second, AskMed searches the journal literature, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library and NEJM, while AMBOSS says AI Mode draws on its own library, its drug database and selected guidelines. Third, AskMed searches guidelines from outside the US, such as NICE, WHO and ESC. Fourth, AskMed checks official drug registries such as the EMA. Fifth, AskMed's Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question. Sixth, AskMed's source filters let you set source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources. Seventh, the AskMed app comes in seven languages. Eighth, AskMed has no waiting list for AI answers. Each card below shows one row. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ AMBOSS: Students, residents, physicians, NPs and PAs; pharmacists and researchers not named ### Searches the journal literature PubMed, Cochrane, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ AskMed: ✓ AMBOSS AI Mode: AMBOSS library, drug database and selected guidelines ### Guidelines from outside the US NICE, WHO, ECDC, ESC, KDIGO, GINA, GOLD AskMed: ✓ AMBOSS AI Mode: Names clinical US guidelines; others not stated ### Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names AskMed: ✓ AMBOSS AI Mode: Not stated ### Research Mode Reads up to 20 papers for one question AskMed: ✓ AMBOSS AI Mode: Not stated ### Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ AMBOSS AI Mode: Not stated ### App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic AskMed: ✓ AMBOSS: English and German (App Store listing) ### No waiting list for AI answers Ask from the day you sign up AskMed: ✓ AMBOSS AI Mode: "Waiting period may be several weeks", per its FAQ ## How much does AMBOSS AI Mode cost? AMBOSS AI Mode has no separate price: AMBOSS says AI Mode is currently included in all AMBOSS subscriptions, and that it may offer AI Mode within a Premium subscription in the future. On the US App Store, the AMBOSS Medical Knowledge app and the AMBOSS Qbank app each list one in-app purchase, AMBOSS Membership at $19.99, without stating the billing period. AMBOSS's US pricing page lists the student and resident membership at $19.99 a month, or $12.50 a month billed yearly, with 50 Qbank questions a month; a yearly membership with the Qbank bundle is $448. The clinician membership is $29.99 a month, or $21.58 a month billed yearly. AskMed Pro costs $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year, with one account for iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Over a year, AskMed Pro costs less than either AMBOSS yearly membership: $129.99 against $150 for students and residents and about $259 for clinicians. AskMed Pro $24.99/month or $129.99/year - Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels - Research Mode, up to 20 papers - Source filters, PDF and image attachments - iPhone, iPad, Android and web AMBOSS membership $19.99 to $29.99 a month - US App Store: AMBOSS Membership $19.99, billing period not shown - Students and residents: $19.99/month, or $12.50/month billed yearly - Clinicians: $29.99/month, or $21.58/month billed yearly - Yearly membership with Qbank bundle: $448 AskMed Pro · $129.99 AMBOSS student or resident · $150 AMBOSS clinician · about $259 Yearly price in US dollars. AMBOSS lists its yearly plans per month ($12.50 and $21.58, billed yearly) on its US pricing page, checked November 2026; the bars show 12 times those amounts. ## What is AMBOSS AI Mode? AMBOSS AI Mode is the AI search agent built into AMBOSS, the medical knowledge platform from AMBOSS SE that combines a library of more than 1,400 articles, a Qbank of more than 13,900 exam questions and clinical tools. AMBOSS AI Mode comes in two versions. AI Mode Clinical Care, also called LiSA 1.0, answers clinical questions for physicians, nurse practitioners and physician associates: AMBOSS says it searches AMBOSS articles, the AMBOSS drug database and selected external sources such as clinical practice guidelines, then writes a brief AI-generated summary with inline citations that point to the full sources, and it never searches the open web. AI Mode Learning, introduced on February 16, 2026, is a study copilot for students that explains concepts, reads uploaded notes, slides and images such as ECGs, and links each answer to AMBOSS articles, Qbank sessions and Anki cards. AMBOSS says AI Mode answers in the language of the question and adapts its answers to your specialty. ## AMBOSS AI Mode review: strengths and limits A fair AMBOSS AI Mode review starts with what AMBOSS does well. AMBOSS says its clinical AI Mode ranked first overall among 31 clinical AI tools in a Stanford-Harvard benchmark of 100 real consultation cases, and in the top tier for safety. AMBOSS AI Mode highlights when sources give differing recommendations, links inline citations to the original sources, and is trained to say so when it can't find relevant information. AMBOSS says its content is written and reviewed by clinician editors and that it stays independent of industry sponsorship. For a student already using the AMBOSS Qbank and Anki add-on, AI Mode Learning ties every explanation to practice questions and study progress in one place. The limits come from the same design. AMBOSS says AI Mode draws "exclusively" on its own library, its drug database and selected external sources such as guidelines, so by design it does not search the wider journal literature. AMBOSS's FAQ also warns that access to AI Mode may take several weeks. ## How do AskMed and AMBOSS AI Mode answer a clinical question differently? AskMed and AMBOSS AI Mode both write a short cited answer, but AskMed searches the published evidence directly while AMBOSS AI Mode searches mainly its own edited library. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ECDC, ESC, KDIGO, GINA and GOLD; FDA and DailyMed drug labels, plus official registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk for local brand names; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Each answer draws on 8 sources by default, and source filters let you set 3 to 12, turn source types on or off and pick study types. AMBOSS says AI Mode draws on AMBOSS articles, the AMBOSS drug database and selected external sources, naming clinical US guidelines. - A cited answer. Every claim in an AskMed answer links to its source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase, instead of answering from memory. - Research Mode. AskMed reads up to 20 papers for one question, for a journal club, a gap in the guidelines or a patient who doesn't match the trial population. - Your own files. Attach a PDF or an image to a question, and AskMed cites your file for what the file itself says. - No drug doses. AskMed covers what a drug is used for, how it works, monitoring, side effects and how dosing is adjusted, but never states amounts or schedules; those come from the current label. How AskMed answers lists every source and limit in full. ## Who can use AskMed and AMBOSS? AskMed is built for everyone who works or studies in medicine, while AMBOSS builds its plans around medical students, residents and prescribing clinicians. AMBOSS's website sorts its offer into students (MD, DO, PA and NP students), residents and clinicians, and its clinician page says AMBOSS's clinical decision support tools are designed for attending physicians, nurse practitioners and physician associates. AMBOSS's pages don't name pharmacists or researchers as audiences. AskMed asks for no license or NPI, so a pharmacist reviewing an interaction, a nurse checking a monitoring plan, a researcher scoping a question and a medical student on a ward rotation use the same app as a consultant physician. One AskMed account works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, the app comes in seven languages, and AskMed searches NICE, WHO, ECDC and ESC guidance alongside US sources such as the CDC and the USPSTF. ## Is AskMed a good AMBOSS AI alternative? AskMed is a strong AMBOSS AI alternative for anyone whose main need is a cited answer drawn from the wider medical evidence rather than from one publisher's library. Choose AskMed if you want answers that search PubMed, the Cochrane Library and major journals directly, if you practise or study outside the US and need NICE, WHO or ESC guidance and drug registries such as the EMA, or if you want Research Mode to read up to 20 papers for one question. Choose AskMed if you are a pharmacist, nurse or researcher, if you want source filters on every question, or if you want the app in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese or Arabic. AMBOSS is built around a different job: a curated library, a large US-focused Qbank, Anki integration, CME for searches and an AI layer tied to all of it. A student deep in USMLE prep inside AMBOSS may keep AMBOSS for questions and use AskMed for evidence. For other AI tools that answer from one publisher's content or limit who can sign up, see AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI and AskMed vs OpenEvidence. ## Bottom line For most people who work or study in medicine and want cited answers from the published evidence, AskMed is the stronger choice over AMBOSS AI Mode. AMBOSS AI Mode is a well-built AI layer on top of the AMBOSS library and Qbank, and AMBOSS says it searches its own articles, its drug database and selected guidelines, with clinical US guidelines named. AskMed searches journals such as NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ, databases such as PubMed and the Cochrane Library, guidelines from NICE, WHO, ECDC and ESC as well as the CDC and the USPSTF, and official drug labels and registries, then links every claim to its source. AskMed adds Research Mode for up to 20 papers, source filters on every question and an app in seven languages, for doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists and researchers alike. AskMed Pro costs $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year, below the yearly prices of AMBOSS's student, resident and clinician memberships. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is AskMed better than AMBOSS AI Mode? For cited answers from the wider medical evidence, yes, for most people in medicine. AskMed searches journals, guidelines from many countries and official drug labels and registries, adds Research Mode and source filters, and is built for pharmacists and researchers as well as doctors, nurses and students. Q: What is AMBOSS AI Mode? AMBOSS AI Mode is the AI search feature inside AMBOSS. AI Mode Clinical Care answers clinical questions with a brief summary and inline citations from AMBOSS articles, the AMBOSS drug database and selected guidelines; AI Mode Learning is a study copilot linked to AMBOSS articles, Qbank sessions and Anki cards. Q: How much does AMBOSS AI Mode cost? AMBOSS says AI Mode is currently included in all AMBOSS subscriptions. AMBOSS's US pricing page lists $19.99 a month for students and residents and $29.99 a month for clinicians, and the US App Store lists AMBOSS Membership at $19.99. AskMed Pro is $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year. Q: Is there an AMBOSS AI app? AMBOSS AI Mode is part of the AMBOSS platform rather than a separate app. AMBOSS's apps are AMBOSS Medical Knowledge and AMBOSS Qbank on iPhone and iPad, and AMBOSS Knowledge Library on Android, and the latest US App Store release notes for AMBOSS Medical Knowledge point users to AI Mode. AskMed is one app on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses like AMBOSS? No. AMBOSS lists drug dosing among its clinical tools, but AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules. A drug answer in AskMed still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | AMBOSS AI Mode Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | Students, residents, physicians, NPs and PAs; pharmacists and researchers not named Searches the journal literature PubMed, Cochrane, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ | ✓ | AMBOSS library, drug database and selected guidelines Guidelines from outside the US NICE, WHO, ECDC, ESC, KDIGO, GINA, GOLD | ✓ | Names clinical US guidelines; others not stated Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names | ✓ | Not stated Research Mode Reads up to 20 papers for one question | ✓ | Not stated Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic | ✓ | English and German (App Store listing) No waiting list for AI answers Ask from the day you sign up | ✓ | "Waiting period may be several weeks", per its FAQ ## References - AMBOSS AI Mode: AI Search for Evidence-Based Care, amboss.com (accessed Nov 9, 2026) - AI Mode Learning, amboss.com (accessed Nov 9, 2026) - Introducing AMBOSS AI Mode Learning: Your AI Study Copilot, AMBOSS Newsroom, February 16, 2026 (accessed Nov 9, 2026) - Clinical Decision Support for the Point of Care, amboss.com (accessed Nov 9, 2026) - AMBOSS Pricing, amboss.com (accessed Nov 9, 2026) - AMBOSS Medical Knowledge, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 9, 2026) - AMBOSS Qbank for Medical Exams, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 9, 2026) - AMBOSS Knowledge Library, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 9, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-kimi Title: AskMed vs Kimi: Is Kimi AI Good for Medical Questions? Compare · Updated 9 November 2026 # AskMed vs Kimi AskMed and Kimi both answer questions in a chat, but they are built for different jobs. Kimi is Moonshot AI's general AI assistant, which its App Store listing calls “Your Personal AI Agent”, on the web at kimi.com and in apps for iPhone, iPad, Android and desktop. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to the source behind it. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account across all four. This page compares the two for medical questions only, using Kimi's own website, help center, Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and app store listings. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead For medical questions, AskMed comes out ahead of Kimi on eight features, each checked on November 8, 2026 against kimi.com, Kimi's help center, Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the Kimi listings on the US App Store and Google Play. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while Kimi is a general AI agent listed under Productivity. Second, AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels before every answer; Kimi's web search runs when Kimi decides a question needs it. Third, AskMed links every claim to its source, where Kimi adds reference links to search-based answers. Fourth, AskMed says so when it finds no usable medical source. Fifth, AskMed reads official drug labels and registries from many countries. Sixth, AskMed's source filters let you pick study types and set 3 to 12 sources. Seventh, AskMed includes exam question banks for 10 licensing exams. Eighth, AskMed carries no pharma advertising or sponsorship. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ Kimi: General AI agent, listed under Productivity ### Medical sources searched before every answer Journals, guidelines and drug labels AskMed: ✓ Kimi: Web search when Kimi decides it's needed ### Every claim cited A source link after each claim AskMed: ✓ Kimi: Reference links on search-based answers ### Says so when no source is found No answer from memory AskMed: ✓ Kimi: Not stated ### Official drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk AskMed: ✓ Kimi: Not stated ### Source filters Study types and 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ Kimi: Not stated ### Exam prep question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Kimi: Not stated ### No pharma advertising or sponsorship Sources chosen by evidence, not sponsor AskMed: ✓ Kimi: Privacy Policy describes targeted ads with ad partners ## What is Kimi? Kimi is a general-purpose AI assistant from Moonshot AI, whose App Store seller name is Beijing Moonshot Technology Co., Ltd. The Kimi app is on the US App Store as “Kimi - Your Personal AI Agent”, listed under Productivity, and on Google Play under Tools, with more than 5 million downloads. Both store listings lead with the Kimi K3.1 Pro model and list features such as 3D game creation, 3D modeling, Agent Swarm (up to 300 AI agents across 4,000 parallel steps), AI Slides, an Office Agent for PDF, Word and Excel files, Vibe Coding for websites, and plugins for financial data from Wind and S&P. Kimi runs on the web at kimi.com, in mobile apps for iOS, Android and HarmonyOS, and in a desktop app, Kimi Work, for Windows and Mac. Neither store listing mentions medicine or health. For users outside mainland China, Kimi's Terms of Service are with NOVASCENT PRIVATE LIMITED, a company registered in Singapore. ## Is Kimi AI good for medical questions? Kimi AI can discuss medical topics, but Kimi's own Terms of Service don't present Kimi as a medical tool. The Kimi Terms of Service for users outside mainland China, effective November 5, 2026, say Moonshot AI makes no guarantees about the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any output, and tell you not to treat output as factual or authoritative. The same terms say Kimi's output is not professional advice and name medicine among the fields where you should consult qualified professionals. Kimi's usage rules forbid making decisions or giving advice in high-risk areas, medical included, without appropriate human review, and forbid using output about an identifiable person for decisions on healthcare. Kimi's web search can bring sources into an answer, and Kimi's help center says search-based answers include reference links. For a guideline, a drug interaction or an exam topic, a tool that answers only from medical sources and cites each claim gives you more to check, which is the job AskMed was built for. ## How do AskMed and Kimi answer a medical question differently? AskMed and Kimi differ most in where a medical answer comes from. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical websites before any answer is written: PubMed and the Cochrane Library, journals such as NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ, guidelines from NICE, WHO, CDC, ESC, KDIGO and GINA, FDA and DailyMed drug labels, and references such as StatPearls and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed skips forums and social media, ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and draws on 8 sources by default, each linked after the claim it supports. Kimi answers from its language model, and Kimi's help center says that with web search set to Auto, Kimi decides whether a question needs real-time data and then searches engines and databases. Kimi says that search covers more than 100 verified sources, including academic journal databases, filters out low-quality sites, and adds reference links to search-based answers. Kimi's pages don't name medical sources. Where each answer comes from, as AskMed's own pages and Kimi's help center describe it. - A cited answer. Every claim in an AskMed answer links to its source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase, instead of answering from memory. - Research Mode. AskMed reads up to 20 papers for one question, for a journal club, a gap in the guidelines or a patient who doesn't match the trial population. - Your own files. Attach a PDF or an image to a question, and AskMed cites your file for what the file itself says. How AskMed answers lists every source and limit in full. ## Which is better for drug questions? For drug questions, AskMed is the better fit because AskMed answers from official drug labels, the prescribing information regulators approved. AskMed reads FDA labels and DailyMed, and for local brand names AskMed also checks official drug registries from many countries, such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk, so a brand sold in Europe or the UK leads to the right label. Each drug claim links to the label's exact web address, so a pharmacist checking an interaction or a nurse checking a side effect can confirm the wording. Kimi's website, help center, terms and store listings don't state that Kimi reads drug labels or drug registries; the data sources Kimi's help center lists are financial, academic and World Bank data. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions. An AskMed drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how the drug works, monitoring, side effects and safety, with exact amounts left to the current label. ## What do AskMed and Kimi say about privacy? AskMed and Kimi publish different privacy statements, and both are worth reading before you type anything about a patient. Kimi's Privacy Policy for users outside mainland China, last updated November 5, 2026, says Kimi processes user content, such as prompts, files and images, to provide and improve the Services, including training and optimizing its AI models. Kimi's Terms of Service add that you can opt out of training by emailing membership@moonshot.ai, and that the opt-out only applies going forward. The same Privacy Policy says Moonshot AI may work with third-party ad networks and advertising partners for targeted advertising, and that your information may be stored on servers outside your country. AskMed's home page says your conversations are encrypted and never sold, that AskMed is HIPAA-conscious, and that AskMed is built independently with no pharma sponsorship. AskMed's Private Mode keeps new questions out of History. In either app, leave names, dates of birth and other identifying details out of a question. ## Kimi vs ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek and Gemini for doctors Kimi, ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek and Gemini are all general AI assistants, and all five apps are listed under Productivity on the US App Store, not under Medical, as we checked on November 8, 2026. For a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, researcher or medical student, that shared category matters more than which of the five builds the better slide deck or website. When you choose any of them for medical questions, three checks separate a useful answer from a risky one. First, can you see which source supports each claim, not only a list of links at the end? Second, does a drug answer come from the official label for your country? Third, what happens when no good source exists: does the app say so, or does it answer anyway? AskMed was built around those three checks: a link after each claim, official drug labels, and a plain reply when no source is found. Each of these comparisons checks the other app against its own pages: AskMed vs ChatGPT, AskMed vs Claude, AskMed vs DeepSeek and AskMed vs Gemini. ## Exam prep for 10 licensing exams AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams: PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Kimi's pages don't state any exam question banks; Kimi's store listings describe AI Slides for work and study and an Office Agent for documents, without naming medical exams. AskMed's questions are written in advance, not generated by AI when you ask, and each bank is in the language of its exam, so EDN questions are in French, ENARM in Spanish, TUS in Turkish and UKOMNAS in Indonesian. Every question has an explanation for every option, not only the correct one, and 1 to 3 linked sources, and only reviewed questions are served. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels. Students and international graduates keep exam practice and clinical answers in one account, on phone, tablet or the web. For guides by exam, see best AI apps for USMLE and best AI apps for PLAB 1. ## When should you use AskMed or Kimi? Use AskMed when the question is medical and the answer needs to be checked: a guideline recommendation, a drug interaction, a contraindication, the evidence behind a treatment, or a topic for a licensing exam. AskMed suits doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers who need to open the source behind each claim, filter by study type, or set how many sources an answer draws on, from 3 to 12. Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question. Use Kimi for the general tasks a general AI agent is built for, such as making slides, converting PDF, Word and Excel files, building a website, writing code or running a multi-step Agent Swarm task. Kimi's Terms of Service ask you to check output yourself, to keep appropriate human review before any medical advice or decision, and not to use output about an identifiable person for healthcare decisions. AskMed doesn't diagnose patients; AskMed is a cited reference for people who work or study in medicine. ## Bottom line For medical questions, AskMed is the stronger choice over Kimi. Kimi is a capable general AI agent from Moonshot AI, listed under Productivity, with slides, coding, 3D creation, document tools and a web search that adds reference links when it runs. Kimi's own Terms of Service say its output is not professional advice and that you shouldn't treat it as factual or authoritative. AskMed is built for medical work: for doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers, AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels before every answer, links every claim to its source, and says so when no usable source turns up. AskMed reads FDA and DailyMed labels plus drug registries from many countries, lets you filter by study type and set 3 to 12 sources, and includes exam question banks for 10 licensing exams, from PLAB and USMLE to NEET-PG and ENARM. AskMed never gives drug doses and carries no pharma advertising. AskMed runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in seven languages. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is Kimi AI good for medical questions? Kimi is a general AI agent. Kimi's Terms of Service say its output is not professional advice, name medicine among the fields where you should consult qualified professionals, and tell you not to treat output as factual or authoritative. AskMed is built for medical questions and cites a medical source for every claim. Q: Does Kimi cite sources? Kimi's help center says search-based answers include reference source links you can open. Web search is set to Auto or Off, and on Auto Kimi decides whether a question needs it. AskMed searches medical sources before every answer and links each claim to its source. Q: What does AskMed have that Kimi doesn't state? AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels before every answer, cites every claim, says so when no source is found, reads drug registries from many countries, offers source filters and includes exam question banks for 10 licensing exams. Kimi's own pages don't state these. Q: Does Kimi use my chats to train its models? Kimi's Privacy Policy says user content is processed to provide and improve the Services, including training its AI models, and Kimi's Terms of Service say you can opt out by emailing membership@moonshot.ai, from then on. AskMed's conversations are encrypted and never sold. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. AskMed still explains what a drug is used for, how dosing is chosen and adjusted, monitoring, side effects and safety, and links the drug label for exact amounts. Q: Who is AskMed for? AskMed is built for everyone in medicine: doctors in every specialty, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. AskMed works worldwide with no NPI or US license, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. AskMed is not a symptom checker and doesn't diagnose patients. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Kimi Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | General AI agent, listed under Productivity Medical sources searched before every answer Journals, guidelines and drug labels | ✓ | Web search when Kimi decides it's needed Every claim cited A source link after each claim | ✓ | Reference links on search-based answers Says so when no source is found No answer from memory | ✓ | Not stated Official drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk | ✓ | Not stated Source filters Study types and 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Exam prep question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated No pharma advertising or sponsorship Sources chosen by evidence, not sponsor | ✓ | Privacy Policy describes targeted ads with ad partners ## References - Kimi website, kimi.com, and Download Kimi (accessed Nov 8, 2026) - Kimi help center: Search and What can Kimi do? (accessed Nov 8, 2026) - Kimi Terms of Service for users outside mainland China, effective November 5, 2026 (accessed Nov 8, 2026) - Kimi Privacy Policy for users outside mainland China, last updated November 5, 2026 (accessed Nov 8, 2026) - Kimi - Your Personal AI Agent, US App Store listing (accessed Nov 8, 2026) - Kimi, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 8, 2026) - How AskMed answers, getaskmed.com: AskMed's sources, citations, no-source reply and no-dose rule --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-qwen Title: AskMed vs Qwen: Is Qwen Good for Medical Questions? Compare · Updated 8 November 2026 # AskMed vs Qwen AskMed and Qwen both answer questions in a chat, but they are built for different jobs. Qwen is Alibaba's general AI assistant, powered by the Qwen series of models, on the web at chat.qwen.ai and in the Qwen Studio app that Alibaba Cloud lists on Google Play under Productivity. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to the source behind it. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account across all four. This page compares the two for medical questions only, using Qwen's own website, its Service Agreement and its app store listings. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead For medical questions, AskMed comes out ahead of Qwen on eight features, each checked in November 2026 against qwen.ai, the Qwen Service Agreement, the Qwen Studio page on Google Play and the US App Store. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while Qwen is a general AI assistant whose Service Agreement limits it to private and non-commercial use. Second, AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels before every answer; Qwen searches public web pages only when it judges you want a search or you turn search on. Third, AskMed links every claim to its source. Fourth, AskMed says so when it finds no usable medical source. Fifth, AskMed reads official drug labels and registries from many countries. Sixth, AskMed's source filters let you pick study types and set 3 to 12 sources. Seventh, AskMed includes exam question banks for 10 licensing exams. Eighth, AskMed has an iPhone app on the US App Store, where Qwen had no listing. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ Qwen: General assistant; terms say private, non-commercial use only ### Medical sources searched before every answer Journals, guidelines and drug labels AskMed: ✓ Qwen: Public web pages, when a search runs ### Every claim cited A source link after each claim AskMed: ✓ Qwen: Reference sources shown when it searches ### Says so when no source is found No answer from memory AskMed: ✓ Qwen: Not stated ### Official drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk AskMed: ✓ Qwen: Not stated ### Source filters Study types and 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ Qwen: Not stated ### Exam prep question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Qwen: Not stated ### iPhone app on the US App Store iPhone and iPad, US storefront AskMed: ✓ Qwen: No US listing found, Nov 7, 2026 ## What is Qwen? Qwen is a general-purpose AI assistant from Alibaba, powered by Alibaba's Qwen series of large language models. The qwen.ai website calls Qwen “an AI assistant for everyone” and lists Search, Web Dev, Artifacts, Deep Research, Image Generation and Video Generation, along with multimodal understanding of text, images, audio and video. Qwen runs in the browser at chat.qwen.ai and in an app called Qwen Studio, which Alibaba Cloud lists on Google Play under Productivity, not Medical, with more than 5 million downloads. The Qwen Studio store description presents the app as a life manager, office helper and study companion for work, learning and leisure, and doesn't mention medicine or health. When we checked on November 7, 2026, the US App Store had no Qwen listing, although the app appears in other countries' App Stores. The Qwen Service Agreement, effective September 10, 2026, is with Nth Power Global Tech Singapore Pte. Ltd., requires users to be at least 18, and covers Qwen and Qwen Studio. ## Is Qwen good for medical questions? Qwen can discuss medical topics, but Qwen's own Service Agreement doesn't present Qwen as a medical tool. The Qwen Service Agreement says Qwen's outputs are “inherently unpredictable”, may occasionally include inaccurate information, and that the company cannot guarantee their authenticity, accuracy or reliability, so you should review and verify any information you consider important. The same agreement says that you shouldn't rely on Qwen's output as the sole source of truth or treat it as a substitute for professional advice, naming medical advice. Its usage rules forbid using output about an individual, without human review, in decisions with material impact such as healthcare, and forbid giving advice that doctors give without the matching qualifications. The agreement also says the Services are for private and non-commercial use only. For a guideline, a drug interaction or an exam topic, a tool that answers only from medical sources and cites each claim gives you more to check, which is the job AskMed was built for. ## How do AskMed and Qwen answer a medical question differently? AskMed and Qwen differ most in where a medical answer comes from. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical websites before any answer is written: PubMed and the Cochrane Library, journals such as NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ, guidelines from NICE, WHO, CDC, ESC, KDIGO and GINA, FDA and DailyMed drug labels, and references such as StatPearls and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed skips forums and social media, ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and draws on 8 sources by default, each linked after the claim it supports. Qwen answers from its language model, and the Qwen Service Agreement says Qwen searches publicly available third-party sources when it identifies that you intend a search or you select the search function, then shows reference sources on the answer page. The same agreement warns that responses may still contain errors even when reference sources are identified. Qwen's pages don't list which sites that search reads. Where each answer comes from, as AskMed's own pages and the Qwen Service Agreement describe it. - A cited answer. Every claim in an AskMed answer links to its source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase, instead of answering from memory. - Research Mode. AskMed reads up to 20 papers for one question, for a journal club, a gap in the guidelines or a patient who doesn't match the trial population. - Your own files. Attach a PDF or an image to a question, and AskMed cites your file for what the file itself says. How AskMed answers lists every source and limit in full. ## Which is better for drug questions? For drug questions, AskMed is the better fit because AskMed answers from official drug labels, the prescribing information regulators approved. AskMed reads FDA labels and DailyMed, and for local brand names AskMed also checks official drug registries from many countries, such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk, so a brand sold in Europe or the UK leads to the right label. Each drug claim links to the label's exact web address, so a pharmacist checking an interaction or a nurse checking a side effect can confirm the wording. Qwen's website, Service Agreement and store listing don't state that Qwen reads drug labels or registries. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions. An AskMed drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how the drug works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is chosen and adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with exact amounts left to the current label. ## Exam prep for 10 licensing exams AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams: PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Qwen's pages don't state any exam question banks; the Qwen Studio listing describes the app as a study companion, without naming medical exams. AskMed's questions are written in advance, not generated by AI when you ask, and each bank is in the language of its exam, so EDN questions are in French, ENARM in Spanish, TUS in Turkish and UKOMNAS in Indonesian. Every question has an explanation for every option, not only the correct one, and 1 to 3 linked sources, and only reviewed questions are served. A timed mock exam lets you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels. Students and international graduates keep exam practice and clinical answers in one account. For guides by exam, see best AI apps for USMLE and best AI apps for PLAB 1. ## When should you use AskMed or Qwen? Use AskMed when the question is medical and the answer needs to be checked: a guideline recommendation, a drug interaction, a contraindication, the evidence behind a treatment, or a topic for a licensing exam. AskMed suits doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers who need to open the source behind each claim, filter by study type, or set how many sources an answer draws on, from 3 to 12. Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question. Use Qwen for the general tasks a general AI assistant is built for, such as drafting text, building a web page, making images or videos, or everyday questions outside medicine. The Qwen Service Agreement asks you to review and verify important information, to keep a person in the loop before output about someone feeds a healthcare decision, and to use Qwen privately rather than commercially. AskMed doesn't diagnose patients; AskMed is a cited reference for people who work or study in medicine. For other general chatbots, see AskMed vs DeepSeek and AskMed vs ChatGPT. ## Bottom line For medical questions, AskMed is the stronger choice over Qwen. Qwen is a capable general AI assistant from Alibaba, listed under Productivity, whose own Service Agreement says its outputs are unpredictable and may be inaccurate, that you shouldn't rely on them in place of medical advice, and that the service is for private and non-commercial use. AskMed is built for medical work: for doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers, AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels before every answer, links every claim to its source, and says so when no usable source turns up. AskMed reads FDA and DailyMed labels plus drug registries from many countries, lets you filter by study type and set 3 to 12 sources, and includes exam question banks for 10 licensing exams, from PLAB and USMLE to NEET-PG and ENARM. AskMed never gives drug doses and carries no pharma advertising. AskMed runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account, in seven languages. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is Qwen good for medical questions? Qwen is a general AI assistant. The Qwen Service Agreement says its outputs may be inaccurate, asks you to verify important information, and says you shouldn't rely on them in place of professional advice, including medical advice. AskMed is built for medical questions and cites a medical source for every claim. Q: What does AskMed have that Qwen doesn't state? AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels before every answer, cites every claim, says so when no source is found, reads drug registries from many countries, offers source filters and includes exam question banks for 10 licensing exams. Qwen's own pages don't state these. Q: Is Qwen on the US App Store? When we checked on November 7, 2026, the US App Store had no Qwen listing; the Qwen Studio app was listed in other countries' App Stores and on Google Play. AskMed is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, on Google Play and on the web. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. AskMed still explains what a drug is used for, how dosing is chosen and adjusted, monitoring, side effects and safety, and links the drug label for exact amounts. Q: Who is AskMed for? AskMed is built for everyone in medicine: doctors in every specialty, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. AskMed works worldwide with no NPI or US license, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. AskMed is not a symptom checker and doesn't diagnose patients. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Qwen Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | General assistant; terms say private, non-commercial use only Medical sources searched before every answer Journals, guidelines and drug labels | ✓ | Public web pages, when a search runs Every claim cited A source link after each claim | ✓ | Reference sources shown when it searches Says so when no source is found No answer from memory | ✓ | Not stated Official drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk | ✓ | Not stated Source filters Study types and 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Exam prep question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated iPhone app on the US App Store iPhone and iPad, US storefront | ✓ | No US listing found, Nov 7, 2026 ## References - Qwen website, qwen.ai, and Qwen Chat, chat.qwen.ai (accessed Nov 7, 2026) - Qwen Service Agreement, sections I, II, V and VIII, effective September 10, 2026 (accessed Nov 7, 2026) - Qwen Studio, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 7, 2026) - Apple App Store, US storefront: no listing for Qwen or Qwen Studio (app id 6743778442) (checked Nov 7, 2026) - How AskMed answers, getaskmed.com: AskMed's sources, citations, no-source reply and no-dose rule --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-scispace Title: AskMed vs SciSpace: SciSpace Review and Alternative Compare · Updated 8 November 2026 # AskMed vs SciSpace AskMed and SciSpace both answer questions with citations to published research. SciSpace, made by PubGenius Inc. and formerly called Typeset, calls itself the AI platform for scientific research: its US App Store listing says it searches 270+ million papers, and its website lists tools for literature reviews, chatting with PDFs, extracting data, writing and citing, plus SciSpace Agent and a BioMed Agent for biomedical research. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to its source. This page compares the two on who each is built for, where answers come from, apps, languages, exam prep, calculators and price, with every SciSpace fact checked November 2026 on scispace.com and its App Store listing. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of SciSpace on six features, each checked in November 2026 against scispace.com, SciSpace's US App Store listing and a search of Google Play. First, AskMed is built only for medicine, for students as well as clinicians, while SciSpace serves scientific research in every field and its App Store listing names academics, researchers and students. Second, AskMed searches clinical guidelines and FDA and DailyMed drug labels on every question, while SciSpace's data sources page lists Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and Google Scholar. Third, AskMed has an Android app, and SciSpace's own site says its mobile app is on iOS and will launch on Android soon. Fourth, the AskMed apps work in seven languages, while SciSpace's iOS app lists English only. Fifth, AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams. Sixth, getaskmed.com offers clinical calculators built from their original papers. SciSpace has real strengths for literature reviews and writing, covered below. Each card shows one row. ### Built only for medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: Everyone in medicine, no license needed SciSpace: Academics, researchers and students in every field; pharmacists and licensing-exam candidates not named ### Guidelines and drug labels NICE, WHO, FDA, DailyMed and the EMA AskMed: ✓ SciSpace: Not stated; papers from Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and Google Scholar ### Android app A native app on Google Play AskMed: ✓ SciSpace: Not yet; iOS only, Android "soon" per scispace.com ### App in 7 languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic AskMed: ✓ SciSpace: iOS app in English only ### Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams SciSpace: Not stated; quizzes and study guides from your own files ### Clinical calculators CHA₂DS₂-VASc, CURB-65, MELD and more AskMed: On getaskmed.com, each from its original paper SciSpace: Not stated; research calculators such as Cronbach's alpha ## What is SciSpace? SciSpace is an AI research platform from PubGenius Inc., a company based in Milpitas, California, and its website shows the brand as SciSpace, formerly Typeset. The SciSpace homepage calls it the AI platform for scientific research and says it is trusted by more than 11 million researchers worldwide. Its tools cover the research workflow from search to submission: Literature Review finds and summarizes papers on a question, Chat with PDF answers questions about an uploaded paper with citations, and Extract Data pulls findings from several PDFs at once. AI Writer, a Paraphraser and a Citation Generator with more than 2,300 citation styles help with writing. SciSpace Agent runs multi-step research tasks, and its Agent Gallery holds ready-made templates, from a PubMed search and a ClinicalTrials.gov search to PRISMA flow diagrams and poster makers. SciSpace also offers a Chrome extension, an AI Detector, a Plagiarism Checker and an iPhone and iPad app that searches 270+ million papers. ## SciSpace review: strengths and limits A fair SciSpace review starts with what SciSpace is built for: finding, reading and writing up research papers. SciSpace's App Store listing says every AI-generated insight includes references to its sources, and its Literature Review and Chat with PDF tools pull methods, results and conclusions out of papers in plain language. The SciSpace BioMed Agent, marked as a new release on scispace.com, is a research co-scientist for multi-omics, clinical genomics, drug discovery and lab protocols, with more than 100 biomedical software packages, more than 150 specialized biological tools and dozens of curated biomedical databases; scispace.com says the full BioMed Agent experience comes with its Enterprise plan. SciSpace Agent runs on a usage-based credit system: monthly credits come with every subscription and reset at the start of each billing cycle, and add-on credits can be bought on top. The SciSpace mobile app, first released on the App Store in February 2025, runs on iPhone and iPad only and lists English as its only language. ## Is SciSpace good for medical questions? SciSpace is good at finding and summarizing what published papers say about a medical topic, while AskMed is built to answer the clinical question from the full range of medical sources. SciSpace's data sources page says it draws research papers from Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Google Scholar and other repositories, and its Agent Gallery includes a PubMed search, a ClinicalTrials.gov search and a clinical case report generator. None of the SciSpace pages checked mention FDA or DailyMed drug labels or name guideline bodies such as NICE or WHO as sources. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources on every question: PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidance from NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ECDC, ESC and KDIGO; FDA and DailyMed drug labels, plus registries such as the EMA and medicines.org.uk; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and gives the year of each guideline it cites. - A cited answer. Every claim in an AskMed answer links to its source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase, instead of answering from memory. - Source filters. Turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, pick study types, and set 3 to 12 sources per answer. - Research Mode. AskMed reads up to 20 papers for one question, for a journal club, a gap in the guidelines or a patient who doesn't match the trial population. - No drug doses. AskMed covers what a drug is used for, how it works, monitoring, side effects and how dosing is adjusted, but never states amounts or schedules; those come from the current label. How AskMed answers lists every source and limit in full, and the best AI for medical literature search compares AskMed with PubMed, Elicit, Consensus and other search tools. ## Who are AskMed and SciSpace built for? AskMed is built for everyone who works or studies in medicine, while SciSpace is built for scientific research in every field. SciSpace's App Store listing calls its app an AI toolkit for academics, researchers and students working on a thesis, manuscript or grant proposal. The SciSpace BioMed Agent page names academic labs, clinician-scientists working on rare diseases, biotech and pharma teams, and students and trainees who want expert-level pipelines and protocols. None of the SciSpace pages checked name pharmacists or students preparing for medical licensing exams. AskMed asks for no license or NPI, so a medical student on a ward rotation, a pharmacist reviewing an interaction, a nurse checking a monitoring plan and a researcher scoping a question use the same app as a consultant physician. AskMed answers in the terms a colleague would use, cites guidance from NICE, WHO, ECDC and ESC alongside US sources such as the CDC and the USPSTF, and works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web in seven languages. ## How much does SciSpace cost? SciSpace sells its paid plans on scispace.com, and its pricing page lists Premium at $20 a month or $144 a year and Advanced at $90 a month or $840 a year, checked November 2026. Billed yearly, that works out to $12 a month for Premium and $70 a month for Advanced. A higher individual tier costs $200 a month, and Teams plans are priced per user. Every subscription includes monthly credits for SciSpace Agent, which reset at the start of each billing cycle, and scispace.com offers a money-back guarantee for the first 24 hours. SciSpace's iOS app lists no in-app purchases on the US App Store, so there are no App Store prices to show, and SciSpace has no Android app yet. AskMed Pro costs $129.99 a year, with one account for iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Over a year, AskMed Pro costs less than SciSpace Premium or SciSpace Advanced, and AskMed has no credits to track. AskMed Pro $129.99/year - Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels - Research Mode, up to 20 papers - Source filters, PDF and image attachments - iPhone, iPad, Android and web SciSpace Premium and Advanced $20 to $90/month or $144 to $840/year - Premium: $20/month or $144/year - Advanced: $90/month or $840/year - Monthly SciSpace Agent credits, reset each billing cycle - Sold on scispace.com; web and iOS ## Does SciSpace help with medical exams? AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams, and none of the SciSpace pages checked for this comparison, from its website and Agent Gallery to its App Store listing, mention licensing exam question banks. SciSpace's Agent Gallery can turn your own lecture notes or PDFs into a study guide with flashcards and practice questions, which suits revising your own material. AskMed's banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, and each bank is written in the language of its exam, such as French for EDN, Spanish for ENARM and Turkish for TUS. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and cites one to three published sources. A timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. The questions are written in advance and reviewed before they are served, never generated by AI while you study. The best AI apps for USMLE and the best AI apps for PLAB 1 compare AskMed with dedicated question banks. ## Is AskMed a good SciSpace alternative? AskMed is a strong SciSpace alternative for anyone whose main need is a cited answer to a medical question rather than a literature review or a manuscript. Choose AskMed if you want medical sources searched on every question, drug facts checked against FDA and DailyMed labels and registries such as the EMA and medicines.org.uk, guidance from NICE, WHO and the USPSTF ranked ahead of single studies, and an answer that says so when no source supports it. Choose AskMed if you want native apps on iPhone, iPad and Android in seven languages, question banks for 10 licensing exams, or clinical calculators such as CHA₂DS₂-VASc, CURB-65 and MELD, each built from its original paper. SciSpace fits a different job: searching 270+ million papers across every field, chatting with PDFs, extracting data, drafting and citing a paper, and running biomedical research workflows with its BioMed Agent. AskMed doesn't diagnose patients, give drug doses or replace reading the paper. For other research tools compared on medical questions, see AskMed vs Consensus and AskMed vs Elicit. ## Bottom line For most people who work or study in medicine and want cited answers to clinical questions, AskMed is the stronger choice over SciSpace. SciSpace is a capable AI platform for scientific research, with Literature Review, Chat with PDF, writing tools, SciSpace Agent and a BioMed Agent, but SciSpace serves every field, its mobile app is on iOS only and in English only, and its pages don't state drug label sources, guideline sources, exam question banks or clinical calculators. AskMed is built only for medicine, for doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers alike. AskMed searches journals, guidelines, FDA and DailyMed drug labels and registries such as the EMA on every question, ranks guidelines first, links every claim to its source, says so when no source supports an answer and never gives drug doses. AskMed adds question banks for 10 licensing exams, works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web in seven languages, and AskMed Pro costs $129.99 a year against $144 for SciSpace Premium. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is AskMed better than SciSpace? For cited answers to medical questions, yes, for most people in medicine. AskMed searches guidelines, journals and drug labels on every question, has apps for iPhone, iPad and Android in seven languages, includes question banks for 10 licensing exams, and costs less per year than SciSpace Premium. SciSpace is built for literature reviews and paper writing across every field. Q: What is SciSpace used for? SciSpace describes itself as the AI platform for scientific research. People use it to search and summarize papers with Literature Review, ask questions about a PDF with Chat with PDF, extract data from several papers, draft and paraphrase text, generate citations, and run multi-step research tasks with SciSpace Agent. Q: Is SciSpace good for medical questions? SciSpace can show what research papers say on a medical topic, drawing papers from Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and Google Scholar, and its Agent Gallery includes PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov searches. Its pages don't state drug label or clinical guideline sources. AskMed adds FDA and DailyMed labels, drug registries, guidelines from NICE, WHO and the USPSTF, and clinical references. Q: Does SciSpace have an Android app? Not yet. SciSpace's own site says its mobile app is available on iOS and will launch on Android soon, and a search of Google Play in November 2026 found no SciSpace app. The iOS app, from PubGenius Inc., runs on iPhone and iPad and lists English only. AskMed has native apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, plus the web. Q: How much does SciSpace cost compared with AskMed? SciSpace's pricing page lists Premium at $20 a month or $144 a year and Advanced at $90 a month or $840 a year. AskMed Pro is $129.99 a year. Q: Is SciSpace the same as Typeset? Yes. SciSpace's website shows the brand as SciSpace, formerly Typeset, and the company behind it is PubGenius Inc., based in Milpitas, California. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | SciSpace Built only for medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | Everyone in medicine, no license needed | Academics, researchers and students in every field; pharmacists and licensing-exam candidates not named Guidelines and drug labels NICE, WHO, FDA, DailyMed and the EMA | ✓ | Not stated; papers from Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and Google Scholar Android app A native app on Google Play | ✓ | Not yet; iOS only, Android "soon" per scispace.com App in 7 languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic | ✓ | iOS app in English only Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated; quizzes and study guides from your own files Clinical calculators CHA₂DS₂-VASc, CURB-65, MELD and more | On getaskmed.com, each from its original paper | Not stated; research calculators such as Cronbach's alpha ## References - SciSpace homepage, scispace.com (accessed Nov 7, 2026) - SciSpace pricing, scispace.com (accessed Nov 7, 2026) - SciSpace Agent credit pricing and usage guide, scispace.com (accessed Nov 7, 2026) - SciSpace mobile app, scispace.com (accessed Nov 7, 2026) - SciSpace, US App Store listing (accessed Nov 7, 2026) - SciSpace data sources, scispace.com (accessed Nov 7, 2026) - SciSpace BioMed Agent, scispace.com (accessed Nov 7, 2026) - SciSpace Agent Gallery, scispace.com (accessed Nov 7, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-elicit Title: AskMed vs Elicit: Elicit AI Review and Alternative Compare · Updated 7 November 2026 # AskMed vs Elicit AskMed and Elicit are both AI tools that answer questions with citations to published research, but they are built for different jobs. Elicit calls itself AI for scientific research: Elicit searches over 138 million academic papers from Semantic Scholar, PubMed and OpenAlex, writes research reports with sentence-level citations, and automates the screening and data extraction of systematic reviews. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to its source. This page compares the two on who each is built for, which sources each searches, how each weighs evidence, apps, languages, exam prep and price. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account and no license number. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of Elicit on seven features, each checked in November 2026 against Elicit's website, pricing page and help center, and against the US App Store and Google Play. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while Elicit's pages speak to researchers and don't name clinicians, nurses, pharmacists or students. Second, AskMed searches clinical guidelines from health agencies such as NICE, WHO and CDC, while Elicit's help center describes a corpus of academic papers and US trial registrations. Third, AskMed checks FDA and DailyMed drug labels and registries such as the EMA. Fourth, AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, while Elicit's help center says Elicit does not yet know how to judge whether one paper is more trustworthy than another. Fifth, AskMed has apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. Sixth, AskMed comes in seven languages. Seventh, AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams. Each card below shows one row. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: No license needed Elicit: Researchers; clinicians, nurses, pharmacists and students not named ### Guidelines from health agencies NICE, USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ECDC, ESC AskMed: ✓ Elicit: Not stated; searches academic papers and US trials ### Drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk AskMed: ✓ Elicit: Not stated ### Ranks the evidence for you Guidelines first, then systematic reviews AskMed: ✓ Elicit: Doesn't yet judge which paper is more trustworthy, per its help center ### Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android Plus the web, with one account AskMed: ✓ Elicit: Web only; no app on the App Store or Google Play ### App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic AskMed: ✓ Elicit: "Designed for use in English" ### Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Elicit: Not stated ## How much does Elicit cost? Elicit has no app on the US App Store or Google Play, so these prices come from Elicit's own pricing page, checked in November 2026, in US dollars per user. Elicit shows two price lists, Academic and Industry. On the academic list, Elicit Plus costs $19 a month, or $11 a month billed as $132 a year; Elicit Pro, the plan Elicit labels for systematic reviews, costs $69 a month or $468 a year; and Elicit Scale, labeled for collaboration, costs $149 a month or $1,068 a year. The industry list has no Plus plan: Elicit Pro costs $75 a month or $588 a year, and Elicit Scale costs $375 a month or $2,748 a year. Enterprise pricing for companies and schools is custom. Elicit's Systematic Review workflow comes only with Pro, Scale and Enterprise. AskMed Pro costs $129.99 a year, with one account for iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. AskMed Pro $129.99/year - Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels - Research Mode, up to 20 papers - Source filters, PDF and image attachments - iPhone, iPad, Android and web Elicit paid plans $132 to $2,748 a year - Academic: Plus $19/month or $132/year; Pro $69/month or $468/year; Scale $149/month or $1,068/year - Industry: Pro $75/month or $588/year; Scale $375/month or $2,748/year - Per user, from elicit.com/pricing; web only AskMed Pro · $129.99 Elicit Plus, academic · $132 Elicit Pro, academic · $468 Elicit Pro, industry · $588 Elicit Scale, academic · $1,068 Elicit Scale, industry · $2,748 Yearly price per user in US dollars, billed annually. Elicit prices from elicit.com/pricing, checked November 2026; Elicit's Systematic Review workflow starts with Pro. ## What is Elicit AI? Elicit AI is a research assistant that finds, summarizes and extracts data from academic papers. Elicit's homepage calls it AI for scientific research and says Elicit is trusted by over 5 million researchers. According to Elicit's help center, Elicit searches over 138 million academic papers from Semantic Scholar, PubMed and OpenAlex, covering all academic disciplines and updated weekly, and it can search US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov; the homepage counts 545,000 clinical trials. Elicit reads the full text of open access papers and otherwise works from the title and abstract. Its main tools are a Research Agent, research reports that Elicit says follow a process inspired by systematic reviews, paper search, a library, Routines and a Systematic Review workflow for screening and data extraction. Elicit says it supports every AI-generated claim with sentence-level citations from the underlying sources. Elicit lists pharmaceuticals, academia and medical devices among the industries it serves, and Elicit runs in a web browser. ## Elicit AI review: strengths and limits A fair Elicit AI review starts with what Elicit does best: literature work at scale. Elicit's Systematic Review workflow walks through search, title and abstract screening, optional full-text screening, data extraction and a final report, and Pro users can add up to 5,000 papers to one review, Scale users up to 20,000 and Enterprise users up to 40,000. Keyword search accepts Boolean strings, extraction tables put data from many papers side by side, and Elicit says it can find up to 1,000 relevant papers and analyze up to 20,000 data points at once. Elicit is also open about its limits. Its help center says Elicit is designed for use in English and doesn't include books, dissertations or non-academic publications. It also says Elicit does not yet know how to evaluate whether one paper is more trustworthy than another, so Elicit summarizes the findings of a bad study just like those of a good study, and it advises searching several sides of a question. ## Is Elicit AI good for medical research? Elicit AI is good for medical research that starts from the primary literature, such as scoping a review, screening thousands of abstracts or building an evidence table. PubMed, which Elicit's help center counts at over 33 million citations, is one of Elicit's three paper sources, and Elicit's filters can limit results to randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews or meta-analyses, set publication years and keep only journals in a chosen SCImago Journal Rank quartile. Elicit's help center says Elicit has focused on empirical research, such as randomized controlled trials in the social sciences or biomedicine. What Elicit's pages don't describe is a clinical answer built from guidelines and drug labels: its sources are academic papers and US trial registrations. For a bedside question, a nurse's monitoring check, a pharmacist's label lookup or a student's revision topic, a tool that searches clinical guidelines and drug labels directly, and puts them ahead of single studies, fits the job better. ## How do AskMed and Elicit answer a medical question differently? AskMed and Elicit both cite their answers, but AskMed searches medical guidelines and drug labels alongside journals and ranks the evidence before writing. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ECDC and ESC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels, plus official registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk for local brand names; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed prefers guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then review articles and references, then large trials and other studies, and prefers sources from the last 10 years. When sources disagree, the AskMed answer says so and says which evidence is stronger. Elicit searches 138 million academic papers across every field and, by its own account, leaves the weighing to you, with citation counts, journal and study type as heuristics. - A cited answer. Every claim in an AskMed answer links to its source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase, instead of answering from memory. - Research Mode. AskMed reads up to 20 papers for one question, for a journal club, a gap in the guidelines or a patient who doesn't match the trial population. - Source filters. Turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, choose study types and set 3 to 12 sources per answer. - Your own files. Attach a PDF or an image to a question, and AskMed cites your file for what the file itself says. - No drug doses. AskMed covers what a drug is used for, how it works, monitoring, side effects and how dosing is adjusted, but never states amounts or schedules; those come from the current label. How AskMed answers lists every source and limit in full, and the best AI for medical literature search compares Elicit with PubMed, Consensus, Scite and others. ## Who can use AskMed and Elicit? AskMed is built for everyone who works or studies in medicine, while Elicit is built for researchers in any field. Elicit's homepage says Elicit is trusted by over 5 million researchers and lists pharmaceuticals, academia and medical devices among its industries, and its academic page says Elicit supports researchers in every academic discipline, with example uses from biology to chemistry. Elicit's pages don't name clinicians, nurses, pharmacists or medical students as audiences, and Elicit's help center says Elicit is designed for use in English. AskMed is made for doctors in every specialty, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and medical researchers, and asks for no license or NPI. One AskMed account works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic, and AskMed searches NICE, WHO, ECDC and ESC guidance alongside US sources such as the CDC and the USPSTF. A student on a ward rotation and a consultant use the same app. ## Is AskMed a good Elicit AI alternative? AskMed is a strong Elicit AI alternative for anyone whose question is clinical rather than a literature review. Choose AskMed if you want a cited answer drawn from guidelines, systematic reviews and drug labels in one step, with the evidence already ranked; if you need a local brand name checked in a registry such as the EMA or medicines.org.uk; if you want an app on iPhone, iPad or Android; or if you work in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese or Arabic. Choose AskMed if you study for a licensing exam such as PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG or the PLE, since AskMed includes question banks for 10 exams with an explanation for every option. Elicit stays the tool built for a different job: screening thousands of papers, extracting data into tables and running a systematic review, with Pro plans from $468 a year. Many researchers can use both: Elicit for the formal review, AskMed for a quick cited answer or a guideline check. For another AI answer engine that cites its sources, see AskMed vs Perplexity. ## Bottom line For most people who work or study in medicine, AskMed is the stronger choice over Elicit for cited answers to medical questions. Elicit is a capable research assistant: Elicit searches 138 million academic papers from Semantic Scholar, PubMed and OpenAlex, screens papers and extracts data for systematic reviews, and cites its claims sentence by sentence. But Elicit's corpus is academic papers and US trial registrations, its help center says Elicit doesn't yet judge which paper is more trustworthy and is designed for English, and Elicit has no app on the US App Store or Google Play. AskMed searches journals, clinical guidelines from bodies such as NICE, WHO and CDC, and FDA drug labels, ranks guidelines first, links every claim to its source and never gives drug doses. AskMed works with no license number on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in seven languages, and includes question banks for 10 licensing exams. AskMed Pro costs $129.99 a year. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is AskMed better than Elicit? For cited answers to medical questions, yes, for most people in medicine. AskMed searches clinical guidelines and drug labels as well as journals, ranks guidelines first, works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web in seven languages, and includes question banks for 10 licensing exams. Elicit is built for literature reviews across every academic field. Q: What is Elicit AI used for? Elicit describes itself as AI for scientific research. Researchers use Elicit to search over 138 million academic papers, chat with and summarize papers, generate research reports with sentence-level citations, and screen papers and extract data for systematic reviews. Q: Is Elicit AI good for medical research? Elicit is useful for medical research that starts from the primary literature, such as screening abstracts or building an evidence table, and PubMed is one of its sources. Elicit's pages don't describe searching clinical guidelines or drug labels, and its help center says Elicit doesn't yet judge which paper is more trustworthy. Q: How much does Elicit cost compared with AskMed? On Elicit's pricing page, paid plans run from $132 a year for Plus on the academic list to $2,748 a year for Scale on the industry list, per user. Elicit Pro, the plan for systematic reviews, costs $468 a year for academics and $588 a year for industry. AskMed Pro costs $129.99 a year. Q: Does Elicit have a mobile app? We found no Elicit app on the US App Store or Google Play in November 2026; Elicit runs in a web browser. AskMed has apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, and one account also works on the web. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Elicit Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | No license needed | Researchers; clinicians, nurses, pharmacists and students not named Guidelines from health agencies NICE, USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ECDC, ESC | ✓ | Not stated; searches academic papers and US trials Drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk | ✓ | Not stated Ranks the evidence for you Guidelines first, then systematic reviews | ✓ | Doesn't yet judge which paper is more trustworthy, per its help center Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android Plus the web, with one account | ✓ | Web only; no app on the App Store or Google Play App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic | ✓ | "Designed for use in English" Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated ## References - Elicit: AI for research & decision-making, elicit.com (checked November 2026) - Pricing, elicit.com (checked November 2026) - AI for academic research, elicit.com (checked November 2026) - Elicit's source for papers, Elicit help center (checked November 2026) - Elicit's limitations, Elicit help center (checked November 2026) - Languages other than English, Elicit help center (checked November 2026) - Systematic Reviews in Elicit, Elicit help center (checked November 2026) - Filtering in Elicit, Elicit help center (checked November 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-consensus Title: AskMed vs Consensus: Consensus AI Review and Alternative Compare · Updated 7 November 2026 # AskMed vs Consensus AskMed and Consensus both answer questions with citations to published research. Consensus, made by Consensus NLP Inc., describes itself as AI search for research: its Google Play listing says it searches 400M+ peer-reviewed papers across every academic field and synthesizes what they say, citing the papers sentence by sentence, and its Medical Mode narrows a search to about 8 million papers and 50,000 clinical guidelines from the top 1,000 medical journals. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to its source. This page compares the two on who each is built for, where the evidence comes from, drug labels, apps, exam prep, calculators and price, with every Consensus fact checked November 2026 on Consensus's own website, help center and app listing. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of Consensus on six features, each checked in November 2026 against Consensus's website, its help center, its Google Play listing and a search of the US App Store. First, AskMed is built only for medicine, for students as well as clinicians, while Consensus serves research in every academic field and its Google Play listing names researchers, clinicians and graduate students writing literature reviews. Second, AskMed searches medical sources on every question, while Consensus users pick Medical Mode in the search bar. Third, AskMed has native iPhone and iPad apps, and a search of the US App Store found no Consensus app. Fourth, AskMed checks FDA and DailyMed drug labels and registries such as the EMA, which Consensus's pages don't state. Fifth, AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams. Sixth, getaskmed.com offers clinical calculators built from their original papers. Consensus has real strengths for literature reviews, covered below. Each card shows one row. ### Built only for medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: Everyone in medicine, no license needed Consensus: Researchers, clinicians and graduate students in every field; licensing-exam candidates not named ### Medical sources on every question No search mode to switch on AskMed: ✓ Consensus: Medical Mode chosen in the search bar; "All" covers every field ### iPhone and iPad app A native app on the App Store AskMed: ✓ Consensus: Not on the US App Store; web and Android ### Drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA and medicines.org.uk AskMed: ✓ Consensus: Not stated; searches papers and clinical guidelines ### Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Consensus: Not stated ### Clinical calculators CHA₂DS₂-VASc, CURB-65, MELD and more AskMed: On getaskmed.com, each from its original paper Consensus: Not stated ## What is Consensus AI? Consensus AI is an AI academic search engine from Consensus NLP Inc., a Boston company, that finds, ranks and summarizes peer-reviewed research. Consensus's website calls it an AI academic search engine for peer-reviewed literature, and its help center says the paper data comes from Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Consensus's own crawl of the scholarly web and publisher partnerships with Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Sage, AAAS, Oxford University Press and others. Each answer cites the papers it drew from, sentence by sentence. For a yes-or-no question, the Consensus Meter shows how many studies support a claim, contest it or are inconclusive. Study Snapshots pull out methods, duration, outcomes and results, and filters narrow results by study design, sample size, journal rank, citation count and publication year. Consensus runs in the browser, as an Android app called Consensus: AI for Research, and inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Microsoft 365 Copilot through its connectors. ## Consensus AI review: strengths and limits A fair Consensus AI review starts with what Consensus is built for: finding and synthesizing the research literature. Consensus's help center says it searches real papers before any AI writes a response, uses separate checker models to drop papers that aren't relevant, excludes retracted papers from its analyses, and shows a supporting quote from the paper for every citation. According to its Google Play listing, Pro works through 20 papers for a synthesis, while Deep builds a search strategy, reviews up to 50 papers and returns a structured literature review. Library tools import from Zotero and export citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard and BibTeX. Consensus is also open about its limits: its help center says a summary is a snapshot of the research Consensus can access rather than all research on a question, and that AI can misread a paper. Its notes for AI tools say Consensus is not medical advice and does not interpret the literature for any individual case. ## Is Consensus AI good for medical questions? Consensus AI is good at showing what published studies say about a medical question, while AskMed is built to answer the clinical question from the full range of medical sources. Consensus's Medical Mode narrows a search to about 8 million papers and 50,000 clinical guidelines from the top 1,000 medical journals, chosen by impact factor, SJR and rigor scores, and Consensus says Medical Mode is built for clinicians, healthcare professionals and medical researchers. Consensus ranks results by study design, citation count, journal quality and recency. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources on every question: PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidance from NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ECDC, ESC and KDIGO; FDA and DailyMed drug labels, plus registries such as the EMA and medicines.org.uk; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and gives the year of each guideline it cites. - A cited answer. Every claim in an AskMed answer links to its source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase, instead of answering from memory. - Source filters. Turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, pick study types, and set 3 to 12 sources per answer. - Research Mode. AskMed reads up to 20 papers for one question, for a journal club, a gap in the guidelines or a patient who doesn't match the trial population. - No drug doses. AskMed covers what a drug is used for, how it works, monitoring, side effects and how dosing is adjusted, but never states amounts or schedules; those come from the current label. How AskMed answers lists every source and limit in full, and the best AI for medical literature search compares Consensus with PubMed, Elicit and other search tools. ## Who are AskMed and Consensus built for? AskMed is built for everyone who works or studies in medicine, while Consensus is built for research in every academic field. Consensus's Google Play listing names three groups: researchers keeping up with a field, clinicians checking the evidence before a decision, and graduate students writing literature reviews. Its help center article on how students use Consensus covers getting oriented in a research area, building a literature review, comparing studies and checking a draft, and doesn't mention students preparing for licensing exams. AskMed asks for no license or NPI, so a medical student on a ward rotation, a pharmacist reviewing an interaction, a nurse checking a monitoring plan and a researcher scoping a question use the same app as a consultant physician. AskMed answers in the terms a colleague would use, cites guidance from NICE, WHO, ECDC and ESC alongside US sources such as the CDC and the USPSTF, and works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account, in seven languages. ## How much does Consensus cost? Consensus sells its paid plans on its website, and Consensus's help center lists Pro at $20 a month or $144 a year and Deep at $65 a month or $540 a year, checked November 2026. Pro includes unlimited Pro messages and 15 Deep reviews a month; Deep raises that to 200 Deep reviews a month and is aimed at power users, researchers and clinicians who run frequent literature reviews. Teams pricing depends on team size, and Enterprise is quoted by sales for organizations with more than 200 users. Consensus has no app on the US App Store, so there are no US App Store prices to show: a search of the US store in November 2026 found no app from Consensus NLP Inc. AskMed Pro costs $129.99 a year, with one account for iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Over a year, AskMed Pro costs less than Consensus Pro or Consensus Deep. AskMed Pro $129.99/year - Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels - Research Mode, up to 20 papers - Source filters, PDF and image attachments - iPhone, iPad, Android and web Consensus Pro and Deep $20 to $65/month or $144 to $540/year - Pro: $20/month or $144/year, 15 Deep reviews a month - Deep: $65/month or $540/year, 200 Deep reviews a month - Sold on consensus.app; not on the US App Store - Web and Android AskMed Pro · $129.99 Consensus Pro · $144 Consensus Deep · $540 Yearly price in US dollars for one person. Consensus prices from its help center's Subscription Plans page, checked November 2026. ## Does Consensus help with medical exams? AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams, and none of the Consensus pages checked for this comparison, from its website and help center to its Google Play listing, mention exam question banks. AskMed's banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, and each bank is written in the language of its exam, such as French for EDN, Spanish for ENARM and Turkish for TUS. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and cites one to three published sources. A timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. The questions are written in advance and reviewed before they are served, never generated by AI while you study. When a question exposes a gap, you can ask AskMed in the same app, get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, and return to the bank. The best AI apps for USMLE and the best AI apps for PLAB 1 compare AskMed with dedicated question banks. ## Is AskMed a good Consensus AI alternative? AskMed is a strong Consensus AI alternative for anyone whose main need is a cited answer to a medical question rather than a literature review. Choose AskMed if you want medical sources searched on every question with no mode to switch on, drug facts checked against FDA and DailyMed labels and registries such as the EMA and medicines.org.uk, guidance from NICE, WHO and the USPSTF ranked ahead of single studies, and an answer that says so when no source supports it. Choose AskMed if you want a native iPhone and iPad app, question banks for 10 licensing exams, or clinical calculators such as CHA₂DS₂-VASc, CURB-65 and MELD, each built from its original paper. Consensus fits a different job: searching the academic literature across every field, mapping where studies agree with the Consensus Meter, and building structured literature reviews from up to 50 papers with Deep, with Zotero import and citation export. AskMed doesn't diagnose patients, give drug doses or replace reading the paper. For another AI search engine compared on medical questions, see AskMed vs Perplexity. ## Bottom line For most people who work or study in medicine and want cited answers to clinical questions, AskMed is the stronger choice over Consensus. Consensus is a capable AI search engine for the academic literature, with a Medical Mode, the Consensus Meter and Deep literature reviews, but Consensus serves every academic field, has no app on the US App Store, and its pages don't state drug label sources, exam question banks or clinical calculators. AskMed is built only for medicine, for doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers alike, with no license number. AskMed searches journals, guidelines, FDA and DailyMed drug labels and registries such as the EMA on every question, ranks guidelines first, links every claim to its source, says so when no source supports an answer and never gives drug doses. AskMed adds question banks for 10 licensing exams, works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web in seven languages, and AskMed Pro costs $129.99 a year against $144 for Consensus Pro. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is AskMed better than Consensus? For cited answers to medical questions, yes, for most people in medicine. AskMed searches medical sources and drug labels on every question, has native iPhone and iPad apps, includes question banks for 10 licensing exams, and costs less per year than Consensus Pro. Consensus is built for literature reviews across every academic field. Q: What is Consensus AI used for? Consensus describes itself as AI search for research. It searches peer-reviewed papers, synthesizes what they say with a citation after each sentence, shows how studies divide on a yes-or-no question with the Consensus Meter, and builds structured literature reviews with its Deep feature. Q: Is Consensus AI good for medical questions? Consensus's Medical Mode searches about 8 million papers and 50,000 clinical guidelines from the top 1,000 medical journals, so it can show what studies say. Its pages don't state drug label sources, and its notes for AI tools say Consensus does not interpret the literature for any individual case. AskMed adds FDA and DailyMed labels, drug registries and clinical references. Q: Does Consensus have an iPhone app? A search of the US App Store in November 2026 found no Consensus app from Consensus NLP Inc. Consensus has an Android app on Google Play, and its help center explains how to add the Consensus website to an iPhone home screen. AskMed has native apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, plus the web. Q: How much does Consensus cost compared with AskMed? Consensus's help center lists Pro at $20 a month or $144 a year and Deep at $65 a month or $540 a year. AskMed Pro is $129.99 a year. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Consensus Built only for medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | Everyone in medicine, no license needed | Researchers, clinicians and graduate students in every field; licensing-exam candidates not named Medical sources on every question No search mode to switch on | ✓ | Medical Mode chosen in the search bar; "All" covers every field iPhone and iPad app A native app on the App Store | ✓ | Not on the US App Store; web and Android Drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA and medicines.org.uk | ✓ | Not stated; searches papers and clinical guidelines Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated Clinical calculators CHA₂DS₂-VASc, CURB-65, MELD and more | On getaskmed.com, each from its original paper | Not stated ## References - Consensus: AI for Research, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 6, 2026) - Subscription Plans, Consensus help center (accessed Nov 6, 2026) - Medical Mode, Consensus help center (accessed Nov 6, 2026) - Consensus Research Database, Consensus help center (accessed Nov 6, 2026) - Responsible AI and limitations, Consensus help center (accessed Nov 6, 2026) - Advanced Search Filters, Consensus help center (accessed Nov 6, 2026) - The top 5 ways students use Consensus, Consensus help center (accessed Nov 6, 2026) - How to add Consensus to your mobile home screen, Consensus help center (accessed Nov 6, 2026) - Consensus product changelog, Consensus help center (accessed Nov 6, 2026) - Consensus llms.txt and llms-full.txt, consensus.app (accessed Nov 6, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-glass-health Title: AskMed vs Glass Health: Glass AI Review and Alternative Compare · updated Nov 6, 2026 # AskMed vs Glass Health AskMed and Glass Health are both AI tools that answer clinical questions with citations to published evidence. Glass Health, listed on the US App Store as Glass for Clinicians, describes Glass as an AI clinical decision support co-pilot that generates answers to clinical questions, differential diagnoses and evidence-based treatment plans, and its app listings say Glass is intended solely for licensed healthcare professionals. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to its source. This page compares the two on who can use them, how each answers, which sources you control, drug registries, exam prep, advertising and languages. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account and no license number. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of Glass Health on seven features, each checked in November 2026 against Glass Health's website, its US App Store listing and its Google Play listing. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, students and researchers included, while Glass Health's app listings say Glass is intended solely for licensed healthcare professionals. Second, AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams, and Glass Health's own comparison with AMBOSS lists board exam preparation as "No" for Glass. Third, AskMed carries no pharma advertising, while the Glass App Store listing says the app contains advertising. Fourth, AskMed's source filters let you choose source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources. Fifth, AskMed checks official drug registries outside the US, such as the EMA. Sixth, AskMed says so when it finds no source. Seventh, the AskMed app comes in seven languages, and the Glass App Store listing names English only. Each card below shows one row. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: No license needed Glass Health: Licensed healthcare professionals only, per its app listings ### Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Glass Health: ✗ ### No advertising No ads, no sponsored answers AskMed: ✓ Glass Health: App Store: "Contains Advertising" ### Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ Glass Health: Not stated ### Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names AskMed: ✓ Glass Health: Not stated ### Says so when no source is found No answers from memory AskMed: ✓ Glass Health: Not stated ### App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic AskMed: ✓ Glass Health: English (App Store listing) ## What is Glass Health AI? Glass Health AI is a clinical decision support platform from Glass Health Inc. that drafts differential diagnoses, assessments and plans, and answers to clinical questions for clinicians. The Glass app, listed on the US App Store as Glass for Clinicians with the subtitle "Clinical Decision Support", calls Glass an AI clinical decision support co-pilot that generates answers to clinical questions, differential diagnoses and evidence-based treatment plans. Glass Health's website describes a three-tier differential diagnosis (Most Likely, Expanded and Can't Miss), problem-based assessment and plan drafts with evidence citations, and clinical Q&A that draws on PubMed-indexed literature, current clinical guidelines and FDA drug information, with in-text citations and reference lists. Glass also sells documentation tools and lists Epic, eClinicalWorks, athenahealth and Elation workflows on its highest plan. Glass runs in the browser and as an app on iPhone, iPad and Android. Its app listings say Glass is intended solely for licensed healthcare professionals, and its App Store listing names English as the only language. ## Glass Health AI review: strengths and limits A fair Glass Health AI review starts with what Glass is built for: clinical reasoning inside the patient encounter. Glass Health's own pages say patient context persists across encounters, that you can ask follow-up questions about the patient you just saw with that patient's data already in context, and that a Deep Reasoning mode handles complex multi-system cases. For a physician who wants a structured differential with a can't-miss tier and a drafted plan next to the chart, that design is the point of Glass. Glass Health is also open about its limits on its own site: Glass says it is optimized for workflow-native reasoning and documentation rather than serving as a full-text publisher library, and that physicians who want long-form textbook or journal reading may still use a reference platform alongside it. Glass Health's comparison with AMBOSS lists board exam preparation as "No" for Glass and names practicing physicians and clinical teams as its primary audience. ## How do AskMed and Glass Health answer a clinical question differently? AskMed and Glass Health both write cited answers, but AskMed lets you set the evidence behind each answer and states what happens when none is found. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ECDC and ESC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels, plus official registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk for local brand names; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and prefers sources from the last 10 years. Source filters turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, pick study types and set 3 to 12 sources per answer. Glass Health says its clinical Q&A draws on PubMed-indexed literature, current clinical guidelines and FDA drug information; its pages don't state user-set filters or what happens when no evidence is found. 3 to 12 sources per answer, set with source filters 20 papers read for one question in Research Mode 10 licensing exams with question banks 7 app languages, from English to Arabic AskMed in four numbers, each described on this page. - A cited answer. Every claim in an AskMed answer links to its source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase, instead of answering from memory. - Research Mode. AskMed reads up to 20 papers for one question, for a journal club, a gap in the guidelines or a patient who doesn't match the trial population. - Your own files. Attach a PDF or an image to a question, and AskMed cites your file for what the file itself says. - No drug doses. AskMed covers what a drug is used for, how it works, monitoring, side effects and how dosing is adjusted, but never states amounts or schedules; those come from the current label. How AskMed answers lists every source and limit in full. ## Who can use AskMed and Glass Health? AskMed is built for everyone who works or studies in medicine, while Glass Health is built around licensed clinicians. The Glass app's App Store and Google Play listings both say Glass "is intended solely for use by licensed healthcare professionals", and that by using Glass "you attest that you are a licensed clinician". Glass Health's comparison with AMBOSS names its primary audience as practicing physicians and clinical teams, and its comparison with ClinicalKey says primary care physicians and outpatient specialists managing full patient panels benefit most. AskMed asks for no license or NPI, so a medical student on a ward rotation, a pharmacist reviewing an interaction, a nurse checking a monitoring plan and a researcher scoping a question use the same app as a consultant physician. One AskMed account works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, and AskMed searches NICE, WHO, ECDC and ESC guidance alongside US sources such as the CDC and the USPSTF. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams, and Glass Health's own comparison with AMBOSS lists board exam preparation as "No" for Glass. AskMed's banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, and each bank is written in the language of its exam, such as French for EDN, Spanish for ENARM and Turkish for TUS. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and cites one to three published sources. A timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. The questions are written in advance and reviewed before they are served, never generated by AI while you study. When a question exposes a gap, you can ask AskMed in the same app, get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, and return to the bank. Students and international graduates keep exam practice and clinical answers in one account. The best AI apps for USMLE and the best AI apps for PLAB 1 compare AskMed with dedicated question banks. ## Is AskMed a good Glass Health alternative? AskMed is a strong Glass Health alternative for anyone whose main need is a cited answer to a clinical question rather than a drafted plan inside the encounter. Choose AskMed if you study medicine, work as a nurse or pharmacist, or do research, since Glass Health's app listings limit Glass to licensed healthcare professionals. Choose AskMed if you're preparing for one of 10 licensing exams, want to set source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources on every question, need a local brand name checked in a registry such as the EMA or medicines.org.uk, or want an app with no pharma advertising in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese or Arabic. Glass Health is built around a different job: drafting differentials, assessments and plans, and notes during the visit, with Epic, eClinicalWorks, athenahealth and Elation workflows on its highest plan. AskMed doesn't draft notes, doesn't diagnose patients and doesn't decide treatment; AskMed focuses on cited answers and exam practice. For another evidence tool limited to verified clinicians, see AskMed vs OpenEvidence. ## Bottom line For most people who work or study in medicine, AskMed is the stronger choice over Glass Health for cited clinical answers. Both tools answer clinical questions with citations, but Glass Health's app listings say Glass is intended solely for licensed healthcare professionals, Glass Health's own comparison page lists no board exam preparation, and its App Store listing says the app contains advertising and names English as its only language. AskMed works worldwide with no license number, for doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers alike, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account. AskMed lets you set source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources on every question, checks drug registries outside the US such as the EMA, says so when no source supports an answer, and never gives drug doses. AskMed adds question banks for 10 licensing exams, carries no pharma advertising and comes in seven languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is AskMed better than Glass Health? For cited answers to clinical questions, yes, for most people in medicine. AskMed is open to students and researchers as well as clinicians, lets you set source filters on every question, checks drug registries outside the US, includes question banks for 10 licensing exams and carries no pharma advertising. Q: What is Glass Health AI used for? Glass Health describes Glass as an AI clinical decision support co-pilot for clinicians. Its pages describe three-tier differential diagnoses, assessment and plan drafts with evidence citations, clinical Q&A with in-text citations, and documentation tools tied to the patient encounter. Q: Can medical students use Glass Health? Glass Health's App Store and Google Play listings say Glass is intended solely for use by licensed healthcare professionals, and that by using Glass you attest that you are a licensed clinician. AskMed is built for medical students as well as doctors, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Q: Does Glass Health have exam prep? Glass Health's own comparison with AMBOSS lists board exam preparation as "No" for Glass. AskMed includes question banks for PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, with an explanation for every option and timed mocks. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Glass Health Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | No license needed | Licensed healthcare professionals only, per its app listings Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | ✗ No advertising No ads, no sponsored answers | ✓ | App Store: "Contains Advertising" Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names | ✓ | Not stated Says so when no source is found No answers from memory | ✓ | Not stated App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic | ✓ | English (App Store listing) ## References - Glass for Clinicians, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 5, 2026) - Glass Health, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 5, 2026) - AMBOSS LiSA vs Glass Health, glass.health (accessed Nov 5, 2026) - ClinicalKey AI vs Glass Health: Reference vs Workflow, glass.health (accessed Nov 5, 2026) - Best Clinical Decision Support Tools for 2026, glass.health (accessed Nov 5, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-medical-literature-search Title: Best AI for Medical Literature Search in 2026 | AskMed # Best AI for Medical Literature Search Our pick first, then six other tools side by side, and how to search the medical literature well. Updated 3 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for medical literature search because it searches PubMed, Cochrane and major journals and writes a cited answer in one step. Filters keep only the study types you want. Journals | PubMed, PubMed Central, Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ and 11 specialty journals Guidelines | NICE, USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ECDC, ESC, KDIGO, GINA, GOLD, IDSA, ACOG and more Drug labels | FDA and DailyMed Sources per answer | 8 by default, any number from 3 to 12 Citations | A link after every claim, to the exact page Study filters | Systematic reviews and meta-analyses, review articles, clinical trials, other studies Research Mode | Reads the full text of the most relevant result Your files | Attach a PDF or image to a question Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## How do the other tools compare? Six other tools are worth comparing with AskMed for medical literature search: PubMed, Elicit, Consensus, Semantic Scholar, Scite and OpenEvidence. They do different jobs. PubMed is the search engine itself, with more than 40 million citations from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books, and it returns a list of articles rather than a written answer. Elicit, Consensus and Semantic Scholar search very large academic databases that cover every field of science, from 138 million papers in Elicit to over 400 million scholarly sources in Consensus. Scite shows how later papers have cited a study. OpenEvidence answers clinical questions for verified healthcare professionals, and its App Store page says an NPI is required. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical journals, guidelines and drug labels and cites every claim, so the answer is already narrowed to medicine. The table shows what each tool searches and what it is best for. Tool | What it searches | Best for AskMed | Medical journals, Cochrane, guidelines, drug labels and references | A cited answer from medical sources, with study-type filters PubMed | 40M+ citations from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books | Complete, reproducible searches with MeSH and filters Elicit | 138M+ papers from Semantic Scholar, PubMed and OpenAlex, plus ClinicalTrials.gov | Screening papers and extracting data for a review Consensus | 400M+ scholarly sources; Medical Mode narrows to about 8 million papers and guidelines | Seeing how far studies agree on a yes/no question Semantic Scholar | 200M+ academic papers in all fields | Browsing a topic and following citations Scite | 1.6B+ citation statements | Checking whether later research supported or contrasted a paper OpenEvidence | 35M+ peer-reviewed papers, 300+ journals, FDA and CDC | Clinical questions for verified healthcare professionals ## The six tools in detail PubMed, Elicit, Consensus, Semantic Scholar, Scite and OpenEvidence each solve a different part of a literature search, so the right choice depends on the task in front of you. A resident preparing a journal club needs the key trials and a summary of what they found. A researcher starting a systematic review needs a complete, documented search and help screening thousands of abstracts. A clinician between patients needs a short answer with sources that can be opened and checked. The notes below say what each tool does, using the numbers each company states on its own website or App Store page as of 3 November 2026. Corpus sizes are not directly comparable, because PubMed counts biomedical citations while Elicit, Consensus and Semantic Scholar count papers from every academic field. For how AskMed picks and cites its sources, see How AskMed answers. ### PubMed PubMed, from the US National Library of Medicine, holds more than 40 million citations. Its default sort, Best Match, weights each citation by how many of your terms it contains and where, gives recent articles a little more weight, then re-ranks the top results with a machine-learning model. PubMed maps your words to MeSH terms automatically and has filters for article types such as Systematic Review and Randomized Controlled Trial. It gives you citations and abstracts, not a written summary. ### Elicit Elicit searches over 138 million papers from Semantic Scholar, PubMed and OpenAlex, and can search US trials on ClinicalTrials.gov. Its systematic review workflow automates screening and data extraction, and its reports cite claims sentence by sentence. It suits researchers building evidence tables. ### Consensus Consensus searches over 400 million scholarly sources drawn from Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, its own crawl and publisher partners. The Consensus Meter shows how far studies agree on a yes/no question. Medical Mode limits a search to about 8 million papers and guidelines, including roughly 50,000 clinical guidelines, from the top 1,000 medical journals. ### Semantic Scholar Semantic Scholar is run by Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, and indexes over 200 million academic papers. Its TLDRs, one-sentence AI summaries of a paper's main objective and results, cover nearly 60 million papers in computer science, biology and medicine. ### Scite Scite's Smart Citations classify each citation statement as supporting, contrasting or mentioning, across more than 1.6 billion of them. Before you lean on a single trial, Scite shows whether later studies backed it up or disputed it. ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence answers clinical questions with every claim cited, from more than 35 million peer-reviewed papers, 300+ medical journals and FDA and CDC sources, and names NEJM, JAMA and Cochrane among its content partners. Users must verify their healthcare professional status first, and the App Store listing says an NPI is required. ## How do you search the medical literature? To search the medical literature well, turn your question into PICO, map each part to MeSH terms and free-text synonyms, combine them with Boolean operators, then filter by study design. PICO stands for Population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome. For example: in adults with type 2 diabetes (P), do SGLT2 inhibitors (I), compared with placebo (C), reduce hospitalisation for heart failure (O)? Each part becomes a block of search terms. In PubMed, MeSH terms are the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary, and a MeSH search automatically includes the narrower terms beneath it. Article type filters such as Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Randomized Controlled Trial then cut the results to the strongest designs. Start with systematic reviews and guidelines, because they have already gathered the trials, and go to single studies only when the reviews are missing or out of date. The steps below show the method on that example. - Write the question as PICO. Leave the comparison out if there isn't one. Add the outcome to the search only when the results are too many, since abstracts don't always name every outcome. - Find the MeSH terms. Look each concept up in the MeSH database: "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2"[Mesh], "Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 Inhibitors"[Mesh], "Heart Failure"[Mesh]. Use [majr] to keep articles where the term is a major topic, and [mh:noexp] to stop PubMed adding narrower terms. - Add free-text synonyms. The newest articles may not have MeSH terms yet, so add words searched in titles and abstracts, such as SGLT2[tiab] OR empagliflozin[tiab] OR dapagliflozin[tiab]. - Combine with OR and AND. Use OR within a concept and AND between concepts, and wrap each concept in brackets so PubMed reads them in the right order. - Filter by study design. Tick Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis or Randomized Controlled Trial in the sidebar, or use Clinical Queries, which offers ready-made Therapy, Diagnosis, Etiology, Prognosis and Clinical Prediction Guides filters with a narrow or broad scope. - Check the Cochrane Library. A Cochrane review may already answer an intervention question. For your own systematic review, search more than one database: Cochrane reviews of interventions search at least CENTRAL, MEDLINE and Embase. - Save the exact search. Record every string, filter and date. PRISMA 2020 asks systematic reviews to report the full search strategy for each database. AskMed does the first steps for you on a quick question: it writes the search query in precise medical terms rather than copying your wording, prefers guidelines, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then reviews and large trials, and favours sources from the last 10 years unless the topic is settled basic science. ## What to look for in an AI literature search tool A good AI tool for medical literature search should show you exactly where each claim comes from, search sources you would trust yourself, and let you control the type of evidence. Five checks separate the tools. First, citations should be links to the specific paper or page, attached to the sentence they support, not a reading list at the end. Second, the tool should say what it searches: a fixed list of medical journals and guidelines, or the whole academic literature across every field. Third, you should be able to filter by study design, so a systematic review isn't buried under case reports. Fourth, the tool should say plainly when it finds no good evidence instead of filling the gap. Fifth, clinical questions often need more than papers, so guidelines and drug labels matter too. The list below shows how AskMed meets each of the five checks, using the features of its standard answers. - Claim-level citations. AskMed puts a link after each sentence or clause, using the exact address of the source it found, and is told never to invent studies, statistics or web addresses. - A known list of sources. AskMed searches only its fixed list of journals, guideline bodies, drug label sites and medical references, not forums or social media. - Study-type control. The source filters turn journals, guidelines, drug labels and references on or off, and choose among systematic reviews and meta-analyses, review articles, clinical trials and other studies. - No source, no answer. If the search finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase, rather than answering from memory. - More than papers. One answer can cite a trial, the current NICE guideline and the FDA label together. When sources disagree, the answer says which evidence is stronger. If you are choosing between AI medical search apps, see AskMed vs MediSearch. If you are studying for a licensing exam, see the best AI apps for USMLE. ## Questions Q: Can an AI tool replace a systematic search for a systematic review? An AI tool cannot replace the documented database search that a systematic review needs, but it can speed up the work around it. A systematic review must be reproducible, so the search strategy for each database is written out in full and reported, as PRISMA 2020 requires, and Cochrane reviews of interventions search at least MEDLINE, Embase and CENTRAL. AI tools help at other stages. Elicit automates screening and data extraction, Scite shows how a paper has been cited since, and AskMed gives a cited overview of a topic that helps you choose search terms and spot the key trials and guidelines before you write the strategy. Keep the formal search in the databases themselves, record every string and date, and use AI answers to scope the question and check what you found. Always read the full text of any study you include. Q: Does AskMed make up references? AskMed cites only what its search found. Each link uses the exact address of a retrieved source, and an answer that cites no source at all is replaced with a message saying no medical source was found. Open the citation behind any claim you plan to use. Q: Which sources does AskMed search? PubMed and PubMed Central, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ and 11 specialty journals; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ESC, KDIGO and IDSA; FDA and DailyMed drug labels; and references such as StatPearls, the MSD Manuals and BMJ Best Practice. Q: Can I limit AskMed to systematic reviews or trials? Yes. The source filters let you choose systematic reviews and meta-analyses, review articles, clinical trials or other studies, turn source types on or off, and set the number of sources from 3 to 12. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never states medication doses. It covers what a drug is used for, how it works, side effects and monitoring, and exact dosing comes from the current prescribing information. Q: Which devices and languages does it work in? iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account on all of them. The app is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-medical-students Title: Best AI for Medical Students: Study and Wards | AskMed # Best AI for Medical Students: Study and Wards Our pick first, then six tools medical students use, for studying and for clinical rotations. Updated 3 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for medical students because it covers both jobs in one app: exam practice with explained questions, and cited answers to clinical questions on the wards. Answers | Cited from journals, guidelines and drug labels, a link after every claim Exam questions | 5,499 across 11 exams, each in the exam's own language Explanations | One for every option, with 1–3 sources Modes | Practice, spaced-repetition review, timed mock (40 questions in 60 minutes) Files | Attach a PDF or image to a question Doses | Never Languages | English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## Which AI tools do medical students use? Medical students mostly reach for seven tools, and each one does a different job. AskMed pairs cited answers to medical questions with exam question banks. Anki is a flashcard program that schedules each card for review when you are about to forget it, using the SM2 or FSRS algorithm. AMBOSS combines a question bank of more than 13,900 questions with a library of clinician-written articles and an AI Mode. Osmosis is built around short medical videos, flashcards and exam-style questions, with an AI that answers from Elsevier medical textbooks. Lecturio is a video lecture library with a question bank and an AI tutor. ChatGPT is a general AI chatbot with a study mode that guides you step by step, but it is not limited to medical sources. OpenEvidence is a clinical AI search engine for verified healthcare professionals. The table below shows what each tool is for, in study and on the wards. Tool | Type | For studying | On the wards AskMed | Cited AI answers + exam question banks | 5,499 questions across 11 exams, an explanation for every option, spaced review | Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels Anki | Flashcard program | Your own or shared decks, scheduled with SM2 or FSRS | Not a clinical reference AMBOSS | Question bank + medical library | 13,900+ questions for USMLE, COMLEX, Shelf and PANCE, plus an Anki add-on | Clerkship guides for every rotation and AI Mode Osmosis | Videos + flashcards + questions | Thousands of videos, 450+ summary notes, Osmosis AI | Videos and questions downloaded for offline study Lecturio | Video lectures + question bank | Video courses, a question bank with an AI tutor, Smart Recall Quizzes | Not stated ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Study mode: step-by-step guidance and knowledge checks | Not limited to medical sources, so check every claim OpenEvidence | Clinical AI search | Not stated | Cited answers for verified healthcare professionals ### Anki Anki is an open-source flashcard program that shows each card again when you are most likely to forget it, using the SM2 or FSRS scheduling algorithm. The computer version runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, AnkiDroid runs on Android and AnkiMobile on iPhone and iPad, and AnkiWeb syncs them. Anki is not an AI tool and comes with no medical content: you write your own cards or import shared decks. Use it for facts you must memorise. ### AMBOSS AMBOSS has a question bank of 13,900+ questions for USMLE, COMLEX, NBME Shelf, PANCE and in-house exams, linked to clinician-written library articles on 1,500+ topics. Its AI Mode presents differentials, diagnostic pathways and clinical context, and AMBOSS offers a clerkship guide for every rotation. Its Anki add-on shows library pop-ups on your flashcards. ### Osmosis Osmosis is built around thousands of short medical videos, with flashcards, a quiz builder, board-style questions with explanations and 450+ high-yield notes. Its App Store listing covers USMLE Step 1 and Step 2, COMLEX-USA, NCLEX, PANCE and the UKMLA. Osmosis AI answers questions from Elsevier medical textbooks and links them to Osmosis videos, and videos and questions can be downloaded for offline study. ### Lecturio Lecturio is a library of short video lessons by teaching experts, grouped into courses such as clinical neurology and cellular pathology. Its Premium plan adds a question bank with an AI tutor that helps you reason through clinical case questions, performance tracking and an AI Assistant. Smart Recall Quizzes use an adaptive algorithm to show what to repeat and when. ### ChatGPT ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot. Its study mode, on the web, iOS and Android, works through a topic with questions, step-by-step guidance and knowledge checks instead of handing over the answer, which suits explaining a mechanism or quizzing you on your own notes. ChatGPT is not limited to medical sources and has no medical exam question bank, so check any clinical claim against a guideline, textbook or drug label before you rely on it. ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence is a clinical AI search engine whose answers cite peer-reviewed literature, with official content partners including NEJM, JAMA, NCCN and the Cochrane Library. Its App Store listing says it is for healthcare professionals, NPI required, and that users must verify their healthcare professional status. Its registration form lists Medical Student as an occupation, but its website does not explain how students are verified, so check whether you qualify before you plan around it on rotations. ## How should you use AI to study medicine? The best way to study medicine with AI is to use it for active recall rather than for reading summaries. Start with practice questions in the format of your exam, read the explanation for every option, including the ones you got right, and then look up whatever the question exposed. AskMed is built around that loop. Its Exam Prep serves the questions you have not seen first, then the ones you saw longest ago, so you work through a whole bank before questions repeat. Each answer feeds spaced-repetition review: a question you miss comes back after 10 minutes, and each right answer pushes it further out, to 1, 3, 7, 16 and then 35 days. When a lecture or a question leaves a gap, ask AskMed. Paste an exam-style question with its options and the first sentence of the answer names the correct option, then the answer explains why each other option is wrong, with a citation after each claim. - Practise in your exam's format. AskMed's banks cover USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLAB, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, the PLE, UKOMNAS, EDN, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Each exam has about 500 questions across 15 topics, and each is served in the exam's own language. The guides for USMLE, PLAB 1 and the PLE show a sample question from each bank. - Read every explanation. Most of the work in a single-best-answer question is ruling out the options that are almost right. AskMed explains every option, so you learn why each wrong answer is wrong. - Sit timed mocks. AskMed's mock is 40 questions in 60 minutes. Doing a few builds the pace you need on exam day. - Look things up with sources. Ask follow-up questions in AskMed and open the citations. Reading the guideline itself, not only a summary, is what makes a fact stick. ## How can AI help on clinical rotations? On clinical rotations, AI is most useful for quick, checkable answers to the questions that come up on ward rounds, in clinic and before a case presentation: what the current guideline recommends, how two drugs interact, which investigation comes next. An answer only helps if you can check it, so the source matters more than the wording. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources before it writes anything, including PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NICE, WHO, CDC, FDA and DailyMed drug labels and StatPearls, and it does not search forums or social media. Every claim links to its source, the source list labels each one as a Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference, and guideline recommendations come with their year. If no usable source turns up, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. A short follow-up such as "and in pregnancy?" is read together with your previous question, so you can keep asking without repeating the case. - Give the context. Say who the patient is (age, pregnancy, kidney or liver function), the setting and your country, because guidelines and drug approvals differ between countries. - Choose your sources. AskMed's source filters turn journals, guidelines, drug labels and references on or off, and set how many sources an answer uses, from 3 to 12. - Attach what you are reading. Add a PDF or an image, such as a guideline or lecture slide, and AskMed cites your file for what the file itself says. - Get doses from the label. AskMed explains what a drug is for, how it works, monitoring and side effects, but never gives doses. Those come from the current prescribing information or your local formulary. AskMed is a reference for education, not a symptom checker, and it does not diagnose patients or decide treatment. How AskMed answers explains its sources, citations and limits in full. ## How do you use AI for medical study safely? Using AI safely in medical school comes down to one habit: check the source before you learn a fact or act on an answer. AI models can misread a source, miss something important or state an outdated recommendation with confidence, and an answer with no citation gives you nothing to check. Open the citation behind the claim you will rely on and make sure it says what the sentence says, for the same group of patients: a trial in adults does not answer a question about children. Look at the date and the type of source, since a current guideline outweighs an older review and one small study is weaker than a meta-analysis. Follow the guidance for the country where you will practise or sit your exams, because NICE, US and European guidelines can disagree. Take drug doses only from the current prescribing information, and keep names and other identifying patient details out of any AI tool. - Open the citation. In AskMed every claim is followed by its own link, so you check one sentence against one page, not a whole answer at once. - Check the year. AskMed gives the year of every guideline recommendation it states, and when guidance has changed, the answer says what changed and since when. - Learn the reasoning, not the output. Use AI to explain why an answer is right, then close the app and recall it yourself. Recall is what you will need on the ward and in the exam. - Report what looks wrong. Tap the thumbs down under an AskMed answer and pick a reason, or tap Report question on an exam question. A question reported by two or more people is held back until it is checked. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for medical students? AskMed is the best AI for medical students who want one app for both studying and the wards. For exams, AskMed's Exam Prep has 5,499 single-best-answer questions across 11 exams, from USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK to PLAB, NEET-PG and the PLE, with an explanation for every option, one to three sources per question, timed mocks and spaced-repetition review. For clinical questions, AskMed answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels, and every claim links to its source, so you can check an answer before you present it. Other tools do single jobs well: Anki for flashcards, AMBOSS for a large question bank and library, Osmosis and Lecturio for video learning, and ChatGPT for talking a topic through. OpenEvidence answers clinical questions for verified healthcare professionals. Many students pair AskMed with a flashcard program, and the right mix depends on your exam and how you learn. Q: Can I use ChatGPT for medical school? Yes, for explaining concepts and quizzing yourself, especially in its study mode. ChatGPT is not limited to medical sources and has no medical exam question bank, so check every clinical claim against a guideline, textbook or drug label. Q: Is AskMed useful for MBBS students? Yes. AskMed has a 499-question NEET-PG bank for students in India and a 500-question PLAB 1 bank for those heading to the UK, and it answers any medical question with citations. It works worldwide and doesn't need a medical licence. Q: Does AskMed replace Anki or a question bank like AMBOSS? Not necessarily. AskMed's spaced review covers the exam questions you missed, but Anki is still useful for your own cards, and some students use a larger bank alongside AskMed's for their main exam. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed explains what a drug is for, how it works and its side effects, but never gives doses. Exam questions test the right choice of treatment, never doses. Q: Which devices does AskMed work on? iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. One account works on all of them, so you can practise on your phone between patients and review on a laptop. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-uptodate-expert-ai Title: AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI: Review and Cost Compare · updated Nov 6, 2026 # AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI UpToDate Expert AI is the generative AI feature of UpToDate, the clinical reference from Wolters Kluwer, announced on September 24, 2025. UpToDate Expert AI answers clinical questions in a chat and, in Wolters Kluwer's own words, draws exclusively from UpToDate content, including about 3,000 drug topics from UpToDate Lexidrug. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ, NICE, WHO and CDC, along with official drug labels, and links every claim to the source behind the claim. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in seven languages, with no US license or NPI needed. This review compares the two on sources, drug facts, access, exam prep and cost. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of UpToDate Expert AI on six features, each checked in November 2026 against Wolters Kluwer's UpToDate pages, its press releases and the UpToDate Expert AI listing on the US App Store. First, AskMed answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels, while UpToDate Expert AI draws only from UpToDate content. Second, AskMed reads official drug labels such as FDA labels and DailyMed, and UpToDate Expert AI uses UpToDate Lexidrug drug topics. Third, AskMed can be bought by anyone in medicine in any country, while the personal plans that include UpToDate Expert AI are sold in the United States and Canada. Fourth, AskMed's source filters let you choose source types and study types, which Wolters Kluwer's pages don't describe for UpToDate Expert AI. Fifth, AskMed's Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question. Sixth, AskMed includes exam prep for 10 licensing exams. Each card below shows one of the six rows. ### Answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels PubMed, Cochrane, NICE, WHO, FDA labels and more AskMed: ✓ UpToDate Expert AI: UpToDate content only ### Official drug labels as a source Drug facts from the prescribing label AskMed: ✓ UpToDate Expert AI: Lexidrug drug topics ### Personal plan in any country No US license or NPI needed AskMed: ✓ UpToDate Expert AI: Personal plans in the US and Canada ### Source filters Choose source types and study types AskMed: ✓ UpToDate Expert AI: Not stated ### Research Mode Reads up to 20 papers for one question AskMed: ✓ UpToDate Expert AI: Not stated ### Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams UpToDate Expert AI: Not stated ## How much does UpToDate Expert AI cost? On Wolters Kluwer's website, individuals get UpToDate Expert AI as part of an UpToDate subscription rather than as a separate product. Wolters Kluwer's UpToDate Pro page lists UpToDate Pro Plus, the professional package that includes UpToDate Expert AI, at a starting price of $699 a year, against $579 a year for standard UpToDate. Residents, fellows and students can buy the UpToDate trainee subscription, listed at a starting price of $219 a year, which includes UpToDate Expert AI in the United States and Canada but earns no CME, CE or CPD credit. The separate UpToDate Expert AI app on the US App Store lists one in-app purchase, a subscription at $89.00, without stating the billing period, and the app needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. Hospitals and health systems get UpToDate Expert AI through UpToDate Enterprise Edition. AskMed Pro costs $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year, with one account for iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. AskMed Pro $24.99/month or $129.99/year - Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels - Research Mode, up to 20 papers - Source filters, PDF and image attachments - iPhone, iPad, Android and web UpToDate with Expert AI $219 or $699 a year - UpToDate Pro Plus: $699/year starting price - Trainee subscription: $219/year starting price, Expert AI in the US and Canada - UpToDate Expert AI app, US App Store: IAP Subscription $89.00, billing period not shown AskMed Pro · $129.99 UpToDate trainee · $219 UpToDate Pro Plus · $699 Yearly price in US dollars for a personal plan with AI answers. UpToDate prices are the starting prices on Wolters Kluwer's UpToDate Pro page, checked November 2026. ## What is UpToDate Expert AI? UpToDate Expert AI is a generative AI clinical decision support tool from Wolters Kluwer Health, announced on September 24, 2025, that answers clinical questions in a conversational chat. Wolters Kluwer says UpToDate Expert AI draws exclusively from UpToDate's maintained clinical content rather than the open web, shows the sources behind each answer and links back to the UpToDate topics it used. In November 2025, Wolters Kluwer added about 3,000 drug topics from UpToDate Lexidrug, written and curated by pharmacists and clinical experts. UpToDate Expert AI is built for enterprise-wide deployment and can be embedded in electronic health records and other clinical software. In August 2026, Wolters Kluwer reported about 2,500 US hospitals and health systems using UpToDate Expert AI, more than 90% of its US Enterprise Edition customers, plus pilots at more than 230 sites in 36 countries. A separate UpToDate Expert AI app for iPhone, iPad and Android needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. ## Where answers come from AskMed and UpToDate Expert AI answer from different libraries, and that is the biggest difference between the two. UpToDate Expert AI summarizes UpToDate itself: expert-written topic reviews that UpToDate's editors and authors update as they review new journal articles, clinical trials and drug labeling, plus Lexidrug drug topics. Every UpToDate Expert AI answer therefore reflects what UpToDate's editors have already written. AskMed searches the medical literature and guidelines directly: PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ for research, NICE, WHO and CDC for guidelines, and official drug labels. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and links each claim to the source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. UpToDate is not among the sources AskMed searches, so the two tools can sit side by side. For other options, see our list of UpToDate alternatives. ## Drug facts from the label AskMed answers drug questions from official drug labels, the prescribing information approved by the regulator, while UpToDate Expert AI answers drug questions from about 3,000 UpToDate Lexidrug drug topics. Lexidrug is a drug reference written by pharmacists, and Wolters Kluwer says its drug content is built from primary literature, product labeling, pharmacology studies and clinical trials. A drug monograph is still a summary of those sources, while the label is the document the regulator approved, with the indications, contraindications, boxed warnings, interactions and adverse reactions in the approved wording. AskMed reads FDA labels and DailyMed, and for local brand names AskMed also checks official drug registries from many countries, such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk, so a brand name sold in Europe or the UK leads to the right label. Each drug claim in AskMed links to the label's exact web address, so a pharmacist or nurse can open the label. AskMed gives no doses; exact amounts come from the current label. ## Who can get each one? Anyone who works or studies in medicine can sign up for AskMed in any country, while personal access to UpToDate Expert AI depends on where you live and which UpToDate plan you hold. Wolters Kluwer sells the personal plans that include UpToDate Expert AI, UpToDate Pro Plus and the trainee subscription, in the United States and Canada, and the UpToDate app listing on the App Store describes Expert AI as available in select packages. Other clinicians reach UpToDate Expert AI through an employer's UpToDate Enterprise Edition, and Wolters Kluwer reports pilots at more than 230 sites in 36 countries. AskMed needs no institution, no US license and no NPI. AskMed is built for doctors in every specialty, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers, and AskMed answers in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. One AskMed account works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, so a question asked on a phone during a shift can be reread on a laptop later. ## You choose the sources AskMed lets you choose which sources an answer may use, and Wolters Kluwer's pages don't describe source controls for UpToDate Expert AI, whose answers always come from UpToDate content. AskMed's source filters turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or medical references on or off for a question, and pick study types, from systematic reviews and meta-analyses to clinical trials. A slider sets how many sources AskMed uses, from 3 to 12, with 8 by default. Research Mode goes further and reads up to 20 papers for one question before AskMed answers, which helps when the evidence sits in the literature rather than in a guideline: a gap in the guidelines, a patient who doesn't match the trial population, or a newer treatment with mixed results. You can also attach a PDF or an image, and AskMed cites your file for what the file itself says. Every claim still links to a source you can open and check. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, and Wolters Kluwer's pages don't describe exam question banks in UpToDate Expert AI. AskMed's question banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Each bank is written in the language of its exam, so a candidate for a non-English exam practices in the language of the real paper. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and a timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, then go back to the bank. For a medical student, a resident or an international medical graduate, AskMed keeps exam practice and cited clinical answers in one account on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. ## How to choose an AI tool for clinical questions Choosing an AI tool for clinical questions takes more than checking for citations, because most AI tools for medicine, UpToDate Expert AI and AskMed included, now show their sources. Five checks separate one tool from another. First, check where answers come from: one publisher's library gives one editorial voice, while a search of journals and guidelines shows the evidence itself. Second, check where drug facts come from: the prescribing label is the document the regulator approved, and drug references summarize the label. Third, check whether you can sign up yourself in the country where you work, or only through an employer. Fourth, check whether you can choose the sources and go deeper than one answer. Fifth, check whether the tool helps you study for a licensing exam in the same app. AskMed meets all five with a stated feature: journals, guidelines and drug labels, official labels, worldwide sign-up, source filters and Research Mode, and Exam Prep for 10 exams. - Where do answers come from? A tool that answers from one reference gives you that reference's view. A tool that searches journals and guidelines lets you see the trials and guidance behind the answer. - Where do its drug facts come from? The prescribing label is the document the regulator approved. Drug references summarize it. Ask which one the tool reads. - Can you sign up where you work? Some tools are sold to individuals in only a few countries and otherwise through hospitals. Check that you can buy it yourself if your employer doesn't offer it. - Can you steer the sources? Filters for source types and study types, and a mode that reads many papers, help when the guideline doesn't cover your patient. - Does it help you study? If you're preparing for a licensing exam, one app that answers clinical questions and drills exam questions saves switching between tools. ## Bottom line For healthcare professionals and students who want cited answers from the wider evidence, AskMed is the stronger choice over UpToDate Expert AI. UpToDate Expert AI answers only from UpToDate's own topics and Lexidrug drug topics, and suits clinicians whose hospital already runs UpToDate Enterprise Edition. AskMed answers from journals, guidelines and official drug labels such as FDA labels and DailyMed, links every claim to its source, and says so when no source supports an answer. AskMed's source filters and Research Mode, which reads up to 20 papers for one question, let you steer the evidence, and Exam Prep covers 10 licensing exams, from PLAB and USMLE to NEET-PG and ENARM. AskMed Pro costs $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year, less than the $219 and $699 yearly starting prices of the UpToDate plans that include Expert AI. AskMed works in any country, with no US license or NPI, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in seven languages. ## Frequently asked questions Q: How much does UpToDate Expert AI cost? On Wolters Kluwer's website, UpToDate Expert AI comes with UpToDate Pro Plus, from $699 a year, or the trainee subscription, from $219 a year, in the US and Canada. The UpToDate Expert AI app on the US App Store lists a $89.00 subscription without a billing period. AskMed Pro is $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year. Q: Does UpToDate Expert AI search PubMed or the open web? No. Wolters Kluwer says UpToDate Expert AI draws exclusively from UpToDate content, including Lexidrug drug topics, and links back to UpToDate topics. AskMed searches journals through PubMed and the Cochrane Library, guidelines such as NICE and WHO, and official drug labels. Q: Does my hospital's UpToDate include Expert AI? It depends on the subscription. Hospitals and health systems get UpToDate Expert AI through UpToDate Enterprise Edition, and Wolters Kluwer reported in August 2026 that about 2,500 US hospitals and health systems use it. Your library or IT team can tell you whether Expert AI is switched on for your account. Q: Can AskMed replace UpToDate Expert AI? AskMed covers a different need: it searches journals, guidelines and drug labels for the exact question you ask, with a citation after each claim. UpToDate is not among the sources AskMed searches. AskMed answers are written by AI, so open the cited source before you act on one. Q: Can I use AskMed outside the US? Yes. AskMed works worldwide and needs no NPI or US license, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed explains what a drug is used for, how it works, side effects, interactions and monitoring, but never states doses. Exact dosing comes from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | UpToDate Expert AI Answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels PubMed, Cochrane, NICE, WHO, FDA labels and more | ✓ | UpToDate content only Official drug labels as a source Drug facts from the prescribing label | ✓ | Lexidrug drug topics Personal plan in any country No US license or NPI needed | ✓ | Personal plans in the US and Canada Source filters Choose source types and study types | ✓ | Not stated Research Mode Reads up to 20 papers for one question | ✓ | Not stated Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated ## References - Wolters Kluwer's new UpToDate Expert AI, Wolters Kluwer press release, September 24, 2025 - Wolters Kluwer adds UpToDate Lexidrug drug information to UpToDate Expert AI, Business Wire, November 21, 2025 - Health system adoption of UpToDate Expert AI reaching 2,500 US hospitals and health systems, Wolters Kluwer, August 6, 2026 - UpToDate Expert AI, wolterskluwer.com (accessed Nov 5, 2026) - UpToDate for health professionals, with prices, wolterskluwer.com (accessed Nov 5, 2026) - UpToDate Pro Plus, wolterskluwer.com (accessed Nov 5, 2026) - UpToDate Expert AI, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 5, 2026) - UpToDate, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 5, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-doximity-gpt Title: AskMed vs Doximity GPT: Review and Alternative Compare · updated Nov 6, 2026 # AskMed vs Doximity GPT AskMed and Doximity GPT are both AI assistants that answer clinical questions with citations. Doximity GPT, also known as DoxGPT, is the clinical AI assistant inside Doximity, the network of US clinicians, and Doximity now calls it Ask. Doximity's Ask page says access is for verified US clinicians, and the Doximity app pairs Ask with Scribe for visit notes and Dialer for patient calls. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers in any country. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to the source behind it. AskMed runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account, in seven languages, and needs no US license or NPI. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of Doximity GPT on seven features, each checked on November 5, 2026 against Doximity's Ask page, the Doximity help center, the Doximity blog and the Doximity app's US App Store listing. First, AskMed works in every country, while Doximity's Ask page says access is for verified US clinicians and its help center says all members must be verified U.S. healthcare professionals. Second, AskMed carries no pharma advertising, and the Doximity app's App Store listing says the app contains advertising. Third, AskMed's source filters let you choose source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources per answer. Fourth, AskMed checks official drug registries outside the US, such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk. Fifth, AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams. Sixth, AskMed says so when it finds no source instead of answering from memory. Seventh, the AskMed app comes in seven languages, while the Doximity listing names English only. Each card below shows one row. ### Available outside the US Use it wherever you practise or study AskMed: Worldwide, no license number needed Doximity GPT: Verified US clinicians only ### No pharma advertising No sponsored answers AskMed: ✓ Doximity GPT: App Store: Doximity app "Contains Advertising" ### Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ Doximity GPT: Not stated ### Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names AskMed: ✓ Doximity GPT: Not stated ### Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Doximity GPT: Not stated ### Says so when no source is found No answers from memory AskMed: ✓ Doximity GPT: Not stated ### App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic AskMed: ✓ Doximity GPT: English (App Store listing) ## What is Doximity GPT? A short review Doximity GPT is the clinical AI assistant from Doximity, Inc., whose App Store listing calls Doximity the largest network of U.S. clinicians. Doximity has also called the assistant Doximity GPT and DoxGPT; a Doximity blog post of May 7, 2026 calls it "Ask, formerly known as DoxGPT" and introduces the Doximity Clinical AI Suite, which brings together Ask, Scribe and Dialer. Doximity's Ask page lists finding evidence, checking drug safety, drafting letters such as prior authorization appeals, clinical calculators, differential diagnosis, diagnostic workup and comparing treatments. The page says inline citations help clinicians inspect the sources behind an answer, that Ask is HIPAA compliant, that more than 12,000 physicians guide Ask through Doximity's PeerCheck program, and that Ask now shows a second opinion from UpToDate alongside its own answer. Doximity's blog adds a drug reference of more than 3,200 drug monographs and full-text PDF access for more than 2,000 journals. Doximity says Ask runs on the web, Mac, Windows, iOS and Android. For a review of the wider field, including OpenEvidence, ChatGPT for Clinicians and UpToDate Expert AI, see the best AI apps for doctors. ## How do AskMed and Doximity GPT answer a clinical question? AskMed and Doximity GPT both write answers with citations, but AskMed publishes the list of sources it searches and lets you set the evidence behind each answer. AskMed searches journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ECDC and ESC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels, plus official registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk for local brand names; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and prefers sources from the last 10 years. Source filters turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, pick study types and set 3 to 12 sources per answer. Doximity says Ask answers with inline citations and draws on peer-reviewed literature and its own drug reference; its pages don't state user-set source filters or what Ask does when it finds no evidence. How AskMed answers: a fixed list of medical sources, guidelines ranked first, and no answer from memory when no source is found. - A cited answer. Every claim in an AskMed answer links to its source's exact web address, and each source is labelled as a Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference, so you can see at a glance what kind of evidence sits behind a sentence. - Research Mode. AskMed reads up to 20 papers for one question, for a journal club, a gap in the guidelines or a patient who doesn't match the trial population. - Deep Dive. AskMed writes a full evidence report from 20+ sources, then a second automated pass corrects sentences that contradict their sources and adds missing safety facts such as boxed warnings and interactions. - No drug doses. AskMed covers what a drug is used for, how it works, monitoring, side effects and how dosing is adjusted, but never states amounts or schedules; those come from the current label. How AskMed answers lists every source and limit in full. ## Who can use Doximity GPT, and what is the alternative outside the US? AskMed is open to anyone who works or studies in medicine in any country, while Doximity GPT sits inside a network built for US clinicians. Doximity's Ask page says access is for verified US clinicians, and Doximity's help center states that all Doximity members must be registered and verified U.S. healthcare professionals. That leaves out a GP in Manchester, a nurse in Manila, a pharmacist in Lagos, a resident in Delhi and a researcher in Toronto. For them, AskMed is the Doximity GPT alternative that covers the same core job: a cited answer to a clinical question, on a phone or in a browser. AskMed needs no NPI and no license number. One AskMed account works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, and AskMed searches NICE, WHO, ECDC and ESC guidance alongside US sources such as the CDC and the USPSTF, so you can name your country in the question and get the guidance that applies where you practise. For other tools that work outside the US, see OpenEvidence alternatives for doctors outside the US and AskMed vs OpenEvidence. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams, and Doximity's Ask page and the Doximity app's App Store listing mention no question bank. AskMed's banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, and each bank is written in the language of its exam, such as French for EDN, Spanish for ENARM and Turkish for TUS. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and cites one to three published sources. A timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. The questions are written in advance and reviewed before they are served, never generated by AI while you study. When a question exposes a gap, you can ask AskMed in the same app, get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, and return to the bank. Students and international graduates keep exam practice and clinical answers in one account. The best AI apps for USMLE and the best AI apps for PLAB 1 compare AskMed with dedicated question banks. ## When should you use AskMed or Doximity GPT? AskMed is the better fit when you need a cited answer you can trace and control, and the only fit for anyone outside Doximity's US network. Use AskMed if you practise or study outside the United States, since Doximity's Ask page says access is for verified US clinicians. Use AskMed if you want to choose the evidence, with filters for source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources, or if you need a local brand name checked in a registry such as the EMA or medicines.org.uk. Use AskMed if you're preparing for one of 10 licensing exams, if you want an app with no pharma advertising, or if you'd rather work in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese or Arabic. Doximity's suite also covers work outside clinical reference, such as Scribe for visit notes, Dialer for patient calls and letter drafting; AskMed doesn't write notes or letters or place calls, and focuses on cited answers and exam practice. ## How to check an AI medical answer Checking an AI medical answer, whether it comes from AskMed, Doximity GPT or any other assistant, takes four steps, because any AI system can misread a source or leave something out. First, open the citation behind the sentence you plan to act on and confirm that the source says what the sentence says, for the same group of patients: a trial in adults doesn't answer a question about children. Second, look at the date and type of source: a current guideline outweighs an older review, and one small study is weaker than a meta-analysis. Third, check whose guidance it is, because NICE, US and European guidelines can disagree, so follow the one that applies where you practise. Fourth, take doses from the current prescribing information or your local formulary, never from an AI summary. AskMed speeds up these checks by labelling each source as a Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference, and by giving the year of each guideline recommendation it states. - Open the citation. Read the sentence in the source itself, not the summary of it. - Check the date and type. Prefer the newest guideline, then systematic reviews, then single studies. - Check whose guidance it is. Name your country in the question when local practice matters. - Get doses from the label. Use the current prescribing information or your local formulary. For what published studies found about general chatbots, see Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? ## Bottom line For most people who work or study in medicine, AskMed is the stronger choice over Doximity GPT. Both assistants answer clinical questions with citations, but Doximity GPT, now called Doximity Ask, is built for Doximity's network of verified US clinicians, and the Doximity app's App Store listing says the app contains advertising. AskMed works worldwide with no NPI or license number, for doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers alike, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account. AskMed lets you set source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources on every question, checks drug registries outside the US such as the EMA, says so when no source supports an answer, and never gives drug doses. AskMed adds question banks for 10 licensing exams, carries no pharma advertising and comes in seven languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. US clinicians who mainly want note-taking or patient calling will find those in Doximity's other tools. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is AskMed better than Doximity GPT? For most people in medicine, yes. AskMed works in every country with no NPI or license number, lets you set source filters on every question, checks drug registries outside the US, includes question banks for 10 licensing exams, carries no pharma advertising and comes in seven languages. Q: What is Doximity GPT called now? Doximity now calls its clinical AI assistant Ask. A Doximity blog post of May 7, 2026 describes "Ask, formerly known as DoxGPT" as part of the Doximity Clinical AI Suite, alongside Scribe and Dialer. Q: Doximity GPT vs ChatGPT: what is the difference? Doximity GPT is Doximity's own clinical assistant for verified US clinicians, with inline citations, a drug reference and letter drafting in a HIPAA-compliant workspace. ChatGPT is OpenAI's general-purpose assistant. For how a general chatbot compares with a cited medical reference, see AskMed vs ChatGPT. Q: Can I use Doximity GPT outside the US? Doximity's Ask page says access is for verified US clinicians, and Doximity's help center says all members must be registered and verified U.S. healthcare professionals. AskMed works in every country and needs no US license or NPI. Q: Does the Doximity app show ads? The Doximity app's US App Store listing says the app contains advertising. AskMed carries no pharma advertising or sponsorship. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Doximity GPT Available outside the US Use it wherever you practise or study | Worldwide, no license number needed | Verified US clinicians only No pharma advertising No sponsored answers | ✓ | App Store: Doximity app "Contains Advertising" Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names | ✓ | Not stated Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated Says so when no source is found No answers from memory | ✓ | Not stated App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic | ✓ | English (App Store listing) ## References - Doximity Ask page, doximity.com/gpt (accessed Nov 5, 2026) - Introducing the Doximity Clinical AI Suite, Doximity blog, May 7, 2026 - What's New with DoxGPT?, Doximity blog (accessed Nov 5, 2026) - Is Doximity HIPAA/HITECH Compliant?, Doximity help center (accessed Nov 5, 2026) - Doximity, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 5, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-meta-ai Title: AskMed vs Meta AI: Which to Use for Medical Questions Compare · updated 3 November 2026 # AskMed vs Meta AI AskMed and Meta AI both answer questions in a chat, but they are built for different jobs. Meta AI is Meta's personal AI assistant, built into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads, the Meta AI app and meta.ai, for everyday tasks from reminders and image creation to research reports. Since April 2026, Meta AI has run on Muse Spark, a model Meta says it trained for health questions with help from more than 1,000 physicians. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to the source behind it. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account and no NPI or US license needed. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of Meta AI on eight features for medical questions, each checked on November 3, 2026 against Meta AI's US App Store listing, Meta's help center, Meta's Muse Spark announcement and the Meta AIs Terms of Service. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while Meta AI is a general personal assistant. Second, AskMed searches a fixed list of journals, guidelines and drug labels before answering, while Meta's help center says Meta AI may use sources and links from the internet. Third, AskMed links a source after every claim. Fourth, AskMed says so when it finds no source. Fifth, AskMed's source filters set source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources. Sixth, AskMed reads FDA labels and official drug registries outside the US, such as the EMA. Seventh, AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams. Eighth, AskMed's terms describe a medical reference, while Meta's terms say not to use outputs for medical decisions. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ Meta AI: General assistant, not built for clinical sources ### Searches medical sources first Journals, guidelines and drug labels AskMed: ✓ Meta AI: May use sources from the internet ### A source after every claim Exact web address after each sentence AskMed: ✓ Meta AI: Sources listed under a response ### Says so when no source is found No answers from memory AskMed: ✓ Meta AI: Not stated ### Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ Meta AI: Not stated ### Drug labels and registries outside the US FDA, DailyMed, EMA and medicines.org.uk AskMed: ✓ Meta AI: Not stated ### Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Meta AI: Not stated ### Made for medical reference What each one's own terms say AskMed: Education and reference for health professionals and students Meta AI: Terms: don't use outputs for medical decisions ## What is Meta AI? Meta AI is the personal AI assistant made by Meta Platforms, and Meta AI sits inside apps that billions of people already use: WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads, plus the standalone Meta AI app, the meta.ai website and Meta's AI glasses. The Meta AI App Store listing calls Meta AI "your personal AI assistant" and lists everyday jobs: reminders and daily briefings, email and calendar connections, image creation and editing, shopping and local recommendations, analysis of photos and files, voice chat, and research reports built from searches across sources. Since April 8, 2026, Meta AI has run on Muse Spark, a model from Meta Superintelligence Labs. Meta says health is one of the top reasons people turn to AI, and that Meta collaborated with over 1,000 physicians to curate training data for more factual and comprehensive health answers. The Meta AI listing also notes that some Meta AI features are available only in select countries and languages and may roll out over time. ## How do AskMed and Meta AI answer a medical question differently? AskMed and Meta AI differ most in where a medical answer comes from. AskMed answers only after searching a fixed list of medical sources: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC and ECDC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and links every claim to the source's exact web address. Meta's help center says Meta AI "may use sources and links from the internet to inform its responses", and that you can see them by selecting Sources under a response; Meta doesn't publish a list of the sites Meta AI draws on. When AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase instead of answering from memory. Meta doesn't state what Meta AI does in that case. AskMed also lets you shape the evidence behind each answer. Source filters turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, choose study types from systematic reviews to clinical trials, and set 3 to 12 sources per answer. You can attach a PDF or an image, and AskMed cites your file for what the file itself says. Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question, and Deep Dive writes a full evidence report from 20+ sources. AskMed never gives drug doses; a drug answer covers uses, mechanism, options, monitoring, side effects and safety, and exact amounts come from the current label. How AskMed answers explains the sources, citations and limits in full. ## What do Meta's terms say about medical questions? Meta's own terms for its AI products steer users away from medical decisions. The Meta AIs Terms of Service, which cover Meta AI and Meta's other generative AI features, say users may not use the AIs in a way that would "solicit professional advice (including but not limited to medical, psychological, financial, or legal advice)". The same terms say that no AI response "should be interpreted as an offer or provision of professional care", that outputs may not reflect accurate, complete or current information, and that users should not use outputs to inform professional advice or decisions related to medicine, finance, law or pharmaceuticals. AskMed's terms describe a different product: an AI tool that answers medical questions for healthcare professionals and students, with answers citing the clinical guidelines, journal articles and drug labels they are based on. AskMed's terms say the answers are for education and reference and don't replace your own clinical judgment, which is why every claim links to a source you can open. ## When should you use AskMed or Meta AI? AskMed and Meta AI fit different jobs, so many people who work in medicine will keep both on their phone. Meta AI suits everyday tasks inside the apps you already have open: setting a reminder in WhatsApp, drafting a message, planning a trip, creating an image or getting a daily briefing. AskMed suits the questions where you need to know where the answer came from: a first-line treatment in the current NICE or ESC guideline, a boxed warning on a drug label, the evidence behind a screening interval, or a mechanism you need to explain on a ward round. For those questions AskMed shows a source after each claim, so a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, student or researcher can open the guideline, paper or label and confirm the wording. AskMed also covers study, with Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams in the same account. Meta's terms ask users not to seek medical advice from its AIs, so a clinical question belongs in a tool built for one. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, while Meta AI states no question bank for licensing exams. AskMed's question banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Each bank is written in the language of its exam, so a candidate for the French EDN or the Mexican ENARM practices in the language of the real paper. The questions are written in advance, not generated by AI while you study, and every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one. A timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, then go back to the bank. For a medical student, a resident or an international medical graduate, AskMed keeps exam practice and cited answers in one account. The best AI apps for USMLE guide compares AskMed with other study tools for Step 1 and Step 2 CK, and the PLAB 1 guide does the same for the UK exam. ## How to check an AI medical answer Checking an AI medical answer, from AskMed, Meta AI or any other assistant, comes down to tracing each claim you plan to act on back to a source you trust. Start with the citation: an answer that names its source lets you open the guideline, paper or drug label and read what it says, while an answer with no source can only be checked by searching yourself. Next, check the source type and date, since a current guideline outweighs a single small study and a recommendation from 2012 may have been replaced. Then check the population, because a trial in adults doesn't settle a question about children or pregnancy. For drugs, confirm doses, interactions and warnings in the current prescribing information, never in a chat reply. AskMed builds these checks in by linking each claim to its source's exact web address, labelling each source as a Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference, and giving the year of each guideline recommendation it states. - Open the citation behind the claim. Read the sentence in the source that supports the claim you'll act on, not only the source's title. - Check the kind of source and its year. A current guideline or systematic review carries more weight than one small study, and guidance can change from one edition to the next. - Check the patients. Make sure the source studied the same group: age, pregnancy, kidney function or setting can change the answer. - Take drug details from the label. Doses, interactions and boxed warnings belong to the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. What published studies found about general chatbots and medical questions is summed up in Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? ## Bottom line For medical questions, AskMed is the better choice over Meta AI for anyone who works or studies in medicine. Meta AI is a capable general assistant built into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, and Meta trained its Muse Spark model with input from physicians to give more detailed health answers. But Meta AI is a personal assistant for everyday life, Meta's help center says Meta AI may draw on sources from the internet, and Meta's own terms tell users not to use its outputs for decisions related to medicine or pharmaceuticals. AskMed is built for doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. AskMed searches a fixed list of journals, guidelines and drug labels before answering, links every claim to its source, says so when no source is found, lets you filter sources by type and study design, reads drug registries such as the EMA, and adds Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web in seven languages. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is Meta AI good for medical questions? Meta says its Muse Spark model was trained with input from more than 1,000 physicians to give more detailed health answers. Meta's AIs Terms of Service, though, say users may not use its AIs to solicit medical advice or use outputs to inform decisions related to medicine or pharmaceuticals. For clinical reference with a source after every claim, use a medical tool such as AskMed. Q: Does Meta AI cite its sources? Meta's help center says Meta AI may use sources and links from the internet, and you can see them by selecting Sources under a response. Meta doesn't publish a list of the sites it uses. AskMed searches a fixed list of journals, guidelines and drug labels and links each claim to its source's exact web address. Q: What does AskMed have that Meta AI doesn't? AskMed searches only medical sources, links a source after every claim, says so when it finds no source, lets you filter sources by type, study design and number, checks drug registries outside the US such as the EMA, and includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams. Q: Who is AskMed for? AskMed is built for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. AskMed works worldwide with no NPI or US license, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Meta AI Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | General assistant, not built for clinical sources Searches medical sources first Journals, guidelines and drug labels | ✓ | May use sources from the internet A source after every claim Exact web address after each sentence | ✓ | Sources listed under a response Says so when no source is found No answers from memory | ✓ | Not stated Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Drug labels and registries outside the US FDA, DailyMed, EMA and medicines.org.uk | ✓ | Not stated Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated Made for medical reference What each one's own terms say | Education and reference for health professionals and students | Terms: don't use outputs for medical decisions ## References - Meta AI, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Report a source or link used in a response by Meta AI, Meta Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Meta AIs Terms of Service, effective May 13, 2026 (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Introducing Muse Spark, Meta Newsroom, April 8, 2026, updated May 12, 2026 - Introducing Muse Spark, AI at Meta blog, April 8, 2026 - How AskMed answers, getaskmed.com, November 3, 2026 --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/uptodate-alternatives Title: UpToDate Alternatives for Doctors and Students | AskMed # UpToDate Alternatives for Doctors and Students Our pick first, then seven other options and what each one does best. Updated 3 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick among UpToDate alternatives because it answers the exact question you type and links every claim to its source. It works in any country, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Answers | Written for your question, with a citation after each claim Sources | Journals, guidelines and drug labels, plus StatPearls, the MSD Manuals and BMJ Best Practice Sources per answer | 8 by default, 3 to 12 with the slider No source found | Says so instead of answering from memory Research Mode | Analyzes up to 20 papers Doses | Never Access | Works worldwide, no US licence or NPI needed Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web Languages | English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic ## What is UpToDate? UpToDate is a clinical decision support resource from Wolters Kluwer, made of expert-written topic reviews that tell clinicians how to diagnose and manage a condition. Wolters Kluwer's 2024 fact sheet lists more than 12,800 topics across 25 specialties, more than 9,900 graded recommendations and more than 7,500 authors, editors and peer reviewers, with users in 191 countries and territories. UpToDate grades its recommendations with the GRADE system, which it began using in 2006, and words them as "we recommend" or "we suggest". Drug information comes from UpToDate Lexidrug, a separate drug reference with its own app; personal UpToDate subscriptions include selected Lexidrug content. UpToDate Expert AI, a generative AI feature that answers only from UpToDate content, comes with Pro Plus and trainee subscriptions in the US and Canada. UpToDate is sold to hospitals and universities, and as personal subscriptions, including a trainee subscription for residents and students. People look for alternatives when they want a different format, different sources or access outside an institution. ## The best UpToDate alternatives, ranked The best UpToDate alternatives are AskMed, DynaMed, BMJ Best Practice, OpenEvidence, Medscape, AMBOSS, StatPearls and ClinicalKey, and each one is best at something different. AskMed comes first because it answers a specific question with a citation after every claim, works in any country without a licence or NPI, and runs on phones, tablets and the web. DynaMed and BMJ Best Practice are the closest like-for-like swaps for UpToDate: expert-written topics, structured recommendations and mobile apps. OpenEvidence is an AI search tool for verified US clinicians. Medscape is strongest on drug lookups, interaction checks and medical news. AMBOSS and StatPearls pair a reference library with question banks, which suits students and anyone preparing for an exam. ClinicalKey, from Elsevier, opens full-text books and journals and adds an AI search. The list below gives the facts for each one, taken from each company's own site or app store listing. - DynaMed (EBSCO). A clinical reference built on systematic literature surveillance with daily updates and a seven-step evidence-based method. Recommendations are clearly defined and labelled with the level of evidence behind them. DynaMed partners with the American College of Physicians, lists Micromedex drug content among its features, tracks reading for CME and MOC credit, and has a mobile app. Dyna AI answers from DynaMed's curated content and links to the topics it used. Best at: an evidence-graded swap for UpToDate. - BMJ Best Practice (BMJ). Structured around the clinical workflow, with step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention, updated daily, and used by healthcare professionals in more than 100 countries. The app works offline with over 1,000 conditions, reading is logged automatically for CME/CPD to support appraisal and revalidation, and you can connect your preferred drug database. Best at: offline use and stepwise management. - OpenEvidence. AI medical search for healthcare professionals; its App Store listing says an NPI is required and that users must verify their status. OpenEvidence is an official AI partner of NEJM, the JAMA Network, Nature and Cochrane, has an AI collaboration with NCCN, and cites every claim. Best at: US clinicians who want AI answers drawn from licensed journal content. - Medscape (WebMD). A reference app for healthcare professionals with prescribing and safety information on 9,200+ drugs, herbals and supplements, a drug interaction checker, a pill identifier, 450+ calculators, procedure videos, medical news and a CME tracker. Best at: quick drug and interaction checks plus news. - AMBOSS. A medical library and question banks in one, for students and clinicians. The clinician app has smart search, differential diagnoses, management steps and a drug database, and works offline. AMBOSS is an ACCME-accredited CME provider, and its AI Mode is a study copilot that turns questions and uploaded material into explanations and question sessions. Best at: students moving from exam study to the wards. See how it compares for exams in our USMLE guide. - StatPearls. A publisher of peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed review articles hosted on the NCBI Bookshelf, with CME/CE activities and question banks for more than 540 board and subspecialty exams. Each question links to its article, and its nursing question banks were built with the American Nurses Association. Best at: board review across professions. - ClinicalKey (Elsevier). Clinical search across reference books, journals, clinical overviews, drug monographs, guidelines and procedure videos, for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and students, sold in 43 specialty packages and to institutions. ClinicalKey AI adds generative AI search over full-text content such as The Lancet, NEJM and Braunwald's, with linked citations. Best at: reading the full textbook chapter or paper. ## UpToDate alternatives compared UpToDate alternatives fall into three groups, and the table below sorts all eight by type, strength and access. Topic references (DynaMed and BMJ Best Practice) work like UpToDate: you open a topic written by experts and read the recommendations. AI answer tools (AskMed, OpenEvidence and ClinicalKey AI) answer the question you type and cite the sources they used, which is faster for a narrow question but asks you to open the citation before you act. Learning platforms (AMBOSS and StatPearls) add question banks and CME to a reference library. Medscape sits apart as a drug, calculator and news app. Access differs as much as content: OpenEvidence requires a US NPI, several tools are sold mainly to institutions, and AskMed works in any country without a licence. Where a maker's site does not say something, the table says "Not stated" rather than guessing. For how AskMed's citations work, read how AskMed answers. App | Type | Best at | Access AskMed | AI answers with citations | A cited answer to your exact question, on the phone | Worldwide, no licence or NPI DynaMed | Topic reference + Dyna AI | Evidence-graded topics with daily updates | Individual and institutional subscriptions BMJ Best Practice | Topic reference | Stepwise management, offline app, CME/CPD log | Personal or institutional subscription OpenEvidence | AI medical search | AI answers from NEJM, JAMA and NCCN content | Verified healthcare professionals, NPI required Medscape | Drug and news app | Drug lookups, interaction checks, calculators | Not stated AMBOSS | Library + question banks | Studying for exams and the wards in one app | Individual plans and schools StatPearls | Articles + board review | Question banks for 540+ board exams, CME/CE | Individual plans ClinicalKey | Full-text library + AI search | Reading the source book or journal in full | Individual specialty packages and institutions ## UpToDate vs DynaMed: what is the difference? UpToDate and DynaMed are both evidence-based clinical references with expert-written topics, graded recommendations, mobile apps and CME tracking, and both now offer an AI assistant that answers only from their own content. The differences are in method, drug content and partners. UpToDate, from Wolters Kluwer, grades its recommendations with GRADE, which it has used since 2006, and pairs its topics with UpToDate Lexidrug drug information. DynaMed, from EBSCO, describes a seven-step evidence-based method with systematic literature surveillance and daily updates, labels the level of evidence behind its recommendations, partners with the American College of Physicians and lists Micromedex drug content. UpToDate Expert AI and Dyna AI both answer from their publisher's topics and link back to them. For many clinicians the choice comes down to which one their hospital or university already subscribes to. If you want a cited answer to a specific question from guidelines, journals and drug labels, AskMed works alongside either one. ## How to choose an UpToDate alternative The right UpToDate alternative depends on what you use UpToDate for, so start with your most common task and pick the tool that is best at it. A clinician who needs a quick answer between patients wants speed and citations. A student wants a reference that also teaches through questions. A pharmacist wants drug and interaction checks. A doctor outside the US, or anyone without a hospital login, needs a tool they can sign up for directly. Try each tool with three questions you asked recently, and open the sources behind the answers: a good reference shows exactly where each statement comes from and how recent it is. The five needs below cover most of the reasons people look beyond UpToDate, with the tools that fit each one best. Keep in mind that guidelines differ between countries, so check that a tool covers the guidance you follow, such as NICE in the UK. - Speed. For one narrow question, an AI answer tool is faster than reading a full topic. AskMed answers in the same app on your phone, tablet or laptop. - Citations you can check. AskMed links every claim to its source and labels each one as a guideline, research, drug label or reference. OpenEvidence and ClinicalKey AI also cite their sources. - Mobile and offline. BMJ Best Practice and AMBOSS have apps that work offline. AskMed runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account. - Exam study. AMBOSS and StatPearls pair a library with question banks. AskMed also has exam question banks for USMLE, PLAB, the PLE and seven other exams, each with sources for every question. - Global access. OpenEvidence requires a US NPI. AskMed works worldwide and needs no licence or NPI, and it answers in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese or Arabic. ## Questions Q: Is UpToDate free for medical students and residents? Medical students and residents get UpToDate in one of two ways: through an institution that subscribes, or through a personal subscription. Many medical schools, universities and hospitals subscribe to UpToDate, so check your library or hospital intranet before you pay for anything yourself. For personal use, Wolters Kluwer sells an UpToDate trainee subscription to residents, fellows and medical, pharmacy, nursing and dental students. You must show proof of trainee status, such as a letter from your program director, the first and last pages of your contract, or an ID badge with an expiration date. In the US and Canada, the trainee subscription includes UpToDate Expert AI. Subscriptions bought at the trainee rate do not earn CME, CE or CPD credit. If you want cited answers on your phone without an institutional login, AskMed works in any country, needs no licence or NPI, and is built for students and qualified clinicians alike. Q: What is the best alternative to UpToDate? For a cited answer to a specific question, on any device and in any country, AskMed. For a topic reference that works like UpToDate, DynaMed or BMJ Best Practice. For exam study, AMBOSS or StatPearls. Q: Is DynaMed better than UpToDate? Neither is better for everyone. Both are evidence-based references with graded recommendations and AI assistants. UpToDate uses GRADE and Lexidrug drug information; DynaMed uses daily literature surveillance, levels of evidence and Micromedex drug content. Q: Can AskMed replace UpToDate? AskMed covers a different need: it answers the exact question you ask, with a citation to a guideline, journal or drug label after each claim. UpToDate is not among the sources AskMed searches. AskMed answers are written by AI, so open the cited source before you act on one. Q: Do I need a US licence or an NPI to use AskMed? No. AskMed works worldwide, and you don't need a medical licence or an NPI to sign up. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed explains what a drug is used for, how it works, side effects and monitoring, but never states doses. Exact dosing comes from the current prescribing information. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-copilot Title: AskMed vs Microsoft Copilot: Medical Questions Compare · updated 3 November 2026 # AskMed vs Microsoft Copilot AskMed and Microsoft Copilot can both answer a medical question with links to where the answer came from, but they are built for different jobs. Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's general AI assistant: copilot.microsoft.com describes Copilot as AI "built to help you get things done", and the Microsoft Copilot app on the US App Store, listed under Productivity, calls itself "the AI built for work", connected to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to its source. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account and no US license or NPI needed, and adds exam prep for 10 licensing exams. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of Microsoft Copilot on eight features for medical questions, each checked on November 3, 2026 against copilot.microsoft.com, the Microsoft Copilot App Store listing and Microsoft's support pages. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while Copilot is a general assistant whose health space is for people's own health. Second, AskMed searches only medical sources, while Copilot's web answers draw on Bing search. Third, AskMed reads official drug labels from the FDA, DailyMed and registries such as the EMA. Fourth, AskMed's source filters set source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources. Fifth, AskMed says so when no source is found. Sixth, AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams. Seventh, AskMed works worldwide, while Copilot Health is open only to US residents. Eighth, AskMed never uses your questions for advertising, while Copilot conversation history can personalize the ads Copilot shows. Each card below shows one row. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ Microsoft Copilot: General assistant, not built for clinical sources ### Searches medical sources only Journals, guidelines and drug labels AskMed: ✓ Microsoft Copilot: Bing web search ### Official drug labels, US and beyond FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk AskMed: ✓ Microsoft Copilot: Not stated ### Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ Microsoft Copilot: Not stated ### Says so when no source is found No answers from memory AskMed: ✓ Microsoft Copilot: Not stated ### Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Microsoft Copilot: Not stated ### Medical tool open worldwide No US residency or NPI needed AskMed: Worldwide Microsoft Copilot: Copilot Health: US residents only ### Questions never used for ads No pharma advertising or sponsorship AskMed: ✓ Microsoft Copilot: Chat history can personalize ads ## What is Microsoft Copilot? Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's general-purpose AI assistant for chat, writing, research and everyday tasks, on the web at copilot.microsoft.com and in apps for phones and computers. The Copilot website describes Copilot as AI "built to help you get things done" that helps you create, brainstorm, learn and solve problems. The Microsoft Copilot app on the US App Store is listed under Productivity and calls itself "the AI built for work": it connects to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, drafts emails and documents, summarizes files and PDFs, and lets you choose between AI models. Microsoft's support pages say an updated Copilot app became available on August 18, 2026. For answers from the web, Microsoft says Copilot Search builds on Bing and shows clickable citations, with a "Show all" option for the full list of references. Microsoft Copilot is a different product from Dragon Copilot, Microsoft's clinical documentation assistant for health systems. ## How do AskMed and Copilot answer a medical question differently? AskMed and Microsoft Copilot answer a medical question differently mainly in where the sources come from. Microsoft Copilot is a general assistant, and Microsoft says Copilot Search blends traditional and generative search, builds on Bing and shows clickable citations; Microsoft's Copilot pages state no fixed list of medical sources for everyday chat. AskMed searches only a fixed list of medical sources before AskMed writes a word: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC and ECDC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed doesn't search the open web, forums or social media. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and links each claim to its source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase. AskMed also lets you shape the evidence behind each answer. Source filters turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, pick study types from systematic reviews to clinical trials, and set 3 to 12 sources per answer. Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question, and you can attach a PDF or an image, which AskMed cites for what the file itself says. How AskMed answers explains the sources, citations and limits in full. ## Where do drug facts come from? AskMed answers drug questions from official drug labels, the prescribing information approved by the regulator, while Microsoft Copilot's pages state no drug label source. AskMed reads FDA labels and DailyMed, and for local brand names AskMed also checks official drug registries from many countries, such as the European Medicines Agency and the UK's medicines.org.uk, so a brand name sold in Europe or the UK leads to the right label. The prescribing label is the primary document for a medicine's indications, contraindications, boxed warnings, interactions and adverse reactions, and each drug claim in AskMed links to the label's exact web address. AskMed never gives drug doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer in AskMed still covers what the drug is used for, how the drug works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## What is Copilot Health, and who can use it? Copilot Health is a dedicated space inside Microsoft Copilot where people talk through their own health questions, such as what their symptoms might mean, what their lab results say or what kind of care to look for. Microsoft's support page, updated October 2026, says Copilot Health is available in preview to Microsoft 365 Personal, Family and Premium subscribers who are at least 18 and live in the US, and that Copilot Health is temporarily unavailable during the move to the unified Copilot app. For health questions, Copilot Health prioritizes credible health organizations, selected using principles published by the National Academy of Medicine, and Microsoft says information shared with Copilot Health isn't used to target ads. Microsoft describes Copilot Health as a way to understand your own health and prepare for conversations with your doctor, not to diagnose or treat. AskMed meets a different need: a professional reference for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers in any country, cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, while Microsoft Copilot's website and App Store listing state no question bank for medical licensing exams. AskMed's question banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Each bank is written in the language of its exam, so a candidate for a non-English exam practices in the language of the real paper. Questions come from a fixed bank, not generated by AI when you ask. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, and a timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, then go back to the bank. For a medical student, a resident or an international medical graduate, AskMed keeps exam practice and cited answers in one account. For the US exams, the best AI apps for USMLE guide compares AskMed with other study tools for Step 1 and Step 2 CK, and the PLAB 1 guide does the same for the UK exam. ## When should you use AskMed or Copilot? Use AskMed for medical questions and Microsoft Copilot for general work, because each tool is built for that job. AskMed fits any question where you need the source behind the answer: a guideline recommendation, a drug's contraindications or interactions, the evidence for a treatment, a mechanism you're revising, or an exam question you got wrong. AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels, links every claim, and keeps practice for 10 licensing exams in the same app. Microsoft Copilot fits the everyday work around medicine that isn't a clinical question: the Copilot App Store listing describes drafting emails, creating documents, presentations and spreadsheets, summarizing files, managing projects and organizing your day across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. Many clinicians and students use both, with one habit that keeps them apart: when a medical fact will shape a decision, a handover or an exam answer, ask AskMed, open the citation and confirm the source says what the sentence says. ## How do you check an AI medical answer? Checking an AI medical answer, from Microsoft Copilot, AskMed or any other tool, takes four steps, and each one takes about a minute. First, open the citation behind the sentence you plan to act on and confirm the source says what the sentence says, for the same group of patients: a trial in adults doesn't answer a question about children. Second, look at the type and date of the source, since a current guideline outweighs an older review and one small study is weaker than a meta-analysis. Third, check whose guidance it is, because NICE, US and European guidelines can disagree, and follow the one that applies where you practice. Fourth, take doses from the current prescribing label or your local formulary, never from a chatbot. AskMed makes the first step faster by linking every claim to its own source and labeling each source as a Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference, and AskMed gives the year of each guideline recommendation it states. For what studies have found about general chatbots and medical questions, including made-up references, read Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? For other medical AI tools side by side, see the best AI apps for doctors. ## Bottom line For medical questions, AskMed is the stronger choice over Microsoft Copilot for people who work or study in medicine. Microsoft Copilot is a general assistant for work, built around Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, and its web answers draw on Bing with clickable citations. AskMed is built for one job: answering medical questions for doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers from a fixed list of journals, guidelines and drug labels, with every claim linked to its source. AskMed reads FDA labels, DailyMed and non-US drug registries such as the EMA, lets you filter by source type, study type and number of sources, and says so when no source supports an answer. AskMed adds Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, works worldwide with no NPI, and never uses your questions for advertising. AskMed runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is Microsoft Copilot good for medical questions? Microsoft Copilot is a general AI assistant, and its web answers draw on Bing search with clickable citations; Microsoft's pages state no fixed list of medical sources for everyday chat. AskMed is built for medical questions: it searches only journals, guidelines and drug labels, links every claim to its source, and says so when no source is found. Q: What is the difference between Copilot Health and AskMed? Copilot Health is a space in Microsoft Copilot for people's own health questions, available in preview to US Microsoft 365 subscribers aged 18 or over, and temporarily unavailable during Microsoft's move to the unified Copilot app. AskMed is a medical reference for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers in any country. Q: Is Microsoft Copilot the same as Dragon Copilot? No. Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's general AI assistant for chat and everyday work. Dragon Copilot is a separate Microsoft product for clinical documentation in health systems. AskMed is neither: it answers medical questions with citations to journals, guidelines and drug labels. Q: Which is better for exam prep? AskMed. It includes Exam Prep for PLAB, USMLE, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, with explanations for every option and timed mocks. Microsoft Copilot's website and App Store listing state no question bank for medical licensing exams. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. Q: Can I use AskMed outside the US? Yes. AskMed works worldwide and needs no NPI or US license, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Microsoft Copilot Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | General assistant, not built for clinical sources Searches medical sources only Journals, guidelines and drug labels | ✓ | Bing web search Official drug labels, US and beyond FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk | ✓ | Not stated Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Says so when no source is found No answers from memory | ✓ | Not stated Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated Medical tool open worldwide No US residency or NPI needed | Worldwide | Copilot Health: US residents only Questions never used for ads No pharma advertising or sponsorship | ✓ | Chat history can personalize ads ## References - Microsoft Copilot website, copilot.microsoft.com (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Microsoft Copilot, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - About Copilot Health, Microsoft Support, updated October 2026 (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Microsoft Copilot privacy controls, Microsoft Support (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Bringing the best of AI search to Copilot, Microsoft Copilot blog, November 7, 2025 --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-le-chat Title: AskMed vs Le Chat (Mistral): Cited Medical Answers Compare · updated 3 November 2026 # AskMed vs Le Chat (Mistral) AskMed and Le Chat both answer questions in plain language, but they are built for different jobs. Le Chat is the AI assistant made by Mistral AI, which Mistral has renamed Vibe: Mistral describes Vibe as its "unified agent for professional productivity and coding tasks", and the App Store and Google Play list the app under Productivity as "Vibe by Mistral (ex-Le Chat)". AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to its source. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account, and adds source filters, drug registries outside the US and exam prep for 10 licensing exams. This page compares the two for medical questions. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of Le Chat on seven features for medical questions, each checked on November 3, 2026 against Mistral's product page, help center, documentation, Usage Policy, App Store listing and Google Play listing. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while Mistral describes Le Chat, now Vibe, as an agent for professional productivity and coding. Second, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources before answering, and Mistral says Vibe draws on your prompt, attached files, connected tools or the web. Third, AskMed links every claim to its source, which Mistral doesn't state for every Le Chat answer. Fourth, AskMed says so when it finds no medical source instead of answering from memory. Fifth, AskMed's source filters let you pick source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources. Sixth, AskMed reads FDA labels plus official drug registries such as the EMA. Seventh, AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams. Each card below shows one row. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ Le Chat: General work and coding assistant, not built for clinical sources ### Searches medical sources first Journals, guidelines and drug labels, not the open web AskMed: ✓ Le Chat: The web, your files and connected tools ### A citation after every claim Each sentence links to its source AskMed: ✓ Le Chat: Not stated ### Says so when no source is found No answers from memory AskMed: ✓ Le Chat: Not stated ### Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ Le Chat: Not stated ### Drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA and medicines.org.uk AskMed: ✓ Le Chat: Not stated ### Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Le Chat: Not stated ## What is Le Chat? Le Chat is the AI assistant made by Mistral AI, a French AI company, and Mistral has since renamed Le Chat to Vibe. Mistral's help center says "Le Chat is now Vibe, Mistral's unified agent for professional productivity and coding tasks", with three modes: Vibe Work, the productivity mode people used in Le Chat; Vibe Code, a coding mode for developers; and Vibe Chat, the turn-based conversation Le Chat was known for. The web address chat.mistral.ai still works, and accounts and conversations carried over. On the App Store and Google Play the app is now called "Vibe by Mistral (ex-Le Chat)" and sits in the Productivity category. The store listings describe catching up across email, chat and calendar, running deep research across the web, internal docs and connected tools, analysing spreadsheets and drafting reports. Mistral's pages don't present Le Chat as a medical tool, and none of them names a list of medical sources. Mistral's Usage Policy, under "Professional advice", says its products must not be used "to provide professional advice without proper qualification", and gives "offering medical diagnoses, treatment suggestions, or any form of health-related guidance" as an example. Mistral's help center also says Vibe "can occasionally respond with incorrect answers or facts" and recommends checking whether its responses are accurate. ## How do AskMed and Le Chat answer a medical question differently? AskMed and Le Chat differ most in where an answer comes from. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources before any answer is written: journals such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC and ECDC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels; and references such as StatPearls. AskMed doesn't search the open web, forums or social media. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and links each claim to its source's exact web address. Le Chat, now Vibe, gathers context "from your prompt, attached files, connected tools, or the web", in the words of Mistral's documentation, and its deep research compiles "sourced analysis" from the web, internal docs and connected tools. Mistral doesn't state a medical source list, a ranking of evidence or a citation after every claim. For a clinical question, that difference decides how much checking an answer needs. When AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed gives a fixed reply that says so and asks you to rephrase, instead of answering from memory. Source filters let you turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, choose study types from systematic reviews to clinical trials, and set 3 to 12 sources per answer. How AskMed answers explains the full source list and its limits. ## Where do drug facts come from? AskMed answers drug questions from official drug labels, the prescribing information a regulator approved, while Mistral's pages name no drug label source for Le Chat. AskMed reads FDA labels and DailyMed, and for brand names sold outside the US it also checks official drug registries, such as the European Medicines Agency and the UK's medicines.org.uk, so a local brand name leads to the right label. The label is the primary document for a medicine's indications, contraindications, boxed warnings, interactions and adverse reactions. Each drug claim in AskMed links to the label's exact web address, so a pharmacist checking an interaction or a nurse checking a side effect can open the label and confirm the wording. AskMed never gives drug doses, dose calculations or titration schedules. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring and side effects. Exact amounts come from the current label. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, while Mistral's pages state no question bank for Le Chat. AskMed's question banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Each bank is written in the language of its exam, so a candidate for a non-English exam practices in the language of the real paper. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and a timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, then go back to the bank. For a medical student, a resident or an international medical graduate, AskMed keeps exam practice and cited clinical answers in one account on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in any country. The best AI apps for USMLE guide compares AskMed with other study tools for Step 1 and Step 2 CK, and the PLAB 1 guide does the same for the UK exam. ## When should you use each? Use AskMed for medical questions and Le Chat for general work, because each tool is built for that job. AskMed is the pick when an answer will inform a clinical decision, a care plan, a drug check or an exam: a doctor confirming a guideline, a nurse checking a monitoring plan, a pharmacist reviewing an interaction, a student revising for finals or a researcher scoping a question. In each case AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels first and links every claim. Le Chat, now Vibe, is built for professional productivity and coding, and Mistral's pages name tasks such as catching up across email, chat and calendar, analysing spreadsheets, drafting reports and writing code in the terminal or VS Code. A clinician can use Le Chat to draft a rota email and use AskMed for the evidence behind the clinical content. Mistral's Usage Policy lists health-related guidance among the professional advice its products must not be used to provide without proper qualification. ## How to check an AI medical answer Checking an AI medical answer takes five steps, whichever tool wrote the answer, AskMed and Le Chat included. First, open the source behind the sentence you plan to act on and read what the source itself says; an answer with a citation after every claim lets you check one sentence against one page. Second, check the kind of source: a current guideline or a systematic review carries more weight than a news story or a blog. Third, check the year, because guidance changes and an older recommendation may have been replaced. Fourth, check drug facts against the official label, such as an FDA label or the EMA's product information, since drug websites summarize the label and can lag behind an update. Fifth, check local practice, because guidelines and drug approvals differ between countries. Mistral's help center itself says Vibe "can occasionally respond with incorrect answers or facts". AskMed makes these checks quicker by labelling each source as a Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference. - Open the source. Read the cited page for the sentence you will act on, not just the answer around it. - Weigh the source. Guidelines and systematic reviews come before single studies, and studies before news or blogs. - Check the year. Make sure the guideline is the current version, not one that has been replaced. - Check the label. Confirm drug facts in the official prescribing information for your country. - Apply local practice. Approvals, first-line choices and thresholds differ between countries and settings. For what studies found when general chatbots answer medical questions, see Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? ## Bottom line For medical questions, AskMed is the stronger choice over Le Chat. Le Chat, which Mistral has renamed Vibe, is a general assistant for professional productivity and coding, listed under Productivity on the App Store and Google Play, and Mistral's pages name no medical source list. AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, from doctors, residents and medical students to nurses, pharmacists and researchers. AskMed searches a fixed list of journals, guidelines and drug labels before answering, links every claim to its source, and says so when no source supports an answer instead of answering from memory. Source filters let you choose source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources. AskMed reads FDA labels and official registries such as the EMA for local brand names, never gives drug doses, and includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is Le Chat the same as Mistral Vibe? Yes. Mistral renamed Le Chat to Vibe, its agent for professional productivity and coding. The web address chat.mistral.ai still works, accounts and conversations carried over, and the store listings read "Vibe by Mistral (ex-Le Chat)". Q: Can I use Le Chat for medical questions? Le Chat is a general assistant, and Mistral's Usage Policy lists "offering medical diagnoses, treatment suggestions, or any form of health-related guidance" among the professional advice its products must not be used to provide without proper qualification. For answers cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, AskMed is built for medical questions. Q: Does AskMed search the open web? No. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and doesn't search the open web, forums or social media. If no usable source is found, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. Q: Which is better for exam prep? AskMed. It includes Exam Prep for PLAB, USMLE, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, with explanations for every option and timed mocks. Mistral's pages state no question bank for Le Chat. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. Q: Does AskMed work in French? Yes. AskMed works in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic, answers in the language of the question, and works worldwide with no US license or NPI, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Le Chat (Vibe) Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | General work and coding assistant, not built for clinical sources Searches medical sources first Journals, guidelines and drug labels, not the open web | ✓ | The web, your files and connected tools A citation after every claim Each sentence links to its source | ✓ | Not stated Says so when no source is found No answers from memory | ✓ | Not stated Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA and medicines.org.uk | ✓ | Not stated Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated ## References - Mistral Vibe (formerly Le Chat) product page, mistral.ai (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Le Chat is now Vibe, Mistral Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Can I trust the models' output?, Mistral Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Usage Policy, Mistral AI (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Vibe overview, Mistral documentation (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Vibe by Mistral (ex-Le Chat), Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Vibe by Mistral (ex-Le Chat), Google Play listing (accessed Nov 3, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-gemini Title: AskMed vs Google Gemini: Medical Questions Compare · updated 3 November 2026 # AskMed vs Google Gemini AskMed and Google Gemini both answer questions in plain language, but they are built for different jobs. Google Gemini is Google's general AI assistant, which Google's App Store listing calls "your personal, proactive and powerful AI assistant", and Gemini draws on Google Search and other Google apps to answer anything from email drafts to trivia. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to the source behind the claim. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account and no US license or NPI needed, and adds question banks for 10 medical licensing and postgraduate exams. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of Google Gemini on seven features for medical questions, checked on November 3, 2026 against the Gemini App Store listing, Google's overview of the Gemini app and the Gemini Apps Help Center. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while Gemini is a general personal assistant listed under Productivity. Second, AskMed searches only a fixed list of medical sources, while Gemini relies on Google Search and other Google apps. Third, AskMed links every claim to its source, while Google's help center says Gemini shows sources only sometimes. Fourth, AskMed says so when it finds no medical source, which Gemini's pages don't state. Fifth, AskMed's source filters set source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources. Sixth, AskMed reads drug labels and official registries outside the US, such as the EMA. Seventh, AskMed offers question banks for 10 medical licensing and postgraduate exams, while Gemini's practice tests cover the SAT, JEE Main and NEET UG. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ Gemini: General assistant, not a medical reference ### Searches only medical sources Journals, guidelines, drug labels, references AskMed: ✓ Gemini: Google Search and other Google apps ### A citation for every claim A link after each sentence or clause AskMed: ✓ Gemini: Sources shown sometimes ### Says so when no source is found No answers from memory AskMed: ✓ Gemini: Not stated ### Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ Gemini: Not stated ### Drug labels and registries outside the US FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk AskMed: ✓ Gemini: Not stated ### Medical licensing exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing and postgraduate exams Gemini: SAT, JEE Main and NEET UG practice tests ## What is Google Gemini? Google Gemini is Google's general AI assistant, available on the web and as apps for Android and iPhone. Google's App Store listing calls Gemini "your personal, proactive and powerful AI assistant" and lists the app under Productivity, and Google's overview of the Gemini app describes Gemini as "an interface to a multimodal LLM" that handles text, audio and images. To answer, Gemini relies on external sources such as Google Search, its extensions and files you upload, and Gemini's Deep Research uses Google Search by default, with Gmail and Drive as optional sources. Google's overview gives writing emails and brainstorming as examples of Gemini's uses, and names no medical source list. Google is open about the limits: the overview says Gemini's responses "might be inaccurate, especially when it's asked about complex or factual topics", and the Gemini Apps Help Center says not to rely on Gemini's responses "as medical, legal, financial or other professional advice". ## How do AskMed and Gemini answer a medical question differently? AskMed and Google Gemini start a medical answer from different places. AskMed first searches a fixed list of medical sources: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC and ECDC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and writes the answer only from what it found, with a link after every claim. If no usable source turns up, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. Gemini is a general language model that can draw on Google Search, its extensions and your files, and Google's help center says Gemini shows sources only sometimes: when no Sources button appears under a response, that response came with no links. Gemini's pages describe no source filters and no reply for when no source is found. AskMed also lets you shape the evidence. Source filters turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, pick study types from systematic reviews to clinical trials, and set 3 to 12 sources per answer. For local brand names, AskMed checks official drug registries outside the US, such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk, so a brand sold in Europe or the UK leads to the right label. Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question. AskMed never gives drug doses: a drug answer covers uses, mechanism, options, monitoring, side effects and safety, and exact amounts come from the current label. How AskMed answers explains the sources, citations and limits in full. ## Can Gemini help you prepare for medical licensing exams? Google Gemini's practice tests cover the SAT, JEE Main and NEET UG, according to the Gemini Apps Help Center, and none of those three is a medical licensing exam: NEET UG is India's entrance exam for medical school, not an exam a doctor sits later. AskMed includes Exam Prep with question banks for 10 medical licensing and postgraduate exams: PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Each AskMed bank is written in the language of its exam, so EDN questions are in French, ENARM in Spanish, TUS in Turkish and UKOMNAS in Indonesian. Every question explains every option, not only the right one, and links one to three published sources, such as a NICE guideline. A timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practise under exam conditions, and when a question exposes a gap, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get a cited answer. The best AI apps for USMLE guide compares AskMed with other study tools for Step 1 and Step 2 CK, and the PLAB 1 guide does the same for the UK exam. ## When should you use each? Google Gemini and AskMed suit different jobs, split by whether the question is medical. Gemini is a general assistant tied into Google's apps: Google's overview gives writing emails and brainstorming as examples, and Gemini's Deep Research can draw on Gmail and Drive as well as Google Search. That makes Gemini a fit for the everyday work around medicine, such as drafting an email, planning a revision timetable or tidying a non-clinical document. AskMed is the tool for the medical question itself: a management question before a ward round, a drug interaction a pharmacist needs to confirm, a guideline change a nurse wants to check, a topic a student is revising or a literature question a researcher is scoping. For those, AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels, cites every claim, says so when no source supports an answer and lets you filter the evidence. Google's own help center says not to rely on Gemini's responses as medical advice. ## How to check an AI medical answer Checking an AI medical answer, whether it comes from Google Gemini, AskMed or any other tool, takes five steps, because every AI answer is written by a language model and can contain errors. First, open the source behind the sentence you plan to act on and confirm the source says the same thing, for the same group of patients. Second, check what kind of source it is: a current guideline from NICE, WHO or a specialty society outweighs a news story or a general website. Third, check the date, since guidance changes and an older review may be out of date. Fourth, check whose guidance applies where you practise, because UK, US and European guidelines can disagree. Fifth, take doses from the current prescribing information, never from a chatbot. AskMed makes the first three steps faster: every claim links to its source, each source is labeled Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference, and guideline recommendations carry their year. - Open the source. Make sure the source says what the sentence says, for the same patients. A trial in adults doesn't answer a question about children. - Check the type of source. A guideline or a systematic review carries more weight than one small study, and a medical source more than a general website. - Check the date. A current guideline outweighs an older review. When guidance has changed, the answer should say what changed. - Check whose guidance it is. NICE, US and European guidelines can differ, so follow the one that applies where you work. - Get doses from the label. Use the current prescribing information or your local formulary for amounts and schedules. What studies found about a general chatbot's medical answers is covered in Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? ## Bottom line For medical questions, AskMed is the stronger choice than Google Gemini for doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers. Gemini is Google's general personal assistant: Gemini draws on Google Search and other Google apps, shows sources only sometimes, and Google's help center says not to rely on Gemini's responses as medical advice. AskMed is built for medicine. AskMed searches only a fixed list of medical sources, from PubMed and the Cochrane Library to NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, links every claim to its source, and says so when no source supports an answer. Source filters let you choose source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources, and AskMed checks drug registries outside the US, such as the EMA, for local brand names. AskMed adds question banks for 10 medical licensing and postgraduate exams, where Gemini's practice tests cover the SAT, JEE Main and NEET UG. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in seven languages. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is Google Gemini good for medical questions? Google Gemini is a general AI assistant, not a medical reference. Google's overview says Gemini's responses might be inaccurate, especially on complex or factual topics, and the Gemini Apps Help Center says not to rely on Gemini's responses as medical advice. AskMed is built for medical questions: it searches journals, guidelines and drug labels first and cites every claim. Q: Does Gemini cite its sources? Sometimes. Google's help center says Gemini sometimes shows sources within and below a response, and that a response without a Sources button came with no links. AskMed links every claim to its source and says so when it finds no medical source. Q: Can Gemini help me study for USMLE or PLAB? Gemini's practice tests cover the SAT, JEE Main and NEET UG. AskMed includes question banks for PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, with explanations for every option and timed mocks. Q: Where does AskMed get its answers? From a fixed list of medical sources: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM and The Lancet; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, WHO and CDC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels plus registries such as the EMA; and references such as StatPearls. AskMed doesn't search the open web, forums or social media. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. Q: Can I use AskMed outside the US? Yes. AskMed works worldwide and needs no NPI or US license, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Google Gemini Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | General assistant, not a medical reference Searches only medical sources Journals, guidelines, drug labels, references | ✓ | Google Search and other Google apps A citation for every claim A link after each sentence or clause | ✓ | Sources shown sometimes Says so when no source is found No answers from memory | ✓ | Not stated Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Drug labels and registries outside the US FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk | ✓ | Not stated Medical licensing exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing and postgraduate exams | SAT, JEE Main and NEET UG practice tests ## References - Google Gemini, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Google Gemini, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - An overview of the Gemini app, Google (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Learn about responses from Gemini Apps, Gemini Apps Help (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - View related sources from Gemini Apps, Gemini Apps Help (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Use Deep Research in Gemini Apps, Gemini Apps Help (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Create quizzes, flashcards, practice tests & more in Gemini Apps, Gemini Apps Help (accessed Nov 3, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-claude Title: AskMed vs Claude: Which Is Better for Medicine? Compare · updated Nov 3, 2026 # AskMed vs Claude Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, listed on the App Store as an "AI assistant for life and work" that helps you write, research, code and work through hard problems. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources (journals such as NEJM, The Lancet and The BMJ, guidelines from NICE, WHO and CDC, and FDA and DailyMed drug labels) and links every claim to the source behind it. If no usable source turns up, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. AskMed also adds source filters, drug registries from outside the US and exam prep for 10 licensing exams, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead For medical questions, AskMed comes out ahead of Claude on seven points, each checked on November 3, 2026 against Claude's App Store and Google Play listings, the Claude Help Center and Anthropic's healthcare pages. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while Claude's App Store subtitle calls it an "AI assistant for life and work". Second, AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels before every answer, while Claude's web search draws on the live web when it helps. Third, AskMed links every claim to its source; the Claude Help Center describes citations in responses that use web search. Fourth, AskMed shows a fixed reply when it finds no source. Fifth, AskMed has source filters for source type, study type and 3 to 12 sources. Sixth, AskMed reads drug labels and official drug registries outside the US. Seventh, AskMed includes exam prep for 10 licensing exams. Anthropic's pages don't state the last four. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ Claude: "AI assistant for life and work" ### Medical sources searched first Journals, guidelines and drug labels, every question AskMed: ✓ Claude: Searches the live web when it helps ### A citation after every claim Each sentence linked to its source AskMed: ✓ Claude: Citations when it searches the web ### Says so when no source is found No answer from memory AskMed: ✓ Claude: Not stated ### Source filters Source type, study type, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ Claude: Not stated ### Drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed and registries outside the US AskMed: ✓ Claude: Not stated ### Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Claude: Not stated ## What is Claude? Claude is a general AI assistant made by Anthropic PBC, available on the web, iPhone, iPad and Android, and listed in the Productivity category of the App Store with the subtitle "AI assistant for life and work". Claude's store listing says Claude helps you "write, research, code, and tackle complex problems and hard questions", from emails and reports to debugging code. Claude can search the web: the Claude Help Center says Claude uses a search tool to ground its responses "with content from the live web", and that every response using web search includes citations. In January 2026, Anthropic introduced Claude for Healthcare, a set of tools for "healthcare providers, payers, and health tech companies", with connectors to the CMS Coverage Database, ICD-10 and the NPI Registry, and a PubMed connector that Anthropic names for HIPAA-compliant organizations on Claude for Enterprise. In the US, paid subscribers can also connect their own lab results and health records. Anthropic's own help article on wrong answers says Claude can "occasionally produce responses that are incorrect or misleading", and that "Users should not rely on Claude as a singular source of truth and should carefully scrutinize any high-stakes advice given by Claude." ## How do AskMed and Claude answer a medical question differently? AskMed and Claude differ most in where a medical answer comes from. Claude answers from what its model learned in training and, when web search is on or Claude decides a search helps, from pages on the live web, with citations to the pages used; the Help Center describes no setting that limits the search to medical sources. AskMed searches before every answer, and only a fixed list of medical sources: PubMed and the Cochrane Library, journals such as NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ, guidelines from NICE, WHO, CDC, ESC, KDIGO and GINA, FDA and DailyMed drug labels, and references such as StatPearls and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and links each claim to the source's exact web address. If nothing usable turns up, AskMed shows a fixed reply asking you to rephrase rather than writing an answer from memory. You can also shape the evidence: AskMed's source filters turn journals, guidelines, drug labels and references on or off, pick study types from systematic reviews to clinical trials, and set from 3 to 12 sources per answer, 8 by default. For a question that needs the literature, Research Mode reads up to 20 papers. More on each step is in how AskMed answers. ## Where do drug facts come from? AskMed takes drug facts from official drug labels, the prescribing information a regulator approved, while Anthropic's pages don't state which drug sources Claude uses; Claude's web search draws on whatever pages it finds. The label is the primary document for a medicine's indications, contraindications, boxed warnings, interactions and adverse reactions. AskMed reads FDA labels and DailyMed, and for local brand names AskMed also checks official drug registries from outside the US, such as the EMA, the UK's medicines.org.uk, Japan's PMDA, Health Canada, Australia's TGA and India's CDSCO, so a brand sold in Europe, the UK or Asia leads to the right label. Each drug claim links to the label itself, so a pharmacist checking an interaction or a nurse checking a side effect can open the source and confirm the wording. AskMed never states medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules; a drug answer still covers uses, mechanism, options, monitoring, adjustment factors and safety, and exact amounts come from the current label. ## Does Claude have exam prep for medical licensing exams? Claude's App Store and Google Play listings and Anthropic's healthcare pages don't state any question banks for medical licensing exams, while AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 of them. AskMed's question banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, the Philippine PLE, France's EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, Mexico's ENARM, Turkey's TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Each bank is written in the language of its exam, every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and timed mock exams of up to 40 questions let you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, then go back to the bank. For a medical student, a resident or an international medical graduate, AskMed keeps exam practice and cited answers in one account. See the guides for USMLE, PLAB 1 and the PLE. ## When should you use AskMed or Claude? Use AskMed when the question is medical and the answer has to be checked: a guideline recommendation, a drug interaction, a contraindication, a diagnostic criterion, the evidence behind a treatment, or an exam question you got wrong. AskMed is built for that one job, for doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers, so every answer starts from a search of journals, guidelines and drug labels and every claim carries a link. Use Claude for the general work that Anthropic describes Claude being made for: drafting an email or a report, restructuring a document, writing or debugging code, or working through a problem outside medicine. Many clinicians and students will use both, one for general writing and one for medical reference. For any medical claim that will change a decision, start from a tool that shows you the source behind each sentence, and open that source before you act. AskMed works worldwide, with no US license or NPI needed, in seven languages. ## How do you check an AI medical answer? You can check an AI medical answer from AskMed, Claude or any other tool with the same five steps, and Anthropic's own Help Center tells Claude users to review cited sources because the original pages "may contain important context or details not included in Claude's synthesis". First, find the source behind the exact claim you plan to use; if there is none, treat the claim as unverified. Second, open the source and confirm it exists and says what the sentence says, for the same patients, since a trial in adults doesn't answer a question about children. Third, check the date, because guidance can change after a model was trained or after a page was written. Fourth, check whose guidance it is, since NICE, US and European guidelines can differ. Fifth, take drug doses from the current prescribing information or your local formulary, never from a chatbot. AskMed is built to make the first two steps quick, with a link after every claim. - Find the source behind the claim. One sentence, one link. An answer with no source for the claim you need is a starting point, not evidence. - Read what the source says. Make sure it supports the sentence for the same group of patients, not just the same topic. - Check the date. A current guideline outweighs an older review, and one small study is weaker than a meta-analysis. - Check whose guidance it is. Follow the guideline that applies where you practise. - Get doses from the label. Use the current prescribing information or your local formulary for amounts and schedules. The studies behind these checks, from licensing exam scores to invented references, are in is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? ## Bottom line For medical questions, AskMed is the stronger choice over Claude, because AskMed is built for that one job. Claude is a capable general AI assistant for life and work, with web search, citations when it searches, and healthcare connectors that Anthropic offers to providers, payers and health tech companies. AskMed is built for everyone in medicine (doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers) and searches a fixed list of journals, guidelines and drug labels before every answer, with a citation after every claim. AskMed says so when it finds no usable source instead of answering from memory, lets you filter by source type and study type and choose 3 to 12 sources, reads official drug registries from outside the US for local brand names, gives no drug doses, and includes exam prep for 10 licensing exams. AskMed runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account, in seven languages, with no US license or NPI needed. ## Frequently asked questions Q: What does AskMed have that Claude doesn't? For medical questions, AskMed searches a fixed list of journals, guidelines and drug labels before every answer, cites every claim, says so when it finds no source, and adds source filters, drug registries from outside the US and exam prep for 10 licensing exams. Anthropic's pages don't state those last four for Claude. Q: Does Claude cite sources for medical answers? When Claude searches the web, the Claude Help Center says every response includes citations to the pages used. The search covers the live web rather than a fixed list of medical sources. AskMed cites a medical source after every claim in every answer. Q: What is Claude for Healthcare? Claude for Healthcare is a set of tools Anthropic introduced in January 2026 for healthcare providers, payers and health tech companies, with connectors to the CMS Coverage Database, ICD-10, the NPI Registry and PubMed. Anthropic says healthcare customers access Claude through Claude for Enterprise and the Claude Platform. Q: Which is better for medical exam prep? AskMed. It includes Exam Prep for PLAB, USMLE, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, with an explanation for every option. Claude's listings don't state any medical exam question banks. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never states medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring and safety, with exact amounts left to the current prescribing information. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Claude Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | "AI assistant for life and work" Medical sources searched first Journals, guidelines and drug labels, every question | ✓ | Searches the live web when it helps A citation after every claim Each sentence linked to its source | ✓ | Citations when it searches the web Says so when no source is found No answer from memory | ✓ | Not stated Source filters Source type, study type, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed and registries outside the US | ✓ | Not stated Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated ## References - Claude by Anthropic, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Claude by Anthropic, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Enable and use web search, Claude Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Claude is providing incorrect or misleading responses. What's going on?, Claude Help Center, March 16, 2026 - Advancing Claude in healthcare and the life sciences, Anthropic, January 11, 2026 - Healthcare, claude.com solutions page (accessed Nov 3, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-chatgpt Title: AskMed vs ChatGPT: Cited Medical Answers Compared Compare · updated Nov 3, 2026 # AskMed vs ChatGPT AskMed and ChatGPT both answer medical questions in plain sentences, but they are built for different jobs. ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI assistant, listed on the App Store as "Your everyday AI assistant", for writing, planning, learning and almost any other task. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to the source behind the claim. If AskMed finds no usable source, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. AskMed runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account across all four and no US license or NPI needed. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of ChatGPT on seven features that matter for medical questions, each checked on November 3, 2026 against ChatGPT's US App Store page and OpenAI's own help center and policy pages. First, AskMed searches only a fixed list of medical sources, while ChatGPT searches the general web when it decides a search is needed. Second, AskMed links a citation after every claim; ChatGPT shows citations when a reply uses web search. Third, AskMed says so when it finds no usable source, a behavior OpenAI's pages don't state for ChatGPT. Fourth, AskMed has source filters for source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources. Fifth, AskMed reads official drug labels and drug registries from many countries. Sixth, AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams. Seventh, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while ChatGPT is a general assistant. Each card below shows one of the seven rows. ### Searches medical sources only Journals, guidelines and drug labels AskMed: ✓ ChatGPT: General web search ### A citation after every claim Each sentence linked to its source AskMed: ✓ ChatGPT: Citations when it searches the web ### Says so when no source is found No answer from memory AskMed: ✓ ChatGPT: Not stated ### Source filters Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ ChatGPT: Not stated ### Drug labels from many countries FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk AskMed: ✓ ChatGPT: Not stated ### Licensing exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams ChatGPT: Not stated ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ ChatGPT: General assistant, not built for clinical sources ## What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is OpenAI's general-purpose AI chatbot, used for writing, coding, planning, learning, images and voice conversations as well as health questions. The ChatGPT App Store page calls ChatGPT "Your everyday AI assistant" and lists it under Productivity, not Medical. ChatGPT answers from what its model learned in training and can also search the web: according to OpenAI's help center, ChatGPT rewrites a question into search queries, sends them to search providers and shows citations and a Sources list when a reply uses search. The same help article warns that search results and citations can be incomplete, outdated or incorrect, and asks users to open each source and check its date. OpenAI's usage policies, updated in October 2025, list tailored advice that requires a license, such as medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional among the uses OpenAI doesn't allow. ChatGPT also offers study mode, which explains topics step by step and can quiz you on request. OpenAI also launched ChatGPT for Clinicians on April 22, 2026, a separate workspace that OpenAI says is open to verified US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists. This page compares AskMed with the general ChatGPT app; for the clinician product, see OpenEvidence vs ChatGPT for Clinicians. ## How do they answer a medical question differently? AskMed and ChatGPT differ most in where an answer comes from before it is written. AskMed always searches first, and only a fixed list of medical sites: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, WHO, CDC, ESC, KDIGO and GINA; FDA and DailyMed drug labels; and references such as StatPearls and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and prefers sources from the last 10 years. The answer cites 8 sources by default, with a link after each claim. ChatGPT answers from its training data unless it chooses, or is asked, to search the web, and the web search is not limited to medical sources. A reply written from memory carries no source at all, so the reader cannot see where a claim came from or how strong the evidence behind it is. That difference decides how fast you can check an answer. Citations written from memory are a known risk for general chatbots. Walters and Wilder ( Scientific Reports, 2023) checked 636 citations in ChatGPT-written literature reviews and found 55% of the GPT-3.5 citations and 18% of the GPT-4 citations were fabricated. Newer models and web search have reduced the problem, but a reference still needs to be opened before it is trusted. AskMed is told never to invent web addresses, studies or statistics, and an answer that comes back citing no source is replaced by a fixed reply asking you to rephrase. The full detail is in how AskMed answers, and the studies on ChatGPT are summarized in is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? ### Drug questions For drug questions, AskMed reads the official prescribing label from the FDA and DailyMed, and for local brand names it also checks national drug registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk, so a local brand name can be matched to its official label. AskMed never gives doses, dose calculations or titration schedules; a drug answer covers indications, mechanism, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, interactions and side effects, and exact amounts come from the current label. ### Control over the evidence AskMed's source filters let you switch journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, choose study types from systematic reviews to clinical trials, and set the number of sources from 3 to 12. Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question. ## When to use each Use AskMed when the answer will inform clinical work, study or research and you need to see the source behind each sentence. A family doctor checking whether a guideline changed, a nurse looking up monitoring for a drug, a pharmacist reviewing an interaction, a medical student working through a USMLE vignette and a researcher scoping the evidence for a protocol all need the same thing: a direct answer built from journals, guidelines and drug labels, with every claim linked so it can be opened and confirmed in seconds. AskMed also states the year of each guideline recommendation it gives, says when sources disagree and which evidence is stronger, and answers in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. Use ChatGPT for the general work around medicine that doesn't need a clinical source: drafting an email, planning a rota, rewording a paragraph you wrote, or brainstorming an outline. Many clinicians keep both, with AskMed for medical questions and ChatGPT for everything else. ### For exam preparation AskMed's Exam Prep has written question banks for PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, each in the language of its exam. Every question explains every option, links 1 to 3 sources such as NICE guidance, and only reviewed questions are served; a timed mock gives 40 questions in 60 minutes. ChatGPT's study mode can quiz you on any topic, but OpenAI's pages don't describe licensing-exam question banks. See the best AI apps for USMLE for more exam tools. ## How to check an AI medical answer Checking an AI medical answer takes the same five steps whether it comes from ChatGPT, AskMed or another tool. First, find the source behind the claim you plan to act on; a claim with no source is unverified until you find it in a guideline, a drug label or a peer-reviewed paper. Second, open the source and confirm that it exists and says what the sentence says, for the same group of patients, since a trial in adults doesn't answer a question about children. Third, check the date, because a guideline updated after a model's training data may have changed the recommendation. Fourth, check whose guidance it is: NICE, US and European guidelines can differ, so follow the one that applies where you practise. Fifth, take every drug dose from the current prescribing information or your local formulary, never from a chatbot. AskMed is built to make the first three steps fast: a link after each claim, labeled by source type, with the guideline year stated. - Find the source. Look for the citation behind the exact sentence you'll use, not just a list of links at the end. - Open it. Make sure the page exists and says what the answer says, for the same patients. - Check the date. A current guideline outweighs an older review, and guidance changes after a model is trained. - Check whose guidance it is. Follow the guideline that applies in your country. - Get doses from the label. Use the current prescribing information or your formulary. ## Bottom line For medical questions, AskMed is the stronger choice over ChatGPT for doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers. ChatGPT is a capable general assistant, and OpenAI's own help center asks users to check its search citations because results can be incomplete, outdated or incorrect. AskMed is built so that checking is fast: it searches only a fixed list of journals, guidelines, drug labels and medical references before writing, links a citation after every claim, and says so when it finds no usable source instead of answering from memory. AskMed reads official drug labels and national drug registries from many countries, gives no drug doses, and lets you filter by source type and study type with 3 to 12 sources per answer. AskMed adds question banks for 10 licensing exams, from PLAB and USMLE to NEET-PG and ENARM, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account, in seven languages, with no US license or NPI needed. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is AskMed better than ChatGPT for medical questions? For clinical and study questions, yes. AskMed searches only journals, guidelines, drug labels and medical references before answering, links a citation after every claim, and says so when it finds no source. ChatGPT is a general assistant that searches the general web when needed. Q: Does ChatGPT cite sources for medical answers? Sometimes. OpenAI's help center says replies that use web search can include citations and a Sources list, and that those results can be incomplete, outdated or incorrect. A reply written from the model's training data carries no source. AskMed links a source after every claim in every answer. Q: What is the difference between ChatGPT and ChatGPT for Clinicians? ChatGPT is OpenAI's general app for everyone. ChatGPT for Clinicians, launched in April 2026, is a separate workspace that OpenAI says is open to verified US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists. See OpenEvidence vs ChatGPT for Clinicians. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, interactions and side effects. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. Q: Who is AskMed for? AskMed is built for everyone in medicine: doctors in every specialty, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. It works worldwide, needs no US license or NPI, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. It is not a symptom checker and doesn't diagnose patients. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | ChatGPT Searches medical sources only Journals, guidelines and drug labels | ✓ | General web search A citation after every claim Each sentence linked to its source | ✓ | Citations when it searches the web Says so when no source is found No answer from memory | ✓ | Not stated Source filters Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Drug labels from many countries FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk | ✓ | Not stated Licensing exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | General assistant, not built for clinical sources ## References - ChatGPT, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Searching the web with ChatGPT, OpenAI Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Usage policies, OpenAI, effective October 29, 2025 - Using study mode in ChatGPT, OpenAI Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Making ChatGPT better for clinicians, OpenAI, April 2026 - Walters WH, Wilder EI. Fabrication and errors in the bibliographic citations generated by ChatGPT. Scientific Reports, 2023 - How AskMed answers, getaskmed.com --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-grok Title: AskMed vs Grok: Which AI for Medical Questions? Compare · updated 3 November 2026 # AskMed vs Grok AskMed and Grok both answer questions in plain language on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, but they are built for different jobs. Grok is a general AI assistant, first released by xAI and now listed on the App Store and Google Play under SpaceXSI, for conversation, research, coding, writing, image and video generation, and real-time news from X. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to the source behind the claim. For a medical question, that is the difference that matters most. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of Grok on six features for medical questions, each checked on 3 November 2026 against Grok's App Store and Google Play listings, grok.com and the consumer terms at x.ai. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, from doctors and nurses to students, pharmacists and researchers, while Grok's listings describe a general assistant for "students, professionals, creators, researchers, and anyone". Second, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources before answering, while Grok's listings describe "direct access to X and the web". Third, AskMed reads official drug labels from the FDA and DailyMed plus registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk, and Grok's pages name no drug label source. Fourth, AskMed's source filters set source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources per answer. Fifth, AskMed says so when no medical source is found. Sixth, AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams. Grok's pages state none of the last three. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ Grok: General assistant, not built for clinical sources ### Searches a fixed list of medical sources Journals, guidelines and drug labels, before every answer AskMed: ✓ Grok: Searches X and the open web ### Official drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA and medicines.org.uk AskMed: ✓ Grok: Not stated ### Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ Grok: Not stated ### Says so when no source is found No medical answers from memory AskMed: ✓ Grok: Not stated ### Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Grok: Not stated ## What is Grok? Grok is a general-purpose AI assistant first released by xAI, and its App Store and Google Play listings now name the maker as SpaceXSI. The listings describe Grok as "designed to be maximally truthful, useful, and curious" and set out four main features: an AI assistant that answers questions, does deep research on the web and analyzes documents, photos and links; Grok Imagine for image and video generation; Voice Mode for spoken conversations; and real-time information from X, with "advanced searches on X" to see what people are saying. Grok runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web at grok.com, and the App Store lists Grok under Productivity. According to the listings, students use Grok to study, professionals use it for research and writing, creators make images and videos, and developers get coding help. Medicine is not named as a focus, and the listings name no medical source list, drug labels or clinical guidelines behind Grok's answers. ## How do AskMed and Grok answer a medical question differently? AskMed and Grok answer a medical question differently because AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources first and writes the answer only from what that search finds, while Grok is a general assistant that replies from its own model and can search X and the web. AskMed's list covers journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC and ECDC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed does not search forums or social media, ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and links every claim to its source's exact web address. Grok's listings describe deep research on the web and searches on X, a social network whose posts are not peer reviewed, and don't say which medical sources Grok prefers when it answers a clinical question. Each AskMed answer draws on 8 sources by default, and the source filters let you turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, pick study types from systematic reviews to clinical trials, and set anywhere from 3 to 12 sources. How AskMed answers lists every source and explains the citations in full. ## What happens when no source is found? When AskMed's search finds no usable medical source, AskMed doesn't answer from memory: instead of an AI-written answer, AskMed shows a fixed reply, written in advance, that says no medical sources were found and asks you to rephrase the question. The same fixed reply replaces any answer that comes back citing no source at all, so an uncited answer is never presented as if it were evidence. When the sources cover only part of a question, AskMed is told to say plainly that the evidence doesn't answer the rest, and to cite fewer sources rather than fill the gap with weak or off-topic ones. When sources disagree, the answer says so and says which evidence is stronger. Grok's App Store and Google Play listings and grok.com don't state what Grok does when no medical source supports an answer. For a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, a clear "no source found" is more useful than a fluent answer with nothing behind it. ## Where do drug facts come from? AskMed takes drug facts from official drug labels, the prescribing information a regulator approved, while Grok's listings and grok.com name no drug label source. AskMed reads FDA labels and DailyMed, and for local brand names AskMed also checks official drug registries from many countries, such as the European Medicines Agency and the UK's medicines.org.uk, so a brand name sold in Europe or the UK leads to the right label. The label is the primary document for a medicine's indications, contraindications, boxed warnings, interactions and adverse reactions, and each drug claim in AskMed links to the label's exact web address, so a pharmacist checking an interaction or a nurse checking a side effect can open the label and confirm the wording. AskMed never gives doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions. A drug answer still covers uses, mechanism, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring and side effects. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, while Grok's listings say students use Grok "to study and get clear explanations" but state no question bank for any licensing exam. AskMed's question banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Each bank is written in the language of its exam, so a candidate for a non-English exam practices in the language of the real paper. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and a timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, then go back to the bank. For a medical student, a resident or an international medical graduate, AskMed keeps exam practice and cited answers in one account. The best AI apps for USMLE guide compares study tools for Step 1 and Step 2 CK, and the PLAB 1 guide does the same for the UK exam. ## When should you use AskMed, and when Grok? Use AskMed for medical questions and Grok for general tasks outside medicine. AskMed is a medical reference: use AskMed when the answer will inform patient care, a ward round, a pharmacy check, a literature review or exam revision, because AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels first and puts a citation you can open after every claim. Grok is a general assistant: its App Store listing names image and video generation with Grok Imagine, voice conversations, coding help, writing, and real-time news and conversations on X. Those tasks sit outside what AskMed does, since AskMed doesn't generate images, write code or follow the news. A clinician or student can keep a general assistant for everyday work and use a medical tool for clinical questions. When a medical question comes up in a general chat, ask it again in AskMed, where the answer comes from medical sources only, each claim carries a citation, and AskMed says so when no source supports an answer. ## How to check an AI medical answer Checking an AI medical answer takes four steps, whichever tool wrote the answer, and the consumer terms for Grok at x.ai themselves say Grok's output may not always be accurate, is not professional advice and should be checked with your own research. First, open the source behind the sentence you will act on and confirm the source says the same thing for the same patient group, because a trial in adults doesn't answer a question about children. Second, look at the type and date of the source: a current guideline outweighs an older review, one small study is weaker than a meta-analysis, and a social media post is not evidence. Third, check whose guidance it is, since NICE, US and European guidelines can disagree. Fourth, take doses from the current label or your local formulary, never from a chat answer. AskMed makes the first step quick: every claim carries its own citation, and each source is labelled Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference. - Open the citation behind the claim you'll act on. Make sure the source says what the sentence says, for the same group of patients. - Look at the type and date of the source. A current guideline outweighs an older review, and a post on a social network is not a source at all. - Check whose guidance it is. NICE, US and European guidelines can disagree, so follow the one that applies where you practise. - Get doses from the label. Use the current prescribing information or your local formulary for amounts and schedules. For what studies have found about general chatbots on medical questions, see Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions?, and for other tools built for clinicians, the best AI apps for doctors. ## Bottom line For medical questions, AskMed is the stronger choice over Grok. Grok is a capable general assistant, and its own listings describe it as one: conversation, deep research on the web, coding, writing, image and video generation, voice chat and real-time information from X, for "anyone looking for a powerful AI chat experience". AskMed is built for one job, answering medical questions for everyone in medicine, from doctors, residents and medical students to nurses, pharmacists and researchers. AskMed searches a fixed list of journals, guidelines and drug labels before answering, cites every claim to its source's exact web address, and says so when no source is found. AskMed reads official drug labels and registries outside the US, lets you filter sources by type, study type and number, and includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams. AskMed gives no drug doses, carries no pharma advertising, and works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in seven languages, with no US license or NPI needed. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is Grok good for medical questions? Grok is a general AI assistant, and its App Store and Google Play listings don't describe a medical source list, drug label sources or a medical focus. The consumer terms at x.ai say Grok's output may not always be accurate and is not professional advice. AskMed is built for medical questions: AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels first and cites every claim. Q: What does AskMed have that Grok doesn't state? A fixed list of medical sources searched before every answer, official drug labels and registries such as the EMA, source filters with 3 to 12 sources per answer, a fixed reply when no source is found, and Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams. Q: Which is better for exam prep? AskMed. It includes Exam Prep for PLAB, USMLE, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, with explanations for every option and timed mocks. Grok's listings state no question bank for licensing exams. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information. Q: Can I use AskMed outside the US? Yes. AskMed works worldwide and needs no NPI or US license, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Grok Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | General assistant, not built for clinical sources Searches a fixed list of medical sources Journals, guidelines and drug labels, before every answer | ✓ | Searches X and the open web Official drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA and medicines.org.uk | ✓ | Not stated Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Says so when no source is found No medical answers from memory | ✓ | Not stated Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated ## References - Grok, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Grok, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Grok on the web, grok.com (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Terms of Service, Consumer, x.ai (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Consumer FAQs, x.ai (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - How AskMed answers, getaskmed.com (updated Nov 3, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-perplexity Title: AskMed vs Perplexity: Medical Sources Compared Compare · updated 3 November 2026 # AskMed vs Perplexity AskMed and Perplexity both answer questions with cited sources, but they are built for different jobs. Perplexity describes itself as an AI-powered search engine that pulls content from the web in real time to answer questions on any topic, with an Academic focus for scholarly material and, since May 2026, premium health sources such as NEJM, BMJ Journals and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches only a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to the source behind it. When no source turns up, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. AskMed adds medical source filters and exam prep for 10 licensing exams, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of Perplexity on seven features for medical questions, each checked on November 3, 2026 against Perplexity's Help Center, its premium health sources announcement and its US App Store listing. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while Perplexity is a search engine for every topic. Second, AskMed searches only a fixed list of medical sources, and Perplexity searches the web. Third, AskMed's source filters are medical: journals, guidelines, drug labels or references, study types, and 3 to 12 sources per answer; Perplexity's focus options are Web, Academic, Finance and Files. Fourth, AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Fifth, AskMed checks official drug registries outside the US, such as the EMA, for local brand names. Sixth, AskMed says so when it finds no medical source. Seventh, AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams, where Perplexity's Learn Mode offers general quizzes. Each card below shows one row. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ Perplexity: General search for every topic ### Searches only medical sources Journals, guidelines, drug labels, references AskMed: A fixed list Perplexity: The web, in real time ### Medical source filters Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ Perplexity: Web, Academic, Finance or Files focus ### Guidelines ranked first Then systematic reviews and meta-analyses AskMed: ✓ Perplexity: Not stated ### Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names AskMed: ✓ Perplexity: Not stated ### Says so when no source is found No answers from memory AskMed: ✓ Perplexity: Not stated ### Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Perplexity: General quizzes in Learn Mode ## What is Perplexity? Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine made by Perplexity AI that answers questions in conversational language and cites its sources. Perplexity's Help Center says content is pulled from the web in real time as you ask, and that Perplexity serves people doing in-depth research for work, people looking for quick answers to everyday questions and people exploring new subjects. Pro Search runs several searches per question and lets you narrow the focus to Web, Academic, Finance or Files. Research mode runs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources and writes a report, and Learn Mode makes flashcards and quizzes from what you are studying. Some cited domains carry a Government, Academic or Trusted label from Perplexity's own source review. In May 2026 Perplexity added premium health sources, starting with NEJM, BMJ Journals and BMJ Best Practice, and Perplexity Health connects US users' medical records and wearables for personal health questions. Perplexity covers every topic; AskMed covers medicine only. ## How do AskMed and Perplexity answer a medical question differently? AskMed and Perplexity differ most in where the search goes before an answer is written. Perplexity searches the web by default, and its premium health sources announcement says that in Perplexity Computer those sources are triggered automatically for relevant questions, with no manual selection. AskMed searches only a fixed list of medical sources: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC and ECDC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels; and references such as StatPearls, the MSD Manual and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed doesn't search the open web, forums or social media. From what it finds, AskMed ranks guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and prefers sources from the last 10 years. Every claim links to its source's exact web address, and when sources disagree, the answer says which evidence is stronger. AskMed writes the search query itself in precise medical terms. When AskMed's search finds no usable medical source, you get a fixed reply that says so and asks you to rephrase, so an uncited answer is never shown as evidence. How AskMed answers lists every source and rule. ## Can you choose medical sources in Perplexity? Perplexity lets you choose a focus, not medical source types. Perplexity's Pro Search help page lists the focus options as Web, Academic, Finance and Files, and the Academic focus narrows a search to scholarly material across every field. AskMed's source filters are built for medicine. In AskMed you can turn four source types on or off (journals, guidelines, drug labels and references), choose which kinds of studies to use (systematic reviews and meta-analyses, review articles, clinical trials or other studies), and set the number of sources per answer anywhere from 3 to 12, with 8 as the default. A nurse who wants only guideline answers can switch everything else off; a researcher scoping a question can ask for systematic reviews alone; a student who wants a broad overview can raise the count to 12. If an answer cites more sources than you asked for, AskMed drops the least-cited ones. The filters apply to every everyday question, not only to long research reports. ## Drug questions and local brand names AskMed answers drug questions from official drug labels, the prescribing information a regulator approved, and Perplexity's pages state no equivalent drug label search. AskMed reads FDA labels and DailyMed, and for local brand names AskMed also checks official drug registries from many countries, such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk, so a brand sold in Europe, the UK or elsewhere leads to the right label. Perplexity's premium health sources announcement names Micromedex as a source for medication information that was still to come at launch in May 2026. Each drug claim in AskMed links to the label's web address, so a pharmacist checking an interaction or a nurse checking a side effect can open the label and confirm the wording. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, while Perplexity's Learn Mode makes general flashcards and quizzes and its Help Center names no licensing exam question bank. AskMed's question banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. The questions are written in advance by the AskMed team, not generated by AI when you ask, and each bank is written in the language of its exam, so a candidate for a non-English exam practices in the language of the real paper. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and a timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, then go back to the bank, on iPhone, iPad, Android or the web. The best AI apps for USMLE and best AI apps for PLAB 1 guides compare AskMed with other study tools for those exams. ## When to use each Use Perplexity for questions outside medicine and AskMed for medical questions. Perplexity is a general search engine: its Help Center describes quick answers to everyday questions, research for professional work and exploring new subjects, with focus options for finance and your own files, so Perplexity suits a news story, a market question or a topic far from the clinic. AskMed is the tool to open when the question is clinical or academic medicine: a guideline recommendation, a drug interaction, the evidence behind a treatment, a mechanism to revise before an exam. In AskMed, every answer comes from a fixed list of medical sources, every claim links to its source, guidelines rank first, filters let you choose the type of evidence, and a question with no medical source gets a plain reply rather than a guess. For students and international medical graduates, AskMed also keeps exam question banks and cited answers in one account, so a gap found in a practice question can be checked in seconds. ## How to check an AI medical answer Checking an AI medical answer means checking the source behind the sentence you plan to act on, whichever tool wrote it, AskMed and Perplexity included. AI answers are written by a language model from what a search found, and a model can misread a source, cite a page that doesn't say what the sentence says, or miss a newer guideline. Four checks cover most of the risk. First, open the citation and confirm that the source says the same thing for the same group of patients, since a trial in adults doesn't answer a question about children. Second, look at the date and type of source: a current guideline outweighs an older review, and one small study is weaker than a meta-analysis. Third, check whose guidance it is, because NICE, US and European guidelines can disagree. Fourth, take doses from the current label or your local formulary. In AskMed, the source list labels each source as a Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference. - Open the citation behind the claim. Make sure the source says what the sentence says, for the same patients and setting. - Look at the date and the type of source. A current guideline outweighs an older review, and a meta-analysis outweighs one small study. - Check whose guidance it is. Follow the guideline that applies where you practise. - Get doses from the label. Use the current prescribing information or your local formulary for amounts and schedules. The ChatGPT accuracy guide sums up what studies found when general chatbots answer medical questions. ## Bottom line For medical questions, AskMed is the stronger choice over Perplexity. Perplexity is an AI search engine for every topic: it searches the web in real time, offers Web, Academic, Finance and Files focus, and has added premium health sources such as NEJM and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed is built only for medicine and for everyone who works or studies in it: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. AskMed searches only a fixed list of medical journals, guidelines, drug labels and references, ranks guidelines first, and links every claim to its source. AskMed's filters let you pick source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources on every question, AskMed checks drug registries outside the US such as the EMA for local brand names, and AskMed says so plainly when no medical source supports an answer. AskMed adds question banks for 10 licensing exams, works worldwide with no NPI or US license, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web in seven languages. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is Perplexity good for medical questions? Perplexity cites its sources and has an Academic focus and premium health sources such as NEJM and BMJ Best Practice, but Perplexity is a general search engine that searches the web. AskMed searches only a fixed list of medical sources, ranks guidelines first, and says so when it finds no source. Q: Does Perplexity have an academic or medical mode? Perplexity's Pro Search offers an Academic focus for scholarly material, and since May 2026 Perplexity draws on premium health sources, starting with NEJM, BMJ Journals and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed's filters are medical: journals, guidelines, drug labels or references, study types, and 3 to 12 sources per answer. Q: Which is better for exam prep? AskMed. It includes Exam Prep for PLAB, USMLE, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, with an explanation for every option and timed mocks. Perplexity's Learn Mode makes general flashcards and quizzes. Q: Who is AskMed for? AskMed is built for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers, in any country, with no NPI or US license needed, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. AskMed is not a symptom checker and doesn't diagnose patients. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Perplexity Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | General search for every topic Searches only medical sources Journals, guidelines, drug labels, references | A fixed list | The web, in real time Medical source filters Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Web, Academic, Finance or Files focus Guidelines ranked first Then systematic reviews and meta-analyses | ✓ | Not stated Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names | ✓ | Not stated Says so when no source is found No answers from memory | ✓ | Not stated Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | General quizzes in Learn Mode ## References - What is Perplexity?, Perplexity Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - What is Pro Search?, Perplexity Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - What is Research mode?, Perplexity Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - What is Learn Mode?, Perplexity Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Understanding source labels, Perplexity Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - What is Perplexity Health?, Perplexity Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Announcing premium health sources, Perplexity, May 5, 2026 (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Perplexity: AI Agent & Search, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - How AskMed answers, getaskmed.com, November 3, 2026 --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-openevidence Title: AskMed vs OpenEvidence: AI Medical Search Compared Compare · updated 3 November 2026 # AskMed vs OpenEvidence AskMed and OpenEvidence are both AI apps that answer clinical questions with citations to published evidence. The OpenEvidence App Store listing describes a clinical decision support tool and medical search engine that is available only to healthcare professionals, with an NPI marked as required. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to its source. This page puts the two apps head to head: where each works, who can sign up, how each answers, which sources you control, exam prep and advertising. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account and no NPI or license number. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of OpenEvidence on eight features, each checked on November 3, 2026 against OpenEvidence's Terms of Use, its US App Store listing and its Google Play listing. First, AskMed works worldwide, while OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is not available in the United Kingdom, the European Union or the European Economic Area. Second, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine and needs no license number, while OpenEvidence's registration asks for an NPI or another professional licensing number. Third, AskMed carries no pharma advertising, and OpenEvidence's App Store listing says the app contains advertising. Fourth, AskMed's source filters let you choose source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources. Fifth, AskMed checks official drug registries outside the US, such as the EMA. Sixth, AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams. Seventh, AskMed says so when it finds no source. Eighth, the AskMed app comes in seven languages. Each card below shows one row. ### Available in the UK, EU and EEA Use it wherever you practise AskMed: Worldwide OpenEvidence: Not available, per its Terms of Use ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: No license number needed OpenEvidence: Healthcare professionals with an NPI or other license number ### No pharma advertising No sponsored answers AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: App Store: "Contains Advertising" ### Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: Not stated ### Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: Not stated ### Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams OpenEvidence: Not stated ### Says so when no source is found No answers from memory AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: Not stated ### App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: English (App Store listing) ## What is OpenEvidence? OpenEvidence is an AI medical search app from OpenEvidence Inc. that answers clinical questions for healthcare professionals, most of them in the United States. The OpenEvidence App Store listing, subtitled "Evidence-Based Clinical AI", describes a clinical decision support tool and medical search engine whose answers are sourced, cited and grounded in the peer-reviewed literature. The listing names content partners including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley, and says answers draw on more than 35 million peer-reviewed papers plus FDA and CDC sources. OpenEvidence also lists EvidenceGrade, a rating of evidence strength, continuing medical education credit, Visits for ambient documentation and a Dialer for patient calls. OpenEvidence runs on the web, iPhone, iPad and Android. Its App Store listing says OpenEvidence is available only to healthcare professionals, marks an NPI as required and states that the app contains advertising. ## How do AskMed and OpenEvidence answer a medical question differently? AskMed and OpenEvidence both write cited answers, but AskMed lets you set the evidence behind each answer and states what happens when none is found. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC, ECDC and ESC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels, plus official registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk for local brand names; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and prefers sources from the last 10 years. Source filters turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, pick study types and set 3 to 12 sources per answer. OpenEvidence says its answers draw on peer-reviewed literature from licensed partners and FDA and CDC sources; its listings don't state user-set filters or what happens when no evidence is found. - A cited answer. Every claim in an AskMed answer links to its source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase, instead of answering from memory. - Research Mode. AskMed reads up to 20 papers for one question, for a journal club, a gap in the guidelines or a patient who doesn't match the trial population. - Deep Dive. AskMed writes a full evidence report from 20+ sources, then a second automated pass corrects sentences that contradict their sources and adds missing safety facts such as boxed warnings and interactions. - No drug doses. AskMed covers what a drug is used for, how it works, monitoring, side effects and how dosing is adjusted, but never states amounts or schedules; those come from the current label. How AskMed answers lists every source and limit in full. ## Who can sign up for AskMed and OpenEvidence? AskMed lets anyone who works or studies in medicine sign up in any country, while OpenEvidence limits both who can register and where. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use, last updated on September 17, 2026, say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, and that access from those regions is prohibited. Registration asks for your name, email address, profession, specialty and a National Provider Identifier (NPI), "or, as applicable, other professional licensing number". OpenEvidence's App Store and Google Play listings both say users must verify their healthcare professional status before using OpenEvidence. AskMed needs no NPI and no license number, so a GP in Manchester, a nurse in Madrid, a pharmacist in Lagos, a student in Delhi and a researcher in Toronto use the same app. One AskMed account works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, and AskMed searches NICE, WHO, ECDC and ESC guidance alongside US sources such as the CDC and the USPSTF. For the country-by-country picture and other tools that work outside the US, see OpenEvidence alternatives for doctors outside the US. For a three-way look that adds OpenAI's clinician product, see OpenEvidence vs ChatGPT for Clinicians vs AskMed. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes question banks for 10 licensing exams, and OpenEvidence's App Store and Google Play listings mention no question bank. AskMed's banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, and each bank is written in the language of its exam, such as French for EDN, Spanish for ENARM and Turkish for TUS. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and cites one to three published sources. A timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. The questions are written in advance and reviewed before they are served, never generated by AI while you study. When a question exposes a gap, you can ask AskMed in the same app, get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, and return to the bank. Students and international graduates keep exam practice and clinical answers in one account. The best AI apps for USMLE and the best AI apps for PLAB 1 compare AskMed with dedicated question banks. ## When should you use AskMed or OpenEvidence? AskMed is the better fit for most people in medicine who need a cited answer to a clinical question, and the only fit for anyone OpenEvidence doesn't serve. Use AskMed if you practise or study in the UK, the EU or the EEA, where OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is not available. Use AskMed if you have no NPI or other professional license number to register with. Use AskMed if you want to choose the evidence, with filters for source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources, or if you need a local brand name checked in a registry such as the EMA or medicines.org.uk. Use AskMed if you're preparing for one of 10 licensing exams, or want an app with no pharma advertising. OpenEvidence's listing also describes tools outside clinical reference, such as Visits for ambient documentation and a Dialer for patient calls; AskMed doesn't offer note-taking or calling and focuses on cited answers and exam practice. ## How to check an AI medical answer Checking an AI medical answer, whether it comes from AskMed, OpenEvidence or any other tool, takes four steps, because any AI system can misread a source or leave something out. First, open the citation behind the sentence you plan to act on and confirm that the source says what the sentence says, for the same group of patients: a trial in adults doesn't answer a question about children. Second, look at the date and type of source: a current guideline outweighs an older review, and one small study is weaker than a meta-analysis. Third, check whose guidance it is, because NICE, US and European guidelines can disagree, so follow the one that applies where you practise. Fourth, take doses from the current prescribing information or your local formulary, never from an AI summary. AskMed speeds up these checks by labelling each source as a Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference, and by giving the year of each guideline recommendation it states. - Open the citation. Read the sentence in the source itself, not the summary of it. - Check the date and type. Prefer the newest guideline, then systematic reviews, then single studies. - Check whose guidance it is. Name your country in the question when local practice matters. - Get doses from the label. Use the current prescribing information or your local formulary. For what published studies found about general chatbots, see Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? ## Bottom line For most people who work or study in medicine, AskMed is the stronger choice over OpenEvidence. Both apps answer clinical questions with citations, but OpenEvidence is built around verified healthcare professionals in the US: its Terms of Use rule out the UK, the EU and the EEA, registration asks for an NPI or other professional licensing number, and its App Store listing says the app contains advertising. AskMed works worldwide with no NPI or license number, for doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers alike, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account. AskMed lets you set source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources on every question, checks drug registries outside the US such as the EMA, says so when no source supports an answer, and never gives drug doses. AskMed adds question banks for 10 licensing exams, carries no pharma advertising and comes in seven languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is AskMed better than OpenEvidence? For most people in medicine, yes. AskMed works worldwide with no NPI or license number, lets you set source filters on every question, checks drug registries outside the US, includes question banks for 10 licensing exams and carries no pharma advertising. Q: Can I use OpenEvidence in the UK or Europe? No. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use, last updated on September 17, 2026, say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, and that access from those regions is prohibited. AskMed works in all of them. Q: Do I need an NPI to use AskMed? No. AskMed needs no NPI, US license or other license number. OpenEvidence's registration asks for an NPI "or, as applicable, other professional licensing number", and its App Store listing says "NPI Required". Q: Does OpenEvidence show ads? OpenEvidence's US App Store listing says the app contains advertising, and its Terms of Use list sponsored programs and advertising among its services. AskMed carries no pharma advertising or sponsorship. Q: Which is better for exam prep? AskMed. It includes question banks for PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, with an explanation for every option and timed mocks. OpenEvidence's app listings mention no question bank. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | OpenEvidence Available in the UK, EU and EEA Use it wherever you practise | Worldwide | Not available, per its Terms of Use Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | No license number needed | Healthcare professionals with an NPI or other license number No pharma advertising No sponsored answers | ✓ | App Store: "Contains Advertising" Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names | ✓ | Not stated Exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated Says so when no source is found No answers from memory | ✓ | Not stated App in seven languages English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic | ✓ | English (App Store listing) ## References - OpenEvidence Terms of Use, last updated September 17, 2026 (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - OpenEvidence, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - OpenEvidence, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - OpenEvidence website, openevidence.com (accessed Nov 3, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/openevidence-vs-chatgpt-for-clinicians Title: OpenEvidence vs ChatGPT for Clinicians vs AskMed Compare · updated 3 November 2026 # OpenEvidence vs ChatGPT for Clinicians vs AskMed OpenEvidence, ChatGPT for Clinicians and AskMed all answer clinical questions with citations to published evidence. OpenEvidence is a clinical decision support and medical search app for healthcare professionals, and its App Store listing says an NPI is required. ChatGPT for Clinicians is a version of ChatGPT that OpenAI launched in April 2026 for verified US clinicians: physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists with a National Provider Identifier and a license that can be verified. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to its source. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account and no NPI or US license needed, and adds exam prep for 10 licensing exams. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of both OpenEvidence and ChatGPT for Clinicians on seven features, each checked on November 3, 2026 against OpenEvidence's website and App Store listing and against OpenAI's ChatGPT for Clinicians announcement, plan page and help center. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while OpenEvidence asks for an NPI and ChatGPT for Clinicians asks for an NPI and a clinical license. Second, AskMed works worldwide, and ChatGPT for Clinicians is open only to verified US clinicians at launch. Third, AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, which neither of the others states. Fourth, AskMed carries no pharma advertising, while OpenEvidence's App Store listing says the app contains advertising. Fifth, AskMed's source filters let you pick source types, study types and 3 to 12 sources. Sixth, AskMed checks official drug registries outside the US, such as the EMA. Seventh, AskMed says so when it finds no source. Each card below shows one row. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: Misses clinicians without a US NPI ChatGPT for Clinicians: Misses medical students and non-clinical researchers ### Works outside the US No NPI or US license needed AskMed: Worldwide OpenEvidence: NPI required ChatGPT for Clinicians: US only at launch ### Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams OpenEvidence: Not stated ChatGPT for Clinicians: Not stated ### No pharma advertising No sponsored answers AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: App Store: "Contains Advertising" ChatGPT for Clinicians: Not stated ### Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: Not stated ChatGPT for Clinicians: Clinical search picks its sources itself ### Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: Not stated ChatGPT for Clinicians: Not stated ### Says so when no source is found No answers from memory AskMed: ✓ OpenEvidence: Not stated ChatGPT for Clinicians: Not stated ## What is ChatGPT for Clinicians? ChatGPT for Clinicians is a version of ChatGPT that OpenAI launched in April 2026 for clinical work by verified US clinicians. OpenAI's help center lists physicians (MD/DO), nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists as eligible, and sign-up needs a ChatGPT account, a valid National Provider Identifier (NPI) and a license that a third-party provider can verify. ChatGPT for Clinicians offers clinical search over peer-reviewed studies, public health guidance and clinical guidelines, with citations that list titles, journals and publication dates; deep research, which compiles a cited report; reusable skills for documentation such as referral letters and patient instructions; and continuing medical education credit for eligible evidence review. OpenAI says clinical search chooses its sources itself, so clinicians don't set databases or filters. ChatGPT for Clinicians is separate from ChatGPT for Healthcare, OpenAI's product for health systems, and from ChatGPT Health, OpenAI's health space for consumers. AskMed covers the reference side of that list, cited answers, for clinicians and students in any country. ## How do OpenEvidence and ChatGPT for Clinicians differ? OpenEvidence and ChatGPT for Clinicians differ most in where they come from and what content they license. OpenEvidence is a medical search engine built for healthcare professionals; its App Store listing names content partners including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley, and says answers draw on more than 35 million peer-reviewed papers plus FDA and CDC sources. ChatGPT for Clinicians is OpenAI's general assistant adapted for clinical work, with clinical search, deep research and documentation skills in one ChatGPT workspace. Both are built around US practice: OpenEvidence's listing says an NPI is required, and ChatGPT for Clinicians checks an NPI and a license at sign-up. Neither states a question bank for licensing exams, and neither states source filters you set on an everyday question. AskMed fills those gaps for clinicians outside the US, for students, and for anyone who wants to choose the evidence behind an answer. ## Can you use ChatGPT for Clinicians outside the US? ChatGPT for Clinicians is not open to clinicians outside the US yet. OpenAI's help center says that at launch ChatGPT for Clinicians is available to verified clinicians in the United States and that OpenAI plans to expand access to more countries over time. As of November 3, 2026, OpenAI has published no date for any other country, so a clinician in Canada or Australia can't sign up yet. OpenEvidence is also built around US credentials: its App Store listing describes a medical search engine for healthcare professionals with "NPI Required", and the NPI is a US identifier. AskMed works worldwide and needs no NPI or US license, so a doctor in the UK, a pharmacist in Nigeria or a student in India uses the same app as a resident in the US. AskMed also searches non-US guidelines and agencies, such as NICE, WHO, ECDC and ESC, and drug registries such as the EMA. ## Which tool works for students, nurses and researchers? AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while OpenEvidence and ChatGPT for Clinicians are built around verified US providers. AskMed is for doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers, and an AskMed account needs no license number. ChatGPT for Clinicians lists physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists as eligible and asks for a license that can be verified, so medical students and researchers without a clinical license fall outside it. OpenEvidence's App Store listing describes a tool for healthcare professionals with "NPI Required" and says users must verify their healthcare professional status before using OpenEvidence, so a clinician without a US NPI falls outside the group it names. AskMed answers in the terms, drug classes and guideline names a colleague would use, so a nurse checking a monitoring plan, a pharmacist reviewing an interaction, a student revising for finals or a researcher scoping a question gets the same answer, with a source after each claim. AskMed is not a symptom checker and doesn't diagnose patients. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, while OpenEvidence and ChatGPT for Clinicians state no question bank for licensing exams. AskMed's question banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Each bank is written in the language of its exam, so a candidate for a non-English exam practices in the language of the real paper. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and a timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, then go back to the bank. For a medical student, a resident or an international medical graduate, AskMed keeps exam practice and cited clinical answers in one account on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in any country. For the US exams, the best AI apps for USMLE guide compares AskMed with other study tools for Step 1 and Step 2 CK, and the PLAB 1 guide does the same for the UK exam. ## How does AskMed answer a clinical question? AskMed answers a clinical question by searching a fixed list of medical sources first and writing the answer only from what that search finds. The list covers journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, the USPSTF, WHO, CDC and ECDC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels, plus official registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk for local brand names; and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and prefers sources from the last 10 years. Source filters let you turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off, pick study types and set 3 to 12 sources per answer. Every claim links to its source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase instead of answering from memory. AskMed never gives drug doses; exact amounts come from the current label. Two modes go further than a single answer. Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question, and Deep Dive writes a full evidence report from 20+ sources, with a second automated pass that corrects sentences contradicting their sources and adds missing safety facts. How AskMed answers explains the sources, citations and limits in full. ## How to choose an AI tool for clinical questions Choosing between OpenEvidence, ChatGPT for Clinicians and AskMed comes down to five checks, because all three cite their sources. First, check whether you can sign up: OpenEvidence and ChatGPT for Clinicians verify US credentials, which leaves out clinicians abroad, and ChatGPT for Clinicians also asks for a clinical license that medical students don't hold. Second, check where the tool works: ChatGPT for Clinicians is limited to the US at launch. Third, check whether you control the sources: filters for source types, study types and the number of sources let you match the evidence to the question. Fourth, check whether the tool helps you study for a licensing exam in the same app. Fifth, check who pays for the tool, since advertising can sit next to clinical answers, and OpenEvidence's App Store listing says the app contains advertising. AskMed meets all five checks with a stated feature: built for everyone in medicine, worldwide access with no NPI, source filters, Exam Prep for 10 exams and no pharma advertising. ## Bottom line AskMed is the strongest all-round pick of the three for people who work or study in medicine. OpenEvidence and ChatGPT for Clinicians both answer clinical questions with citations, but both are built around verified US providers: OpenEvidence's App Store listing says an NPI is required, and ChatGPT for Clinicians asks for an NPI and a license that can be verified and is limited to the US at launch. AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, from doctors, residents and medical students to nurses, pharmacists and researchers, and works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account and no NPI. AskMed adds Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, source filters you set on every question, official drug registries beyond the FDA such as the EMA, and a plain reply when no source supports an answer. AskMed carries no pharma advertising, while OpenEvidence's listing says the app contains advertising. AskMed works in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. ## Frequently asked questions Q: What is ChatGPT for Clinicians? ChatGPT for Clinicians is a version of ChatGPT that OpenAI launched in April 2026 for verified US clinicians, with clinical search, cited answers, deep research and documentation skills. OpenAI lists physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists as eligible, with a valid NPI and a license that can be verified. Q: Can I use ChatGPT for Clinicians outside the US? Not yet. OpenAI says ChatGPT for Clinicians is available to verified clinicians in the United States at launch and plans to add more countries over time, without a date. AskMed works worldwide and needs no NPI or US license. Q: Do you need an NPI for OpenEvidence? OpenEvidence's App Store listing says "NPI Required" and that users must verify their healthcare professional status before using OpenEvidence. AskMed needs no NPI. Q: Which is better for exam prep? AskMed. It includes Exam Prep for PLAB, USMLE, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, with explanations for every option and timed mocks. Neither OpenEvidence nor ChatGPT for Clinicians states a question bank for licensing exams. Q: Can medical students and nurses use AskMed? Yes. AskMed is built for everyone in medicine: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers, in any country, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how it works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with each claim linked to its source. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | OpenEvidence | ChatGPT for Clinicians Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | Misses clinicians without a US NPI | Misses medical students and non-clinical researchers Works outside the US No NPI or US license needed | Worldwide | NPI required | US only at launch Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated | Not stated No pharma advertising No sponsored answers | ✓ | App Store: "Contains Advertising" | Not stated Source filters on every question Source types, study types, 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated | Clinical search picks its sources itself Drug registries outside the US EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brand names | ✓ | Not stated | Not stated Says so when no source is found No answers from memory | ✓ | Not stated | Not stated ## References - ChatGPT for Clinicians launch announcement, OpenAI, April 2026 (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - ChatGPT for Clinicians, OpenAI Help Center (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - ChatGPT for Clinicians plan page, chatgpt.com (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - OpenEvidence website, openevidence.com (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - OpenEvidence, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-deepseek Title: AskMed vs DeepSeek: Cited Medical Answers Compare · updated Nov 3, 2026 # AskMed vs DeepSeek AskMed and DeepSeek both answer questions in a chat, but they are built for different jobs. DeepSeek is a general AI assistant from Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., listed under Productivity on the App Store and Google Play, and its Terms of Use describe its products as generative AI services based on large language models. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for everyone in medicine: doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to the source behind the claim. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account across all four. This page compares the two for medical questions only, using DeepSeek's own website, terms and app store pages. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead For medical questions, AskMed comes out ahead of DeepSeek on seven features, each checked on November 3, 2026 against deepseek.com, the DeepSeek Terms of Use and the DeepSeek pages on the App Store and Google Play. First, AskMed is built for everyone in medicine, while DeepSeek describes itself as a general AI assistant. Second, AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels before every answer; DeepSeek offers an optional Search function and doesn't state which sources it uses. Third, AskMed links every claim to its source. Fourth, AskMed says so when it finds no usable medical source instead of answering from memory. Fifth, AskMed reads official drug labels and drug registries from many countries. Sixth, AskMed's source filters let you pick study types and set 3 to 12 sources. Seventh, AskMed includes exam question banks for 10 licensing exams. DeepSeek's own pages don't state the last five, so the cards say “Not stated”. ### Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers AskMed: ✓ DeepSeek: General assistant, not built for clinical sources ### Medical sources searched before every answer Journals, guidelines and drug labels AskMed: ✓ DeepSeek: Optional Search; sources not stated ### Every claim cited A source link after each claim AskMed: ✓ DeepSeek: Not stated ### Says so when no source is found No answer from memory AskMed: ✓ DeepSeek: Not stated ### Official drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk AskMed: ✓ DeepSeek: Not stated ### Source filters Study types and 3 to 12 sources AskMed: ✓ DeepSeek: Not stated ### Exam prep question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams DeepSeek: Not stated ## What is DeepSeek? DeepSeek is a general-purpose AI assistant made by Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., the seller named on its App Store page. The DeepSeek app is titled “DeepSeek - AI Assistant” with the subtitle “Intelligent AI Assistant”, and both the App Store and Google Play list DeepSeek under Productivity, not Medical. DeepSeek runs on the web at chat.deepseek.com and in apps for iPhone and Android, and the deepseek.com home page shows DeepThink and Search options. The DeepSeek store description says the app is powered by DeepSeek's latest flagship model and helps you solve problems, without naming medicine or health. The DeepSeek Terms of Use, last updated March 27, 2026, say outputs “may contain errors or omissions and are for your reference only”, that you should not treat outputs as professional advice, that medical questions belong with qualified professionals, and that outputs used for medical decisions must undergo human review. Those terms present DeepSeek as a general tool and leave medical judgment to qualified professionals. ## How do AskMed and DeepSeek answer a medical question differently? AskMed and DeepSeek differ most in where a medical answer comes from. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical websites before any answer is written: PubMed and the Cochrane Library, journals such as NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ, guidelines from NICE, WHO, CDC, ESC, KDIGO and GINA, FDA and DailyMed drug labels, and references such as StatPearls and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed skips forums and social media, ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and draws on 8 sources by default, each linked after the claim it supports. DeepSeek answers from its large language model, and the DeepSeek Terms of Use describe an optional Search function that may improve the accuracy of outputs to some extent; DeepSeek's pages don't list which sites that search reads. When AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed returns a fixed reply asking you to rephrase rather than an answer written from memory. How AskMed answers covers the full source list. ## Which is better for drug questions? For drug questions, AskMed is the better fit because AskMed answers from official drug labels, the prescribing information a regulator approved. AskMed reads FDA labels and DailyMed, and for local brand names AskMed also checks official drug registries from many countries, such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk, so a brand sold in Europe or the UK leads to the right label. Each drug claim links to the label's exact web address, so a pharmacist checking an interaction or a nurse checking a side effect can open the label and confirm the wording. DeepSeek's website, terms and store pages don't state that DeepSeek reads drug labels or registries. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions. An AskMed drug answer still covers what the drug is used for, how the drug works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is chosen and adjusted for kidney or liver function, monitoring, side effects and safety, with exact amounts left to the current label. ## Exam prep for 10 licensing exams AskMed includes Exam Prep with question banks for 10 licensing exams: PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. DeepSeek's pages don't state any exam question banks. AskMed's questions are written in advance, not generated by AI when you ask, and each bank is in the language of its exam, so EDN questions are in French, ENARM in Spanish, TUS in Turkish and UKOMNAS in Indonesian. Every question has an explanation for every option, not only the correct one, and 1 to 3 linked sources, and only reviewed questions are served. A timed mock exam lets you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels. For guides by exam, see best AI apps for USMLE and best AI apps for PLAB 1. ## When should you use AskMed or DeepSeek? Use AskMed when the question is medical and the answer needs to be checked: a guideline recommendation, a drug interaction, a contraindication, the evidence behind a treatment, or a topic for a licensing exam. AskMed suits doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers who need to open the source behind each claim, filter by study type, or set how many sources an answer draws on, from 3 to 12. Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question, and Deep Dive writes an evidence report from 20+ sources. Use DeepSeek for the general tasks a general AI assistant is built for, such as drafting text, working through a problem or everyday questions outside medicine. The DeepSeek Terms of Use ask users to consult qualified professionals for medical questions and to have outputs reviewed by a person before any medical decision. AskMed is not a symptom checker and doesn't diagnose patients; AskMed is a cited reference for people who work or study in medicine. ## How to check an AI medical answer Checking an AI medical answer takes four steps, whether the answer comes from AskMed, DeepSeek or any other chatbot. First, open the source behind each claim, not only the list at the end: a citation is only useful if the linked page says what the sentence says. Second, check the type of source, since a current clinical guideline or a systematic review outweighs a single small study, and a drug label outweighs a website that summarizes it. Third, check the date, because guidance changes; AskMed prefers sources from the last 10 years and says what changed when guidance has been updated. Fourth, confirm any drug amount in the current prescribing information, which is why AskMed gives no doses at all. An answer that cites nothing gives you nothing to check, so AskMed replaces an uncited answer with a fixed reply. For what studies found on general chatbots, read is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? - Open the source. Click the link after the claim and find the sentence it rests on. If the page doesn't say it, don't rely on it. - Weigh the source. Guidelines and systematic reviews come first, then reviews and large trials, then smaller studies. - Check the date. Look for the guideline year and whether a newer update exists. - Check drugs on the label. Indications, warnings, interactions and amounts belong to the current prescribing information. ## Bottom line For medical questions, AskMed is the stronger choice over DeepSeek. DeepSeek is a capable general AI assistant, listed under Productivity, whose own Terms of Use say outputs are for reference only and that medical questions belong with qualified professionals. AskMed is built for that medical work: built for doctors, nurses, medical students, pharmacists and researchers, AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels before every answer, links every claim to its source, and says so when no usable source turns up. AskMed reads FDA and DailyMed labels plus drug registries from many countries, lets you filter by study type and set 3 to 12 sources, and includes exam question banks for 10 licensing exams, from PLAB and USMLE to NEET-PG and ENARM. AskMed never gives drug doses and carries no pharma advertising. AskMed runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account, in seven languages, with no US license or NPI needed. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is DeepSeek good for medical questions? DeepSeek is a general AI assistant. The DeepSeek Terms of Use say outputs may contain errors or omissions, are for reference only and are not professional advice, and that medical decisions need human review. AskMed is built for medical questions and cites a medical source for every claim. Q: What does AskMed have that DeepSeek doesn't state? AskMed searches journals, guidelines and drug labels before every answer, cites every claim, says so when no source is found, reads drug registries from many countries, offers source filters and includes exam question banks for 10 licensing exams. DeepSeek's own pages don't state these. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. AskMed still explains what a drug is used for, how dosing is chosen and adjusted, monitoring, side effects and safety, and links the drug label for exact amounts. Q: Who is AskMed for? AskMed is built for everyone in medicine: doctors in every specialty, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. AskMed is not a symptom checker and doesn't diagnose patients. Q: Can I use AskMed outside the US? Yes. AskMed works worldwide and needs no NPI or US license, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | DeepSeek Built for everyone in medicine Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers | ✓ | General assistant, not built for clinical sources Medical sources searched before every answer Journals, guidelines and drug labels | ✓ | Optional Search; sources not stated Every claim cited A source link after each claim | ✓ | Not stated Says so when no source is found No answer from memory | ✓ | Not stated Official drug labels and registries FDA, DailyMed, EMA, medicines.org.uk | ✓ | Not stated Source filters Study types and 3 to 12 sources | ✓ | Not stated Exam prep question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated ## References - DeepSeek website, deepseek.com (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - DeepSeek Terms of Use, sections 1, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.4, last updated March 27, 2026 (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - DeepSeek - AI Assistant, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - DeepSeek - AI Assistant, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - How AskMed answers, getaskmed.com: AskMed's sources, citations, no-source reply and no-dose rule --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/openevidence-alternatives Title: OpenEvidence Alternatives Outside the US | AskMed # OpenEvidence Alternatives for Doctors Outside the US Why OpenEvidence is hard to use outside the US, our pick, then the other options side by side. Updated 3 November 2026 ## Why is OpenEvidence hard to use outside the US? OpenEvidence is hard to use outside the US because its terms, its sign-up and its app listings are built around US clinicians. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use, last updated on 17 September 2026, say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area or any country under a US trade embargo, and that any access to or use of it from those regions is prohibited. Registration asks for a National Provider Identifier (NPI), the US provider number, "or, as applicable, other professional licensing number". OpenEvidence's App Store listing describes it as being for "Healthcare Professionals (NPI Required)" and says users must verify their healthcare professional status before using it. Canada has its own route: since September 2026, Canadian physicians can verify with their MINC number. When we checked Apple's App Store on 3 November 2026, the OpenEvidence app was listed in the US and Canadian stores but not in the UK, Indian or Australian ones. - UK, EU and EEA. OpenEvidence's terms rule out use from these regions, whatever your licence. The terms also ask users not to use OpenEvidence to give medical advice or clinical guidance to people in the EU, UK or EEA. - Canada. OpenEvidence and MINC#NIMC announced on 11 September 2026 that Canadian physicians can verify by entering their MINC (Medical Identification Number for Canada) at registration. - India, Australia and other countries. The terms accept "other professional licensing number" where applicable, but we could not find a public list of which non-US licence numbers OpenEvidence accepts. The iPhone app was not in the Indian, Australian, South African, Nigerian, Pakistani or Philippine App Stores when we checked. - No NPI. If you trained abroad and don't yet have an NPI, or you're a student, you still need to pass OpenEvidence's healthcare professional verification before you can use it. Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for clinicians outside the US because it works worldwide with no NPI or US licence. Every claim in an answer links to the journal, guideline or drug label it came from. Where | Worldwide, no NPI or US licence needed For | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students, researchers Sources | Journals, guidelines, drug labels, clinical references Citations | A link after every claim Local drugs | Official registries such as EMA, medicines.org.uk, CDSCO, TGA Research | Research Mode analyzes up to 20 papers Languages | English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic Doses | Never Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## The other OpenEvidence alternatives, ranked The other OpenEvidence alternatives that clinicians outside the US weigh up are BMJ Best Practice, UpToDate, DynaMed and ChatGPT, and each works differently. BMJ Best Practice, UpToDate and DynaMed are point-of-care references written by editors and clinical experts, so you read a topic rather than ask a chatbot. UpToDate and DynaMed have added AI answers built on their own content, with regional limits: Wolters Kluwer says UpToDate Pro Plus featuring Expert AI is currently available only in the United States and Canada, and EBSCO says Dyna AI is currently unavailable in the EU. BMJ says BMJ Best Practice is used by healthcare professionals in more than 100 countries. ChatGPT is a general AI chatbot, not a medical reference. Doximity GPT and OpenAI's ChatGPT for Clinicians are left off this list because both are for verified US clinicians. The list and table below rank the four that work outside the US. - BMJ Best Practice. An evidence-based clinical reference from BMJ covering diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention, step by step. BMJ says it is updated daily and linked to international guidelines, has a local guidance feature, and its app works offline. Best when you want a structured topic to read at the bedside. - UpToDate. Wolters Kluwer's clinical decision support reference, with topics written and kept current by expert authors. Subscriptions are sold outside the US, but for individual subscribers, Expert AI (UpToDate's AI answers) comes with UpToDate Pro Plus, which Wolters Kluwer says is currently available only in the United States and Canada. Some hospitals in other countries have Expert AI through an enterprise licence. - DynaMed. EBSCO's point-of-care reference. Its AI feature, Dyna AI, answers clinical questions from DynaMed's own curated content, and EBSCO launched Dyna AI Mode inside DynaMed in February 2026. EBSCO's press releases say Dyna AI is currently unavailable in the EU. - ChatGPT. OpenAI's general AI chatbot, available in most countries. It can explain a topic in plain language, but it isn't limited to medical sources, so open and check every source it gives. OpenAI's separate ChatGPT for Clinicians, launched in April 2026, is for verified clinicians in the United States. App | Type | Outside the US | AI answers | Where answers come from AskMed | AI medical reference | Worldwide, no NPI needed | Yes | Journals, guidelines and drug labels, a citation after every claim OpenEvidence | AI medical search | Not in the UK, EU or EEA; Canada via MINC | Yes | Peer-reviewed medical literature, with references BMJ Best Practice | Clinical reference | Yes, used in 100+ countries | Not stated | BMJ topics linked to international guidelines UpToDate | Clinical reference | Yes | Expert AI: individuals in the US and Canada only | UpToDate's expert-written topics DynaMed | Clinical reference | Yes | Dyna AI: not in the EU | DynaMed's curated topics ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Most countries | Yes | Not limited to medical sources; check each one ## What should you look for in an OpenEvidence alternative? A good OpenEvidence alternative for a clinician outside the US should pass five checks. First, you can sign up where you practise, without an NPI or a US licence, and the app is in your country's App Store or Google Play. Second, every claim in an answer links to a source you can open, such as a journal article, a guideline or a drug label, so you can check it before you act. Third, it knows non-US guidance and drug names: a doctor in London follows NICE, a cardiologist in Madrid reads ESC guidelines, and a pharmacist in Mumbai needs Indian brand names. Fourth, it works on the devices you use on the ward and at home, phone and laptop alike. Fifth, its limits are stated plainly, such as whether it gives doses and what it does when it finds no evidence. The list below shows how AskMed meets each of the five. - Access where you work. AskMed works worldwide and doesn't ask for an NPI or a medical licence. It's on the App Store, Google Play and the web. - A citation for every claim. Each sentence or clause in an AskMed answer is followed by a link to the source that supports it, and the app turns those links into numbered references. - Non-US guidance and drug names. AskMed searches NICE, WHO, ECDC and ESC alongside US sources such as the CDC and the US Preventive Services Task Force, and looks up local brand names in official registries from many countries. Name your country in the question when local practice matters, and the answer can follow the guidance that applies there. - Every device. One AskMed account works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. - Clear limits. AskMed never gives drug doses, and when it finds no usable source it says so rather than guessing. Read how AskMed answers for the full list of limits. ## How does AskMed answer a clinical question? AskMed answers a clinical question by searching a fixed list of trusted medical sources first and then having an AI language model write the answer from what that search found. AskMed does not search the open web, forums or social media. It prefers guidelines and health agencies, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then review articles and references, then large trials and other studies, and it favours sources from the last 10 years unless the topic is settled basic science. Each answer draws on 8 sources by default, and the Number of sources slider lets you pick any number from 3 to 12. Source filters turn journals, guidelines, drug labels and references on or off, and let you choose study types such as systematic reviews or clinical trials. When sources disagree, the answer says so and says which evidence is stronger. Answers are AI-generated and not reviewed by a person before you see them, so open the citation behind any claim you plan to act on. - Ask in your own words. Say who the patient is, the setting and your country when local practice matters. A short follow-up such as "and in pregnancy?" is read together with your previous question. - Attach a file. Add a PDF or an image for context. AskMed can cite your file for what the file itself says, and every other medical fact still needs a published source. - Go deeper with Research Mode. Research Mode analyzes up to 20 papers on a question, for journal club or a literature review. - Check and report. Open the numbered citation behind a sentence to read the source. If an answer looks wrong, tap the thumbs down and say why. Studying for a licensing exam as well? See the best AI apps for PLAB 1 and the best AI apps for USMLE. ## Questions Q: Can I use OpenEvidence in the UK or Europe? No. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use, last updated on 17 September 2026, say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, and that any access to or use of it from those regions is prohibited. The same rule covers any country under a US trade embargo. The terms also ask users not to use OpenEvidence to give medical advice, clinical guidance or healthcare recommendations to people in the EU, UK or EEA, and OpenEvidence's acceptable use policy rules out submitting information about people who live there. A UK or European medical licence doesn't change this, because the limit is on where the service is used, not on who you are. Clinicians in the UK, EU and EEA who want cited answers to clinical questions can use AskMed, which works worldwide, or a clinical reference such as BMJ Best Practice. If you use UpToDate or DynaMed there, check which of their AI features are offered in your country. Q: Can I use OpenEvidence without an NPI? OpenEvidence's registration asks for a National Provider Identifier (NPI) "or, as applicable, other professional licensing number", and its App Store listing says "NPI Required". Canadian physicians can verify with their MINC number. AskMed needs no NPI or medical licence. Q: Is OpenEvidence available in India, Canada or Australia? In Canada, yes: physicians can verify with their MINC number. For India and Australia, OpenEvidence's terms don't name either country, but the OpenEvidence iPhone app was not in the Indian or Australian App Stores when we checked on 3 November 2026. Q: Do I need a medical licence or an NPI to use AskMed? No. AskMed works worldwide, and you don't need a medical licence or an NPI to sign up. One account works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Q: Does AskMed follow non-US guidelines? Yes. AskMed searches NICE, WHO, ECDC and ESC guidance as well as US sources, and is instructed to give the year of each guideline recommendation it states. Name your country in the question, and check which guideline applies where you practise. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, schedules or dose calculations. It explains what a drug is used for, how it works, monitoring and safety, and exact dosing comes from the current prescribing information. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-apps-for-doctors Title: Best AI Apps for Doctors in 2026 | AskMed # Best AI Apps for Doctors in 2026 AI apps that answer clinical questions. Our pick first, then the others side by side. Updated 3 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for doctors who want answers they can check. It searches journals, guidelines and drug labels before it answers, and links every claim to its source. Answers from | Journals, clinical guidelines, drug labels and clinical references Citations | A link after every claim; 8 sources per answer by default, 3–12 if you change it No source found | Says so, never answers from memory Extras | Research Mode (up to 20 papers), source filters, PDF and image attachments Doses | Never Built for | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical students, researchers Where | Worldwide, no US license or NPI needed Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## Which other AI apps do doctors use? Five other AI tools answer doctors' clinical questions in 2026: OpenEvidence, ChatGPT for Clinicians, Doximity Ask, UpToDate Expert AI and Glass, alongside the general ChatGPT app that many doctors already have. OpenEvidence is a medical search engine with official content partnerships with NEJM, JAMA, NCCN and the Cochrane Library. ChatGPT for Clinicians is a ChatGPT workspace that OpenAI launched in April 2026 for verified US clinicians, with cited answers. Doximity Ask, formerly DoxGPT, gives cited answers inside Doximity, the network of US clinicians. UpToDate Expert AI answers only from UpToDate's own topics and comes with select UpToDate subscriptions. Glass pairs clinical decision support with an ambient scribe. This guide covers question-answering tools; AI scribes that write notes from a visit are a different category. The table compares where each tool's answers come from, who can sign up, and which devices it runs on. App | Answers drawn from | Who can sign up | Devices AskMed | Journals, guidelines and drug labels, with a link after every claim | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, worldwide; no NPI | iPhone, iPad, Android, web OpenEvidence | Peer-reviewed literature, with NEJM, JAMA, NCCN, Nature and Cochrane as partners, plus FDA and CDC sources | Verified healthcare professionals; its App Store listing says an NPI is required | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ChatGPT for Clinicians | Cited answers that give each source's title, journal and date | Verified US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists | Not stated ChatGPT | A general-purpose model, not limited to medical sources | Anyone | iPhone, Android, web Doximity Ask | Medical literature, with citations shown inline | Verified US clinicians | iPhone, Android, web UpToDate Expert AI | UpToDate's own clinical topics only | Select UpToDate enterprise and personal subscriptions; varies by country | Web, UpToDate app Glass | Decision-support drafts with in-text citations, plus an ambient scribe | Licensed clinicians | Web, iOS, Android - OpenEvidence. A clinical decision support platform and medical search engine for healthcare professionals, who must verify their status before using it. Its App Store listing names NEJM, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, NCCN, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley as official partners, describes 35 million+ peer-reviewed papers plus FDA and CDC sources, and lists EvidenceGrade, a rating of the evidence behind each answer, and CME credits for asking questions. - ChatGPT for Clinicians. OpenAI launched it on 22 April 2026 for US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists, verified with an NPI and a license check. Each response cites its sources with title, journal and publication date. OpenAI says it plans to expand outside the US, starting with a pilot through the Better Evidence Network. - ChatGPT. The general ChatGPT app is useful for drafting and for talking a topic through. It is not limited to medical sources, so check any clinical claim against a guideline or drug label before you act on it. - Doximity Ask. Part of Doximity, which describes itself as the largest network of US clinicians. Ask gives cited answers grounded in medical literature and also drafts appeal letters, prior authorizations and patient messages. Doximity says the platform is HIPAA-compliant. - UpToDate Expert AI. Wolters Kluwer's generative AI for UpToDate, announced in September 2025. Answers draw only on UpToDate's own content and link to the UpToDate topics behind them. Access comes through select enterprise and personal UpToDate subscriptions, and availability varies by region, so it suits doctors whose hospital already has UpToDate. - Glass. Glass Health's app drafts answers to clinical questions, differential diagnoses and treatment plans with in-text citations for clinician review, and includes an ambient scribe. It is intended for licensed healthcare professionals. ## What should you look for in a medical AI app? The best medical AI app for a doctor is one whose answers can be checked quickly and that works where the doctor practises. Four things matter most. First, citations: every clinical claim should link to the specific journal article, guideline or drug label behind it, not to a reading list at the end. Second, sources: the app should say which sources it searches, such as PubMed, NICE, WHO or FDA labels, and what it does when it finds nothing. Third, availability: several leading tools require US clinician verification, such as an NPI, so doctors outside the US, students and other health professionals should confirm they can sign up before relying on one. Fourth, privacy: read how the app handles your questions and attachments, and leave out anything that identifies a patient unless you are allowed to share it. The list below explains each point and how AskMed handles it. - A citation on every claim. One source per paragraph is hard to check. AskMed puts a link after each sentence or clause, using the source's exact web address, and the app turns those links into numbered references. Each answer draws on 8 sources by default, and you can set 3 to 12. - Named, trusted sources. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, not the open web, forums or social media. It prefers guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then reviews and references, then trials. Source filters let you switch journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on and off. - An honest "no answer". An app that always answers will sometimes answer from nothing. When AskMed's search finds no usable source, you get a fixed reply saying so, and an answer that comes back citing no source is replaced by the same reply. - Availability. AskMed works worldwide with no US license or NPI, and one account covers iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. The app is in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic, and answers in the language of the question. - Privacy. When you attach a PDF or photo, AskMed reads it on your device and sends only the extracted text, which is not stored on AskMed's servers. AskMed's privacy policy says questions are never sold or used for advertising, and asks you not to include details that identify a patient unless you are allowed to share them. ## How does AskMed answer a clinical question? AskMed answers a clinical question in three steps: search, write and cite. First, AskMed rewrites the question in precise medical terms and searches its fixed list of medical sources; for management questions it adds "latest guideline update" so the newest guidance turns up. It prefers sources from the last 10 years unless the topic is settled basic science, and when guidance has changed, the answer says what changed and since which year. Second, an AI language model writes the answer from what the search found, opening with a direct answer and adding only the sections the question needs, such as mechanism, diagnosis or evidence quality. Third, every claim is followed by a link to its source. When sources disagree, the answer says so and says which evidence is stronger. No person reviews an answer before you see it, so open the citation behind any sentence you act on. How AskMed answers has the full detail. - Give the patient context. Age, pregnancy, kidney or liver function, the setting and your country change the answer, because guidelines and drug approvals differ between countries. - Use generic drug names. For local brand names, AskMed also checks official drug registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk. - Ask follow-ups. A short follow-up such as "and in pregnancy?" is read together with your previous question and answer. - Expect no doses. AskMed explains what a drug is used for, how dosing is chosen and adjusted, monitoring and side effects, and leaves amounts and schedules to the current prescribing information. ## Which AI app is best for your situation? The best AI tool for a doctor depends on where the doctor practises and what the tool needs to do. For cited answers to clinical questions in any country and on any device, AskMed is the pick: it needs no US license or NPI, and one account serves doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Verified US clinicians can also use OpenEvidence, which licenses full text from NEJM, JAMA, Nature and Cochrane, or ChatGPT for Clinicians, which cites journal articles with their titles and dates. Doctors whose hospital already subscribes to UpToDate can try UpToDate Expert AI, which answers only from UpToDate topics. Doximity members get Doximity Ask alongside letter drafting and Doximity's other tools. Doctors who mainly want help writing notes should look at AI scribes instead; Glass pairs a scribe with decision support. Medical students preparing for exams can compare study apps in our exam guides. - Studying for an exam? See Best AI apps for USMLE and Best AI apps for PLAB 1. - Comparing AI medical search apps? See AskMed vs MediSearch and AskMed vs Dr.Oracle. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI app for doctors? The best AI app for doctors in 2026 is the one whose answers you can check, and for that AskMed is our pick. AskMed answers clinical questions from journals, clinical guidelines and drug labels, links every claim to its source, and says so when it finds no usable source instead of answering from memory. AskMed works in every country with no US license or NPI, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, so it suits doctors outside the US as well as nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers. Verified US clinicians also have OpenEvidence, ChatGPT for Clinicians and Doximity Ask, each with cited answers, and hospitals that subscribe to UpToDate may offer UpToDate Expert AI, which answers from UpToDate's own topics. Whichever app you choose, open the citation behind any sentence you plan to act on, and take doses from the current drug label. Q: Is ChatGPT good for medical questions? The general ChatGPT app is not limited to medical sources, so check any clinical claim it makes against a guideline or drug label. OpenAI's ChatGPT for Clinicians, for verified US clinicians, adds citations with each source's title, journal and date. AskMed searches only a fixed list of medical sources and cites every claim. Q: Can doctors outside the US use these apps? AskMed works worldwide with no US license or NPI. OpenEvidence, ChatGPT for Clinicians and Doximity Ask are built around US clinician verification, and UpToDate Expert AI's availability varies by country. Q: Does this list include AI scribes? No. This guide compares apps that answer clinical questions. AI scribes that write notes from a patient visit are a different kind of tool, and AskMed is not a scribe. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed explains what a drug is used for, how it works, how dosing is chosen and adjusted, monitoring and side effects, and leaves exact amounts to the current prescribing information. Q: Can I enter patient details? Give clinical context such as age, pregnancy or kidney function, but leave out anything that identifies a patient unless you are allowed to share it. Attached PDFs and photos are read on your device, and only the extracted text is sent. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-medisearch Title: AskMed vs MediSearch: Which AI Medical Search Is Better? Compare · updated Nov 3, 2026 # AskMed vs MediSearch AskMed and MediSearch are both AI apps that answer medical questions with citations to published research. MediSearch describes itself as a search engine for science-based answers to medical questions, and the MediSearch App Store page speaks to "a medical professional or someone seeking general health information". AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for healthcare professionals and students: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. Before AskMed writes an answer, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ, NICE, WHO and CDC, and links every claim to the source behind the claim. AskMed works worldwide on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one account across all four and no US license or NPI needed. Compared with MediSearch, AskMed adds official drug labels as a source, Deep Dive evidence reports with 20+ sources, Research Mode and exam prep for 10 licensing exams. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of MediSearch on six features, each checked on November 3, 2026 against the MediSearch website, App Store page and Google Play page. First, AskMed is built only for healthcare professionals and students, while MediSearch also writes for the general public. Second, AskMed answers drug questions from official prescribing labels, and MediSearch draws on drug websites such as drugs.com. Third, AskMed's Deep Dive writes a full evidence report with 20+ sources; MediSearch offers no evidence reports. Fourth, AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, including PLAB, USMLE and NEET-PG, and MediSearch has no exam prep. Fifth, AskMed's Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question, while MediSearch's pages don't state an equivalent. Sixth, AskMed carries no pharma advertising or sponsored answers, a point MediSearch's pages don't address. Each card below shows one of the six rows. ### Built only for healthcare professionals Not for patients' self-diagnosis AskMed: ✓ MediSearch: Also for the general public ### Official drug labels as a source Drug facts from the prescribing label AskMed: ✓ MediSearch: Drug websites such as drugs.com ### Full evidence reports A long report with 20+ sources AskMed: Deep Dive MediSearch: ✗ ### Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams MediSearch: ✗ ### Research Mode Reads up to 20 papers for one question AskMed: ✓ MediSearch: Not stated ### No pharma advertising No sponsored answers AskMed: ✓ MediSearch: Not stated ## Pricing comparison Prices in US dollars, as each app lists them; MediSearch prices from its US App Store page, checked November 3, 2026. AskMed Pro $24.99/month or $129.99/year - Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels - Research Mode, up to 20 papers - Source filters, PDF and image attachments - iPhone, iPad, Android and web MediSearch PRO $14.99 to $199.99 - PRO in-app purchases on the US App Store: $14.99, $22.49, $29.99, $99.99, $149.99 and $199.99 - Billing period not shown on its App Store page ## Built for healthcare professionals and students AskMed is built only for healthcare professionals and students, while MediSearch writes for patients and professionals at once. The MediSearch App Store page speaks to "a medical professional or someone seeking general health information" and says MediSearch "breaks down complex medical jargon into simple, understandable language", and Google Play lists MediSearch under Health & Fitness. AskMed is built for doctors in every specialty, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers, so AskMed answers in the terms, drug classes and guideline names a colleague would use. AskMed is not a symptom checker, doesn't diagnose patients and carries no pharma advertising or sponsorship. AskMed works worldwide without a US license or NPI, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. For a nurse checking a monitoring plan, a pharmacist reviewing an interaction or a researcher scoping a question, AskMed gives one professional-level answer with the source linked after each claim. ## Drug facts from the label AskMed answers drug questions from official drug labels, the prescribing information approved by the regulator, while MediSearch draws on drug websites such as drugs.com. The prescribing label is the primary document for a medicine's indications, contraindications, boxed warnings, interactions and adverse reactions. A drug website is a secondary summary of the label, and a summary can lag behind a label update or leave out a warning. AskMed reads FDA labels and DailyMed, and for local brand names AskMed also checks official drug registries from many countries, such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk, so a brand name sold in Europe or the UK leads to the right label. Each drug claim in AskMed links to the label's exact web address, so a pharmacist checking an interaction or a nurse checking a side effect can open the label and confirm the wording. AskMed gives no doses; exact amounts come from the current label. ## Going deeper AskMed goes deeper than a single answer in two ways, and MediSearch doesn't offer evidence reports. Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question before AskMed answers, which helps when the evidence sits in the literature rather than in a guideline: a gap in the guidelines, a patient who doesn't match the trial population, or a newer treatment with mixed results. Deep Dive goes further and writes a full evidence report from 20+ sources, the kind of summary a resident brings to a journal club or a team brings to a case discussion. Each Deep Dive report also gets a second automated pass after writing, which corrects sentences that contradict their sources, the drug label or the current guideline, and adds missing safety facts such as contraindications, boxed warnings and interactions. The second pass is automated, not a human review, so every claim in a Deep Dive report still links to a source you can check. ## Three ways to ask For readers comparing AskMed with MediSearch, AskMed offers three ways to ask a medical question: a cited answer, Research Mode and Deep Dive. A standard AskMed question gets a cited answer: AskMed searches journals, guidelines, drug labels and medical references, ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and links every claim to the source's exact web address. If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase instead of answering from memory. Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question, and Deep Dive builds an evidence report from 20+ sources. Source filters let you turn journals, guidelines, drug labels or references on or off and pick study types, from systematic reviews to clinical trials. You can also attach a PDF or an image, and AskMed cites your file for what the file itself says. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, and MediSearch has no exam prep. AskMed's question banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Each bank is written in the language of its exam, so a candidate for a non-English exam practices in the language of the real paper. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and a timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, then go back to the bank. For a medical student, a resident or an international medical graduate, AskMed keeps exam practice and cited clinical answers in one account on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. ## How to choose an AI tool for clinical questions Choosing an AI tool for clinical questions takes more than checking for citations, because most AI search tools, MediSearch and AskMed included, now cite sources. Five checks separate one tool from another. First, check who the tool is built for: a tool written for patients and clinicians at once pitches every answer at both audiences. Second, check where drug facts come from: the prescribing label is the document the regulator approved, and drug websites summarize the label. Third, check whether the tool can go deeper than one answer, with a mode that reads many papers and writes up the evidence. Fourth, check whether the tool helps you study for a licensing exam in the same app. Fifth, check who pays for the tool, since sponsored content can sit next to clinical answers. AskMed meets all five with a stated feature: built only for professionals and students, official drug labels, Research Mode and Deep Dive, Exam Prep for 10 exams, and no pharma advertising. - Who is it built for? A tool written for patients and clinicians at once has to pitch every answer at both. One built only for clinicians can answer at the level you work at, in the terms you would use with a colleague. - Where do its drug facts come from? The prescribing label is the document the regulator approved. Drug websites summarize it, and a summary can lag behind a label update or leave out a warning. Ask which one the tool reads. - Can it go deeper than one answer? Some questions need the literature, not a paragraph: a journal club, a gap in the guidelines, a patient who doesn't match the trial population. Look for a mode that reads many papers and writes up what they show. - Does it help you study? If you're preparing for a licensing exam, one app that answers clinical questions and drills exam questions saves you switching between tools. - Who pays for it? Free tools funded by advertising can place sponsored content next to clinical answers. A tool with no pharma advertising has no sponsor to keep happy. ## Bottom line For healthcare professionals and students, AskMed is the stronger choice over MediSearch. Both apps answer medical questions with citations, but AskMed is built only for people who work or study in medicine (doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers), while MediSearch also writes for the general public. AskMed answers drug questions from official drug labels such as FDA and DailyMed, where MediSearch draws on drug websites such as drugs.com. AskMed's Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question, and Deep Dive writes an evidence report from 20+ sources, which MediSearch doesn't offer. AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, from PLAB and USMLE to NEET-PG and ENARM, and MediSearch has no exam prep. AskMed carries no pharma advertising, says so when no source supports an answer, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account, in seven languages, with no US license or NPI needed. ## Frequently asked questions Q: What does AskMed have that MediSearch doesn't? AskMed has three things MediSearch doesn't: Deep Dive evidence reports with 20+ sources, Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, and official drug labels as a source. Q: Which is better for exam prep? AskMed. It includes Exam Prep for PLAB, USMLE, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. MediSearch doesn't offer exam prep. Q: How much does AskMed cost compared with MediSearch? AskMed Pro is $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year. MediSearch lists PRO in-app purchases on the US App Store from $14.99 to $199.99, without saying which is monthly or yearly. Q: Is AskMed a symptom checker? No. AskMed is a medical reference for healthcare professionals and students, not a symptom checker, while the MediSearch App Store page also speaks to people seeking general health information. AskMed doesn't diagnose patients, doesn't decide treatment for a person and isn't for emergencies. AskMed also never gives medication doses, dose calculations, titration schedules or patient-specific prescribing instructions, even for exam questions or hypothetical cases. A drug answer in AskMed still covers what the drug is used for, how the drug works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is chosen and adjusted for kidney or liver function, age, weight or interactions, monitoring, side effects and safety. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. Every AskMed answer is written by AI from the sources AskMed found, with each claim linked to its source, so a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, student or researcher can open the citation and check the claim before acting on the answer. Q: Can I use AskMed outside the US? Yes. AskMed works worldwide and needs no NPI or US license, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | MediSearch Built only for healthcare professionals Not for patients' self-diagnosis | ✓ | Also for the general public Official drug labels as a source Drug facts from the prescribing label | ✓ | Drug websites such as drugs.com Full evidence reports A long report with 20+ sources | Deep Dive | ✗ Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | ✗ Research Mode Reads up to 20 papers for one question | ✓ | Not stated No pharma advertising No sponsored answers | ✓ | Not stated ## References - MediSearch website, medisearch.io (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - MediSearch AI, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - MediSearch, Google Play listing (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Introducing MediSearch Pro, medisearch.io, December 12, 2024 --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-dr-oracle Title: AskMed vs Dr.Oracle: Which AI Medical App Is Better? Compare · updated Nov 3, 2026 # AskMed vs Dr.Oracle AskMed and Dr.Oracle are both AI medical assistants that answer clinical questions with citations to guidelines and research. The Dr.Oracle App Store page lists students, residents, physicians, physician associates and nurse practitioners, and the Dr.Oracle website suggests studying with Dr.Oracle alongside your favorite Q-banks. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account. AskMed comes out ahead in three areas. First, AskMed has question banks built in for 10 licensing exams, including PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK and NEET-PG, each in the exam's own language, with timed mocks of 40 questions in 60 minutes. Second, AskMed is built for the whole care team, pharmacists and researchers included. Third, AskMed lets you choose which source types and study types each answer uses, and says so when no source supports an answer. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of Dr.Oracle on six features for clinicians and students, each checked on November 3, 2026 against the Dr.Oracle website and US App Store page. First, AskMed has built-in question banks for 10 licensing exams, while the Dr.Oracle site suggests using Dr.Oracle alongside other Q-banks. Second, AskMed offers timed mock exams of 40 questions in 60 minutes; Dr.Oracle's pages don't state timed mocks. Third, each AskMed bank is written in the language of its exam, which Dr.Oracle's pages don't state. Fourth, AskMed is built for doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists and researchers, while the Dr.Oracle App Store page lists students, residents, physicians, physician associates and nurse practitioners, without pharmacists or researchers. Fifth, AskMed's source filters let you choose source types and study types; Dr.Oracle's pages don't state filters. Sixth, AskMed says so when no usable source exists instead of guessing, a rule Dr.Oracle's pages don't state. ### Built-in exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams Dr.Oracle: Suggests using it alongside other Q-banks ### Timed mock exams Practice under exam conditions AskMed: 40 questions in 60 minutes Dr.Oracle: Not stated ### Exams in their own language Each bank in the language of its exam AskMed: ✓ Dr.Oracle: Not stated ### Built for the whole care team Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists and researchers AskMed: ✓ Dr.Oracle: Misses pharmacists and researchers ### Source filters Choose source types and study types AskMed: ✓ Dr.Oracle: Not stated ### No source, no answer Says so instead of guessing AskMed: ✓ Dr.Oracle: Not stated ## Pricing comparison Prices in US dollars, as each app lists them; Dr.Oracle prices from its US App Store page, checked November 3, 2026. AskMed Pro $24.99/month or $129.99/year - Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels - Research Mode, up to 20 papers - Source filters, PDF and image attachments - iPhone, iPad, Android and web Dr.Oracle $5.99 to $239.00 - In-app purchases on the US App Store: Monthly Subscription $24.99, Yearly Subscription $239.00, Dr.Oracle Pro Yearly $124.99, 3 Month plans $34.99 and $63.00, and smaller plans at $12.99 and $5.99 - Paid only, according to its App Store page ## Exam prep built in AskMed has exam question banks built in, while the Dr.Oracle website suggests studying with Dr.Oracle alongside your favorite Q-banks. AskMed's Exam Prep covers 10 licensing exams: PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Each bank is written in the language of its exam, so a candidate for a non-English exam practices in the language of the real paper. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and a timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, then go back to the bank. For a medical student, a resident or an international medical graduate, AskMed keeps exam practice and cited clinical answers in one account on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. ## Built for the whole care team AskMed is built for the whole care team, while the Dr.Oracle App Store page lists students, residents, physicians, physician associates and nurse practitioners, with no mention of pharmacists or researchers. AskMed is built for doctors in every specialty, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and medical researchers, and every one of those users works from the same cited evidence. A pharmacist checking an interaction gets an answer drawn from FDA and DailyMed drug labels and official registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk. A researcher planning a study can limit answers to systematic reviews and meta-analyses or to clinical trials, and attach a PDF of a paper to ask about the paper directly. A nurse checking a monitoring plan gets the same guideline sources as the doctor on the ward: NICE, WHO, CDC and groups such as ESC, KDIGO, GINA, GOLD, IDSA and ACOG. AskMed works worldwide without a US license or NPI. ## You choose the sources AskMed lets you choose the sources behind each answer, while the Dr.Oracle website and App Store page don't state any source filters. In AskMed you can turn four source types on or off: journals, clinical guidelines, drug labels and medical references. You can also choose which kinds of studies to use: systematic reviews and meta-analyses, review articles, clinical trials, or other studies. The filters help when you want only the guideline view for a protocol, only trial evidence for a new drug, or only drug labels for a safety question. With no filters set, AskMed ranks guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then review articles and references, then large trials and other studies, and prefers sources from the last 10 years. When guidance has changed, the AskMed answer says so, and every claim still links to the source's exact web address. ## No source, no answer If AskMed finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so and asks you to rephrase, instead of answering from memory; the Dr.Oracle website and App Store page don't state what Dr.Oracle does when no source is found. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources before writing: journals such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ, guideline bodies such as NICE, WHO and CDC, FDA and DailyMed drug labels, and references such as StatPearls, the MSD and Merck Manuals and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed doesn't search the open web, forums or social media. When AskMed does answer, every claim links to the source behind the claim, and answers draw on several sources rather than leaning on one. An answer written from memory is the hardest kind to check, because no citation exists to open, so the AskMed rule means every sentence has a source you can verify. ## Going deeper Beyond the six rows where AskMed comes out ahead of Dr.Oracle, AskMed can go deeper than a single answer. When a question needs a full write-up, AskMed's Deep Dive builds an evidence report from 20+ sources, the kind of summary a resident brings to a journal club or a team brings to a case discussion. Each Deep Dive report gets a second automated pass after writing, which corrects sentences that contradict their sources, the drug label or the current guideline, and adds missing safety facts such as contraindications, boxed warnings and interactions. The second pass is automated, not a human review, so every claim in the report still links to a published source. AskMed also lets you attach a PDF or an image to a question, such as a guideline excerpt, a paper or a figure, and ask about the file directly. AskMed cites your file only for what the file itself says; every other medical fact in the answer still needs a published source. ## How to choose an AI tool for clinical questions Choosing an AI tool for clinical questions takes more than checking for citations, because most AI medical assistants, Dr.Oracle and AskMed included, now cite guidelines and research. Five checks separate one tool from another. First, check whether the tool helps you study, with a built-in question bank, timed mocks and an explanation for every option. Second, check who the tool is built for, since pharmacists and researchers need the same evidence as doctors and nurses. Third, check whether you can choose the sources, such as guidelines only or trials only. Fourth, check what the tool does when no good source exists: an honest tool says so instead of answering from memory. Fifth, check whether the tool can go deeper than one answer for a journal club or a case discussion. AskMed meets all five with a stated feature: Exam Prep for 10 exams, a whole-care-team audience, source filters, a no-source-no-answer rule and Deep Dive reports. - Does it help you study? If you're preparing for a licensing exam, one app that answers clinical questions and has the exam's question bank saves you switching between tools. Check for timed mocks and an explanation for every option, not just the right one. - Who is it built for? Care is a team effort. A tool built for pharmacists and researchers as well as doctors and nurses lets the whole team work from the same evidence. - Can you choose the sources? Sometimes you want the guideline, sometimes the trials. A tool that lets you pick source types and study types gives you the answer from the evidence you trust most. - What happens when there's no good source? An honest tool says it couldn't find a source. A tool that always answers will sometimes answer from memory, and those are the answers that are hardest to check. - Can it go deeper than one answer? Some questions need a full write-up: a journal club, a gap in the guidelines, a patient who doesn't match the trial population. Look for a mode that writes up what the evidence shows. ## Bottom line For anyone preparing for a licensing exam, working alongside pharmacists and researchers, or wanting control over sources, AskMed is the stronger choice over Dr.Oracle. Both apps answer clinical questions with citations to guidelines and research. AskMed has question banks built in for 10 licensing exams, including PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, NEET-PG and ENARM, each in the exam's own language, with timed mocks of 40 questions in 60 minutes, while the Dr.Oracle site suggests pairing Dr.Oracle with other Q-banks. AskMed is built for doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers; the Dr.Oracle App Store page doesn't list pharmacists or researchers. AskMed lets you choose source types and study types, says so when no source supports an answer, and links every claim to the source's exact web address. AskMed runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account and works worldwide without a US license or NPI. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Where does AskMed come out ahead of Dr.Oracle? AskMed comes out ahead of Dr.Oracle with built-in question banks for 10 licensing exams with timed mocks, banks in each exam's own language, source filters, and a clear "no source, no answer" rule. AskMed is also built for the whole care team, from doctors and nurses to pharmacists and researchers. Q: Which is better for exam prep? AskMed. Its Exam Prep covers PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, with a timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes. Dr.Oracle's site suggests using it alongside other Q-banks. Q: How much does AskMed cost compared with Dr.Oracle? AskMed Pro is $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year. On the US App Store, Dr.Oracle's subscriptions include $24.99 a month and $239.00 a year, with other plans from $5.99 to $124.99. Q: Can pharmacists and researchers use AskMed? Yes. AskMed is built for doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. The Dr.Oracle App Store page lists students, residents, physicians, physician associates and nurse practitioners. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations, titration schedules, how often to take a drug or patient-specific prescribing instructions, and the rule holds for exam questions, hypothetical cases and requests to quote a drug label. AskMed also removes dose numbers from the source excerpts AskMed shows. A drug answer in AskMed still covers what the drug is used for, how the drug works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is chosen and adjusted for kidney or liver function, age, weight or interactions, monitoring, side effects and safety, with every claim linked to a source such as an FDA or DailyMed label. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. Whether you use AskMed or Dr.Oracle, check any drug amount against the current label or your local formulary before acting on the amount. AskMed is a reference for healthcare professionals and students, not a symptom checker, and isn't for emergencies. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | Dr.Oracle Built-in exam question banks PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Suggests using it alongside other Q-banks Timed mock exams Practice under exam conditions | 40 questions in 60 minutes | Not stated Exams in their own language Each bank in the language of its exam | ✓ | Not stated Built for the whole care team Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists and researchers | ✓ | Misses pharmacists and researchers Source filters Choose source types and study types | ✓ | Not stated No source, no answer Says so instead of guessing | ✓ | Not stated ## References - Dr.Oracle website, droracle.ai (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - Dr.Oracle AI Medical Assistant, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/askmed-vs-meddeep Title: AskMed vs MedDeep AI: Which AI Medical App Is Better? Compare · updated Nov 3, 2026 # AskMed vs MedDeep AskMed and MedDeep AI are both AI medical assistants that answer clinical questions with citations. MedDeep AI says MedDeep AI is "exclusively for licensed healthcare professionals" and is powered by OpenAI's GPT models. AskMed is an AI medical reference made by Loop Studio for healthcare professionals and students alike: doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account. Before AskMed writes, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, from PubMed and the Cochrane Library to NICE, WHO, CDC and FDA drug labels, and links every claim to the source behind the claim. AskMed comes out ahead of MedDeep AI on five points: AskMed welcomes medical students, uses official drug labels as a source, reads up to 20 papers in Research Mode, writes Deep Dive evidence reports with 20+ sources, and includes exam prep for 10 licensing exams, from PLAB and USMLE to NEET-PG. ## Where AskMed comes out ahead AskMed comes out ahead of MedDeep AI on six features for clinicians and students, each checked on November 3, 2026 against the MedDeep AI website and US App Store page. First, AskMed is built for healthcare professionals and students, while MedDeep AI says MedDeep AI is exclusively for licensed healthcare professionals, which leaves out medical students. Second, AskMed answers drug questions from official drug labels; MedDeep AI doesn't list drug labels as a source. Third, AskMed's Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question, and MedDeep AI's pages don't state a paper count. Fourth, AskMed's Deep Dive writes a full evidence report with 20+ sources, which MedDeep AI's pages don't state. Fifth, AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, including PLAB, USMLE and NEET-PG; MedDeep AI's pages don't state any exam prep. Sixth, if AskMed finds no usable source, AskMed says so instead of guessing, a rule MedDeep AI's pages don't state. ### Built for professionals and students Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists and researchers AskMed: ✓ MedDeep: Misses medical students ### Official drug labels as a source Drug facts from the prescribing label AskMed: ✓ MedDeep: Not stated ### Research Mode Reads up to 20 papers for one question AskMed: ✓ MedDeep: Not stated ### Full evidence reports A long report with 20+ sources AskMed: Deep Dive MedDeep: Not stated ### Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more AskMed: 10 licensing exams MedDeep: Not stated ### No source, no answer Says so instead of guessing AskMed: ✓ MedDeep: Not stated ## Pricing comparison Prices in US dollars, as each app lists them; MedDeep AI prices from its US App Store page, checked November 3, 2026. AskMed Pro $24.99/month or $129.99/year - Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels - Research Mode, up to 20 papers - Source filters, PDF and image attachments - iPhone, iPad, Android and web MedDeep AI Pro $18.99/month or $129.99/year - In-app purchases on the US App Store: Pro Monthly $18.99, 3 Month Pro Plan $39.99 and Pro Yearly $129.99 ## Students welcome AskMed welcomes medical students, while MedDeep AI says MedDeep AI is "exclusively for licensed healthcare professionals". AskMed is built for healthcare professionals and students alike: doctors in every specialty, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers. A student can start with AskMed in the first clinical year, use the same cited answers on the wards, practice for a licensing exam such as PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK or NEET-PG in Exam Prep, and keep the same account through residency and practice. Every answer links each claim to the journal, guideline or drug label behind the claim, so a student learns to check the source rather than trust a summary. AskMed works worldwide without a US license or NPI, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. AskMed is a reference for learning and practice, not a symptom checker. ## Drug facts from the label AskMed answers drug questions from official drug labels, while MedDeep AI describes MedDeep AI's answers as grounded in guidelines and peer-reviewed research and doesn't list drug labels as a source. The prescribing label is the document the regulator approved and the primary source for a medicine's indications, contraindications, boxed warnings, interactions and adverse reactions; summaries can lag behind a label update or leave out a warning. AskMed reads FDA labels and DailyMed, and for local brand names AskMed also checks official drug registries from many countries, such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk, so a brand name sold in Europe or the UK leads to the right label. Each drug claim in AskMed links to the label's exact web address, so a pharmacist checking an interaction or a nurse checking a side effect can open the label and confirm the wording. AskMed gives no doses; exact amounts come from the current label. ## Where answers come from AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources before AskMed writes an answer, while MedDeep AI says MedDeep AI is powered by OpenAI's GPT models. The AskMed list covers PubMed and PubMed Central, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ and 11 specialty journals; guideline bodies and agencies such as NICE, the US Preventive Services Task Force, WHO, CDC, ECDC and the National Cancer Institute, plus groups such as ESC, KDIGO, GINA, GOLD, IDSA and ACOG; FDA and DailyMed drug labels; and references such as StatPearls, the MSD and Merck Manuals and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed ranks guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, prefers sources from the last 10 years, and says so when guidance has changed. AskMed doesn't search the open web, forums or social media. If AskMed finds no usable source, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. ## Going deeper AskMed goes deeper than one answer in two ways, and the MedDeep AI website and App Store page don't state a paper count or a full evidence report. Research Mode reads up to 20 papers for one question before AskMed answers, which helps when the evidence sits in the literature rather than in a guideline: a gap in the guidelines, a patient who doesn't match the trial population, or a newer treatment with mixed results. Deep Dive writes a full evidence report from 20+ sources, the kind of summary a resident brings to a journal club or a team brings to a case discussion. Each Deep Dive report gets a second automated pass after writing, which corrects sentences that contradict their sources, the drug label or the current guideline, and adds missing safety facts such as contraindications, boxed warnings and interactions. The pass is automated, not a human review, so every claim still links to its source. ## Exam prep built in AskMed includes Exam Prep for 10 licensing exams, while the MedDeep AI website and App Store page don't state any exam prep. AskMed's question banks cover PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE. Each bank is written in the language of its exam, so a candidate for a non-English exam practices in the language of the real paper. Every question comes with an explanation for every option, not only the right one, and a timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes lets you practice under exam conditions. When a question raises something you don't know, you can ask AskMed in the same app and get an answer cited to journals, guidelines and drug labels. MedDeep AI says MedDeep AI is exclusively for licensed healthcare professionals, so students preparing for a licensing exam fall outside MedDeep AI's stated audience. ## How to choose an AI tool for clinical questions Choosing an AI tool for clinical questions takes more than checking for citations, because most AI medical assistants, MedDeep AI and AskMed included, now cite sources. Five checks separate one tool from another. First, check whether you can use the tool as a student and keep the tool through residency. Second, check where drug facts come from: the prescribing label is the document the regulator approved, and other sources summarize the label. Third, check whether the tool searches medical sources before writing, so every claim points to a study or guideline you can open. Fourth, check whether the tool can go deeper than one answer, with a mode that reads many papers and writes up the evidence. Fifth, check whether the tool helps you study for a licensing exam. AskMed meets all five with a stated feature: open to students, official drug labels, a fixed list of medical sources, Research Mode and Deep Dive, and Exam Prep for 10 exams. - Can you use it as a student? A tool you can start with in medical school and keep through residency means one set of habits and one app, instead of switching when you qualify. - Where do its drug facts come from? The prescribing label is the document the regulator approved. Summaries can lag behind a label update or leave out a warning. Ask whether the tool reads the label itself. - Does it search medical sources first? A general AI model answers from what it learned in training. A tool that searches medical sources before it writes can show you exactly where each claim comes from, including studies published since. - Can it go deeper than one answer? Some questions need the literature, not a paragraph: a journal club, a gap in the guidelines, a patient who doesn't match the trial population. Look for a mode that reads many papers and writes up what they show. - Does it help you study? If you're preparing for a licensing exam, one app that answers clinical questions and drills exam questions saves you switching between tools. ## Bottom line For medical students, and for anyone who wants drug facts from the label, deeper research and exam prep in one app, AskMed is the stronger choice over MedDeep AI. Both apps help with clinical questions and cite sources. AskMed is built for doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, pharmacists and researchers, while MedDeep AI says MedDeep AI is exclusively for licensed healthcare professionals. AskMed answers drug questions from FDA and DailyMed labels and official registries such as the EMA; MedDeep AI doesn't list drug labels as a source. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NICE and WHO, and says so when no source exists. AskMed's Research Mode reads up to 20 papers, Deep Dive writes evidence reports with 20+ sources, and Exam Prep covers 10 licensing exams, from PLAB and USMLE to NEET-PG. AskMed runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web with one account. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Can medical students use AskMed? Yes. AskMed is built for healthcare professionals and students. MedDeep AI says it is exclusively for licensed healthcare professionals. Q: Where does AskMed come out ahead of MedDeep AI? AskMed comes out ahead of MedDeep AI with official drug labels as a source, Research Mode with up to 20 papers, Deep Dive evidence reports with 20+ sources, exam prep for 10 licensing exams, and a clear "no source, no answer" rule. Q: How much does AskMed cost compared with MedDeep AI? AskMed Pro is $24.99 a month or $129.99 a year. On the US App Store, MedDeep AI Pro is $18.99 a month, $39.99 for 3 months or $129.99 a year. Q: Which is better for exam prep? AskMed. Its Exam Prep covers PLAB, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLE, EDN, UKOMNAS, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, with a timed mock of 40 questions in 60 minutes. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations, titration schedules, how often to take a drug or patient-specific prescribing instructions, and the rule holds for exam questions, hypothetical cases and requests to quote a drug label. AskMed also removes dose numbers from the source excerpts AskMed shows. A drug answer in AskMed still covers what the drug is used for, how the drug works, first-line and alternative options, how dosing is chosen and adjusted for kidney or liver function, age, weight or interactions, monitoring, side effects and safety, with every claim linked to a source such as an FDA or DailyMed label. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. Whether you use AskMed or MedDeep AI, check any drug amount against the current label or your local formulary before acting on the amount. AskMed is a reference for healthcare professionals and students, not a symptom checker, and isn't for emergencies. ## Full comparison Feature | AskMed | MedDeep Built for professionals and students Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists and researchers | ✓ | Misses medical students Official drug labels as a source Drug facts from the prescribing label | ✓ | Not stated Research Mode Reads up to 20 papers for one question | ✓ | Not stated Full evidence reports A long report with 20+ sources | Deep Dive | Not stated Exam prep PLAB, USMLE, NEET-PG and 7 more | 10 licensing exams | Not stated No source, no answer Says so instead of guessing | ✓ | Not stated ## References - MedDeep AI website, meddeep.ai (accessed Nov 3, 2026) - MedDeep AI Medical Assistant, Apple App Store listing, US (accessed Nov 3, 2026) --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-pediatrics Title: Best AI for Pediatrics Questions | AskMed # Best AI for Pediatrics: Cited Answers on Children and Newborns Our pick first, then the other tools pediatricians, pediatric residents, neonatal and children's nurses, pharmacists and students weigh for questions on fever in young infants, bronchiolitis, newborn jaundice, the Apgar score, milestones and vaccine schedules. Updated 11 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for pediatrics questions. It answers from AAP guidelines, NICE, CDC, WHO, major journals and drug labels, links every claim to its source, and works for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers worldwide. Answers from | Journals, clinical guidelines, drug labels and clinical references Sources for children | AAP's journal Pediatrics, NICE, CDC, WHO, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ, PubMed, PubMed Central and the Cochrane Library Citations | A link after every claim; 8 sources per answer by default, 3–12 if you change it Guidelines | The year of each recommendation, and what changed when guidance was updated Units | Both unit systems where countries differ, such as bilirubin in mg/dL and µmol/L No source found | Says so, never answers from memory Lab reports | Text from an attached PDF or photo is read; X-rays and other images are not interpreted Doses | Never, weight-based doses included; how dosing is chosen is explained without numbers Built for | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students, researchers Where | Worldwide, no US license or NPI needed Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## Which AI tools answer pediatrics questions? This guide compares the AI tools that pediatricians, pediatric residents, neonatal and children's nurses, pharmacists and students weigh for questions about babies and children, and each tool does a different job. AskMed is an AI medical reference that answers questions on infant fever, bronchiolitis, newborn jaundice, development and immunization from journals, guidelines and drug labels, with a link after every claim, for anyone in medicine in any country. OpenEvidence is a clinical AI search engine for verified healthcare professionals; its App Store listing says an NPI is required and names the American Academy of Pediatrics among its content agreements. UpToDate Expert AI is the AI companion to the UpToDate clinical reference and needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. ChatGPT is OpenAI's general chatbot. AI scribes, note-taking tools and software that analyzes images are different categories and are left out. The table shows what each tool is, where its answers come from and who can use it. Tool | Type | Answers from | Who can use it AskMed | AI medical reference | AAP guidelines in Pediatrics, NICE, CDC, WHO, major journals, PubMed, drug labels and references, with a link after every claim | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, worldwide; no NPI OpenEvidence | Clinical AI search | Peer-reviewed literature; partners include NEJM and JAMA; content agreements include the AAP | Verified healthcare professionals; NPI required, per its App Store listing; not available in the UK, EU or EEA, per its Terms UpToDate Expert AI | AI companion to UpToDate | UpToDate content | Holders of an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Not limited to medical sources | Anyone ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence's App Store subtitle calls it a clinical decision support and medical search engine for healthcare professionals. Its US App Store listing names NEJM, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, NCCN, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley as official AI partners, and lists content agreements and collaborations with medical societies, among them the American Academy of Pediatrics. The listing marks an NPI as required, says users must verify their healthcare professional status, and says the app contains advertising. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, so pediatric teams there need another tool. AskMed vs OpenEvidence compares the two in detail. ### UpToDate Expert AI UpToDate Expert AI is an AI-powered companion to the UpToDate clinical reference. Its App Store listing says it gives evidence-based responses grounded in UpToDate content, and that access requires an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled, through an enterprise account or a personal subscription. It suits clinicians whose hospital already uses UpToDate. AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI compares the two side by side. ### ChatGPT ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot, on the web, iPhone and Android. It helps to talk through neonatal physiology or draft a teaching handout, but it is not limited to medical sources, so check any clinical claim against the guideline first. OpenAI also runs ChatGPT for Clinicians, which its help center opens to verified US clinicians with an NPI and a license check. Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? covers what studies found. ### AAP, NICE, CDC and WHO resources without AI chat Many pediatric clinicians keep the guideline itself open next to their AI tool. The American Academy of Pediatrics publishes its clinical practice guidelines in the journal Pediatrics. In the UK, NICE publishes NG143 on fever in under 5s (November 2019, last updated November 2021), NG9 on bronchiolitis (June 2015, last updated August 2021) and CG98 on jaundice in newborn babies under 28 days (May 2010, last updated October 2023). CDC's developmental milestone checklists run from 2 months to 5 years, and WHO keeps summary tables of its routine immunization recommendations. These are where an AI answer should lead you. ## How does AskMed answer a pediatrics question? AskMed answers a pediatrics question in four steps, and you can check each one. First, AskMed rewrites the question as a precise medical search query, and for management questions it adds "latest guideline update" so the newest guidance is found. Second, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, never the open web or forums; for children, that list includes publications.aap.org, where the AAP journal Pediatrics and its guidelines appear, NICE, CDC, WHO, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ, PubMed, PubMed Central and the Cochrane Library, plus FDA and DailyMed drug labels. Third, AskMed ranks what it found: guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then reviews and references, then large trials, preferring work from the last 10 years. Fourth, an AI language model writes the answer with a link after every claim, gives the year of each guideline recommendation and says so when sources disagree. If no usable source turns up, AskMed says that instead of answering from memory. Pediatric journals that are not on that list by name, such as The Journal of Pediatrics, reach AskMed as PubMed abstracts or as full text on PubMed Central. AskMed is told to give both units when countries report a measurement differently, as they do for bilirubin (mg/dL or µmol/L). For evidence questions such as "Does a long-acting RSV antibody reduce hospital admissions in healthy term infants?", Research Mode reads the most relevant source in full before it writes the answer. How AskMed answers lists every source. ## Can AI help assess a febrile infant? AI can help assess a febrile infant by naming the age band, the tests and the decision points in the guideline that applies, with a citation for each step, but it cannot see whether the baby looks well, where every pathway starts. The American Academy of Pediatrics 2021 guideline on well-appearing febrile infants 8 to 60 days old, published in Pediatrics, covers term infants with a temperature of 38.0°C or higher. It sets out 21 key action statements in three algorithms, for infants 8 to 21 days, 22 to 28 days and 29 to 60 days of age, so ill-appearing babies and the first week of life fall outside it. In the UK, NICE guideline NG143 on fever in under 5s uses a traffic light table of symptoms and signs, and says that children younger than 3 months with a temperature of 38°C or higher are in a high-risk group for serious illness. AskMed searches both publishers, so an answer names the guideline it follows. The age bands of the three algorithms in the AAP 2021 guideline for well-appearing term infants 8 to 60 days old with a temperature of 38.0°C or higher (Pantell 2021, Pediatrics). - Which algorithm? Give the age in days, the gestational age, how and where the temperature was taken, and the results you have, then ask which steps the AAP algorithm for that age band lists and how strong each recommendation is. - Which tests? Ask which urine, blood and inflammatory marker results the guideline uses for infants 22 to 60 days and what it does with an abnormal one; each step comes back with its citation. - Older children. NICE NG143 says not to use the height of body temperature alone to identify serious illness in children older than 6 months. Ask which traffic light features your findings match. - Antimicrobials. The AAP guideline gives numbers needed to treat. AskMed names the drug classes the guideline discusses and never the dose. ## Can AI help manage bronchiolitis? AI can help manage bronchiolitis by checking a plan against the guidelines, which mostly say what not to do, and by citing the exact recommendation behind each step. The American Academy of Pediatrics 2014 bronchiolitis guideline covers children from 1 through 23 months of age. It says clinicians should diagnose bronchiolitis and assess severity from the history and examination, should not obtain radiographs or laboratory tests routinely, and should not give albuterol (salbutamol), epinephrine or systemic corticosteroids; antibacterial drugs are for a coexisting bacterial infection or a strong suspicion of one. It says clinicians may choose not to give supplemental oxygen when the oxyhemoglobin saturation exceeds 90%. NICE NG9, last updated in August 2021, advises against a routine chest X-ray and recommends oxygen when saturation stays below 90% from 6 weeks of age, or below 92% under 6 weeks or with an underlying health condition. AskMed gives the year of each. - Who is at risk? The AAP guideline names age under 12 weeks, a history of prematurity, underlying cardiopulmonary disease and immunodeficiency as risk factors for severe disease. Ask how each one changes the plan. - Hypertonic saline. The two guidelines differ: the AAP says not to give nebulized hypertonic saline in the emergency department but allows it, as a weak recommendation, for infants in hospital, while NICE lists hypertonic saline among treatments not to use. - The NICE "do not use" list. Antibiotics, hypertonic saline, nebulised adrenaline, salbutamol, montelukast, ipratropium bromide, and systemic or inhaled corticosteroids. - Feeding. The AAP says to give nasogastric or intravenous fluids to infants who cannot keep up hydration by mouth. - Prevention. The 2014 guideline predates the RSV immunizations licensed since 2023, so ask for the current recommendation and its date. Best AI for pulmonology covers lung questions in adults. ## Can AI help with newborn jaundice and the Apgar score? AI can help with newborn questions such as jaundice and the Apgar score by finding the right threshold chart or scoring rule and explaining it, but bilirubin decisions rest on hour-specific charts that you should read in the guideline itself. The American Academy of Pediatrics 2022 hyperbilirubinemia guideline revision covers newborn infants of 35 or more weeks of gestation and sets phototherapy thresholds by gestational age, the baby's age in hours and any hyperbilirubinemia neurotoxicity risk factors. The AAP's own FAQ notes that the 2022 revision removed the 2004 guideline's listing of Black race as protective against significant jaundice. In the UK, NICE CG98, last updated in October 2023, says to measure and record the serum bilirubin urgently, within 2 hours, in every baby with suspected or obvious jaundice in the first 24 hours of life, and to interpret each level by the baby's postnatal age in hours. AskMed gives bilirubin in mg/dL and µmol/L. - Which chart? Give the gestational age, the age in hours, the bilirubin with its unit and any risk factors, and ask which AAP figure or NICE threshold applies. Then open the chart and check the number yourself. - How to measure. NICE CG98 says not to use an icterometer to measure bilirubin levels in babies. - The Apgar score. The Apgar score calculator adds heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability and color, 0 to 2 points each. The AAP and ACOG statement on the Apgar score calls a 5-minute score of 7 to 10 reassuring, 4 to 6 moderately abnormal and 0 to 3 low. - 1 and 5 minutes. The guide to the Apgar score at 1 and 5 minutes works through three babies and explains why a score below 7 at 5 minutes is repeated every 5 minutes up to 20 minutes. - Pregnancy and birth. Best AI for OB/GYN covers questions before and during delivery. ## Can AI answer milestone and vaccine schedule questions? AI can answer developmental milestone and vaccine schedule questions well when it names the checklist or schedule it quotes and its date, because both changed recently. CDC's Learn the Signs. Act Early. checklists were revised in 2022 by a working group convened by the American Academy of Pediatrics, whose paper in Pediatrics explains that each milestone is one that most children, 75% or more, would be expected to reach by that visit age. The revision added checklists for 15 and 30 months, and of the milestones moved to a different age, 67.7% moved older. For immunization, the United States now has two schedules: the AAP released its own 2026 childhood and adolescent schedule on 26 January 2026, recommending routine immunization against 18 diseases, and says recent changes to the CDC schedule depart from longstanding medical evidence. WHO publishes summary tables of its routine recommendations. An answer should say which one it used. - Milestones. Ask "By what age do most children say two words together?" and AskMed answers from the CDC checklist and the 2022 paper with a citation. The paper's authors wrote the revision to discourage a wait-and-see approach. - Which schedule? Say which country and which body you follow, AAP, CDC or a national program, and ask the answer to name the schedule's date. WHO's tables are as of December 2025 and include one for interrupted or delayed vaccination. - Vaccine questions from parents. Ask for the evidence on a specific concern and its source, to explain it in your own words; AskMed is not built for parents to use themselves. ## Can AI give pediatric drug doses? AI tools differ most on pediatric doses, and AskMed never gives them, weight-based doses for children included. Weight-based dosing is one of the commonest questions in pediatrics and one where an error matters a great deal, so AskMed answers the rest of the question instead: what the drug is used for in children, how it works, the first-line and alternative options, how dosing is chosen and adjusted for weight, age, and kidney or liver function in general terms, what to monitor, side effects and safety. AskMed then ends with one short sentence on where exact dosing comes from. Dose numbers are also removed from the source excerpts AskMed shows and rewritten in general words, such as "a weight-based amount", while lab values stay as they are. Device settings are not doses, so tube and airway sizes are given with their numbers when the sources state them. Exact pediatric doses come from the current drug label, your local pediatric formulary and the treating clinician. - Where the dose lives. US drug labels on FDA and DailyMed have a Dosage and Administration section and a Pediatric Use section; in the UK, the BNF for Children covers medicines for children. Open the current one before you prescribe or give a drug. - What to ask instead. "Is this drug licensed for children of this age?", "Which formulation suits a toddler?" or "What should be monitored?" all get a cited answer. - Pharmacists. Best AI for pharmacists covers drug information tools. ## What should pediatric residents, nurses, pharmacists and students look for in an AI? Pediatric residents, nurses, pharmacists and students need an AI tool whose answers can be checked in seconds and that names the guideline and year it quotes. Four checks matter. First, citations: each claim should link to the guideline, trial or drug label behind it, not to a reading list at the end. Second, the edition and the country: the AAP and NICE often agree on bronchiolitis and differ on details, and in 2026 the AAP and CDC publish different US vaccine schedules, so an answer should say whose guidance it gives. Third, units and doses: AskMed gives bilirubin in both units where countries differ, and explains how pediatric dosing is chosen without giving numbers. Fourth, access: OpenEvidence's App Store listing says an NPI is required and its Terms exclude the UK, EU and EEA, and UpToDate Expert AI needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. AskMed needs no NPI or license, works in any country and carries no pharma advertising. - Residents. Research Mode for journal club, and "what changed in the 2022 jaundice guideline?" questions on rounds. - Neonatal and children's nurses. What to observe in bronchiolitis, what a bilirubin result means for the next check, and how the Apgar score is scored, with sources. - Emergency questions. Rules derived in adults do not always hold in children; the guide to the Ottawa ankle rules in children covers the age from which the pediatric evidence supports them. Best AI for emergency medicine covers the wider field. - Students. Paste an exam-style pediatrics question with its options: the first sentence names the correct option and the answer explains why each other option is wrong. ## What are the limits of AI for pediatrics? The main limit of AI for pediatrics is that an answer is only as good as its sources and the details it was given, and a child's age in days or hours, weight and gestational age change what applies. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, so guidance published elsewhere, such as a national immunization handbook outside that list, may reach AskMed only through a PubMed abstract or not at all, and every AskMed answer is written by an AI language model that can misread a source; no person reviews it first. Open the citation behind any sentence you act on and check that it covers the same patients, since evidence in term infants does not answer a question about a preterm baby in neonatal intensive care. AskMed reads text, not X-rays, photos of a rash or growth charts as images, and it gives no doses. AskMed is for education and reference by healthcare professionals and students, not for emergencies or for parents' self-diagnosis. - Check the source. Every AskMed claim has its own link, so you check one sentence against one page. - Check the age. Febrile infant pathways change at 21, 28 and 60 days, and jaundice charts at each hour of life; a wrong age gives a wrong answer, whoever reads the chart. - Report what looks wrong. Tap the thumbs down under an AskMed answer and pick a reason, such as Inaccurate or Sources don't match. Best AI for nurses covers tools for nursing questions, and best AI for medical students covers study tools. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for pediatrics? AskMed is the best AI for pediatrics questions when you need an answer you can check. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, including the AAP journal Pediatrics, NICE, CDC, WHO, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ, PubMed and the Cochrane Library, then writes an answer with a link after every claim and the year of each guideline recommendation. If it finds no usable source, it says so instead of answering from memory, and it never gives doses. AskMed is built for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, works worldwide without an NPI, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. OpenEvidence serves verified healthcare professionals with an NPI, and UpToDate Expert AI answers from UpToDate content. Q: Does AskMed use AAP guidelines? Yes. AskMed searches publications.aap.org, where the AAP journal Pediatrics publishes the Academy's clinical practice guidelines, such as the 2021 febrile infant guideline and the 2022 hyperbilirubinemia revision, so an answer can cite them and give the year of each recommendation. It also searches NICE, CDC and WHO. Q: Can AskMed calculate a pediatric dose by weight? No. AskMed never gives doses, weight-based doses for children included. It explains what the drug is for, how dosing is chosen and adjusted, and what to monitor, and points to the current drug label, your pediatric formulary and the treating clinician for the exact dose. Q: Which vaccine schedule does AskMed follow? AskMed answers from the source it finds and names it. In 2026 the AAP and CDC publish different US childhood schedules, and WHO publishes its own routine recommendations, so say which country and schedule you follow and check the date in the answer. Q: Can AskMed read a chest X-ray or a rash photo? No. AskMed reads attached images for their printed text only, so it cannot interpret an X-ray, a skin photo or a growth chart drawn as an image. Paste the report text or the measurements, and AskMed gives a cited explanation and next steps. Q: Is AskMed only for pediatricians? No. AskMed is built for doctors in any specialty, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-endocrinology Title: Best AI for Endocrinology Questions | AskMed # Best AI for Endocrinology: Cited Answers on Diabetes and Hormones Our pick first, then the other tools endocrinologists, diabetes nurses, pharmacists, residents and students weigh for questions on diabetes and GLP-1 drugs, thyroid nodules, adrenal incidentalomas and insulin resistance. Updated 10 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for endocrinology questions. It answers from the ADA Standards of Care, journals, guidelines and drug labels, links every claim to its source, and works for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers worldwide. Answers from | Journals, clinical guidelines, drug labels and clinical references Sources for hormones | The American Diabetes Association's journals, including Diabetes Care, plus NICE, KDIGO, the ESC, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, PubMed, PubMed Central and the Cochrane Library Citations | A link after every claim; 8 sources per answer by default, 3–12 if you change it Lab units | HbA1c in % and mmol/mol, glucose in mg/dL and mmol/L Guidelines | The year of each recommendation, and what changed when guidance was updated No source found | Says so, never answers from memory Ultrasound and CT | Images are not interpreted; printed report text is read Doses | Never, including insulin and GLP-1 receptor agonists Built for | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students, researchers Where | Worldwide, no US license or NPI needed Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## Which AI tools answer endocrinology questions? This guide compares the AI tools that endocrinologists, diabetes nurses, pharmacists, residents and students weigh for questions on diabetes, GLP-1 receptor agonists, the thyroid, the adrenal glands and insulin resistance, and each tool does a different job. AskMed is an AI medical reference that answers from journals, clinical guidelines and drug labels, including the American Diabetes Association's journals, with a link after every claim, for anyone in medicine in any country. OpenEvidence is a clinical AI search engine for verified healthcare professionals; its App Store listing says an NPI is required and names the American Diabetes Association among its content agreements. UpToDate Expert AI is the AI companion to the UpToDate clinical reference and needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. ChatGPT is OpenAI's general chatbot. AI scribes, glucose-monitor apps and software that reads ultrasound images are different categories and are left out. The table shows what each tool is, where its answers come from and who can use it. Tool | Type | Answers from | Who can use it AskMed | AI medical reference | ADA journals and other journals, guidelines, drug labels and references, with a link after every claim | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, worldwide; no NPI OpenEvidence | Clinical AI search | Peer-reviewed literature; partners include NEJM and JAMA; content agreements include the ADA | Verified healthcare professionals; NPI required, per its App Store listing; not available in the UK, EU or EEA, per its Terms UpToDate Expert AI | AI companion to UpToDate | UpToDate content, with answers linked to supporting sources | Holders of an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Not limited to medical sources | Anyone ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence describes itself as a clinical decision support platform and medical search engine. Its US App Store listing names NEJM, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, NCCN, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley as official AI partners, and lists content agreements and collaborations with medical societies, the American Diabetes Association among them. The listing marks an NPI as required, says users must verify their healthcare professional status, and shows that the app contains advertising. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, so diabetes and endocrine teams there need another tool. AskMed vs OpenEvidence compares the two in detail. ### UpToDate Expert AI UpToDate Expert AI is an AI-powered companion to the UpToDate clinical reference. Its App Store listing says answers are grounded in UpToDate content and can be traced to supporting sources, and that access needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled, through an enterprise account or a personal subscription. It suits clinicians whose hospital already uses UpToDate. AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI compares the two side by side. ### ChatGPT ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot, on the web, iPhone and Android. It helps to talk a feedback loop through, such as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, but it is not limited to medical sources, so check any clinical claim against the guideline first. OpenAI also runs ChatGPT for Clinicians, which its help center opens to clinicians in the United States who verify with an NPI and a license check. Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? covers what studies found. ### The guidelines themselves Many endocrine clinicians keep the guideline open next to their AI tool. The American Diabetes Association publishes its Standards of Care in Diabetes each year as a supplement to Diabetes Care and says the online version is kept current through a "living" Standards process. The American Thyroid Association lists its guidelines on thyroid.org, and the Endocrine Society and the European Society of Endocrinology publish theirs in their own journals. These are for reading the guideline itself, which is also where an AI answer should lead you. ## How does AskMed answer an endocrinology question? AskMed answers an endocrinology question in four steps that you can check. First, AskMed rewrites the question as a precise medical search query, and for management questions it adds "latest guideline update" so the newest guidance is found. Second, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, never the open web or forums; for diabetes and hormones, that list includes the American Diabetes Association's journals, where the Standards of Care appear in Diabetes Care, plus NICE, KDIGO, the European Society of Cardiology, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, PubMed, PubMed Central and the Cochrane Library, and FDA and DailyMed drug labels. Third, AskMed ranks what it found: guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then reviews and references, then large trials. Fourth, an AI language model writes the answer with a link after every claim, gives the year of each guideline recommendation, and states HbA1c in both % and mmol/mol and glucose in both mg/dL and mmol/L. If no usable source turns up, AskMed says so. Endocrine society guidelines reach AskMed in different ways. The 2015 American Thyroid Association guideline on thyroid nodules is in full on PubMed Central, while the 2023 European Society of Endocrinology guideline on adrenal incidentalomas and the 2025 Endocrine Society guideline on primary aldosteronism appear on PubMed. For evidence questions such as "Do GLP-1 receptor agonists reduce kidney outcomes in type 2 diabetes?", Research Mode reads the most relevant source in full before it writes the answer. How AskMed answers lists every source. ## Can AI answer ADA Standards of Care questions on diabetes and GLP-1 drugs? AI can answer ADA Standards of Care questions when it searches the Standards themselves and names the edition, and AskMed searches diabetesjournals.org, where the American Diabetes Association publishes them in Diabetes Care. The current edition is the Standards of Care in Diabetes—2026, released on 8 December 2025 as Supplement 1 of Diabetes Care volume 49, and the ADA says the online version is kept current through its "living" Standards process. Section 2 covers diagnosis, Section 9 pharmacologic approaches to glycemic treatment, and Section 10 cardiovascular disease and risk management, which calls SGLT inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists with demonstrated cardiovascular and kidney benefit a fundamental element of risk reduction in type 2 diabetes. The ADA's list of 2026 updates includes obesity treatment in type 1 diabetes, glucose-lowering therapy in chronic kidney disease including dialysis, and revised blood pressure goals. AskMed explains each drug class, how it is chosen and what to monitor, but never gives insulin or GLP-1 receptor agonist doses or titration schedules. - Diagnosis. Give the results and ask whether they meet the criteria in Section 2. The thresholds are an HbA1c of 6.5% (48 mmol/mol), a fasting plasma glucose of 126 mg/dL (7.0 mmol/L) or a 2-hour glucose of 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L) on an oral glucose tolerance test, and AskMed gives both units. - Choosing a drug class. Ask "Which glucose-lowering classes does the ADA favor in type 2 diabetes with heart failure or chronic kidney disease, and on what evidence?" The sources to open are Section 9 and Section 10. - GLP-1 receptor agonists. Mechanism, gastrointestinal side effects, what the US labels on FDA and DailyMed list as contraindications and warnings, and how the class compares with SGLT2 inhibitors, all without doses. - Pharmacists. Interactions between named diabetes drugs and the rest of a medication list, with the label linked; amounts and schedules come from the label and the prescriber. ## Can AI help with a thyroid nodule work-up? AI can help with a thyroid nodule work-up by setting the ultrasound pattern, nodule size and TSH result against the guideline that applies, with a link to each rule, but it cannot look at the ultrasound image itself. The American Thyroid Association's guideline page still lists the 2015 ATA guideline, published in Thyroid in 2016, for adult thyroid nodules; the newer 2025 ATA guideline covers differentiated thyroid cancer only, from diagnosis onward. The 2015 guideline recommends measuring serum TSH first and doing a radionuclide scan only if TSH is subnormal, then fine-needle aspiration by sonographic pattern and size: from 1 cm for high and intermediate suspicion, from 1.5 cm for low suspicion, and as an option from 2 cm for very low suspicion, never for purely cystic nodules. Many radiology reports use the American College of Radiology's TI-RADS from 2017 instead, and cytology comes back in the six categories of the 2023 Bethesda System. System and category | Fine-needle aspiration from | Ultrasound follow-up from ATA 2015, high or intermediate suspicion | 1 cm | Not part of this rule ATA 2015, low suspicion | 1.5 cm | Not part of this rule ATA 2015, very low suspicion | May be considered from 2 cm; observation is also reasonable | Not part of this rule ATA 2015, purely cystic | Not required | Not part of this rule ACR TI-RADS TR5 (7 points or more) | 1.0 cm | 0.5 cm ACR TI-RADS TR4 (4–6 points) | 1.5 cm | 1.0 cm ACR TI-RADS TR3 (3 points) | 2.5 cm | 1.5 cm ACR TI-RADS TR1 and TR2 | No FNA | No follow-up - Paste the report, not the picture. Give the ultrasound report's wording and ask which ATA pattern and TI-RADS level it fits and whether FNA is advised. The 2015 ATA guideline and the ACR TI-RADS white paper are the sources to open. - Cytology. Ask what a category means and what comes next: the 2023 Bethesda System names six categories, from nondiagnostic to malignant, each with an implied risk of malignancy, and splits atypia of undetermined significance into two subgroups. - Thyroid cancer. The 2025 ATA guideline covers staging and risk assessment, initial treatment decisions, response assessment and monitoring for differentiated thyroid cancer. ## Can AI help work up an adrenal incidentaloma? AI can help work up an adrenal incidentaloma by laying out the two questions every guideline asks, whether the mass could be malignant and whether it makes too much hormone, with the source for each step. The current European guideline is the 2023 European Society of Endocrinology guideline, written with the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumors and published in the European Journal of Endocrinology. It says every adrenal mass needs dedicated adrenal imaging, and that a homogeneous lesion of 10 Hounsfield units or less on unenhanced CT is benign and needs no further imaging, whatever its size. Every patient also needs plasma or urinary metanephrines and an overnight dexamethasone suppression test read against a cortisol cut-off of 50 nmol/L (1.8 µg/dL); a higher value in someone without overt Cushing's syndrome is what the guideline calls mild autonomous cortisol secretion. AskMed gives such lab cut-offs in both units, while the test's drug amount comes from the local protocol. - Unenhanced CT. Homogeneous and 10 HU or less: benign, no further imaging, whatever the size. Otherwise, discuss in a multidisciplinary meeting. - Malignancy risk. Over 4 cm and either inhomogeneous or over 20 HU: surgery is usually the management of choice. - Hormone work-up for everyone. Plasma or urinary metanephrines, and an overnight dexamethasone suppression test with a cortisol cut-off of 50 nmol/L (1.8 µg/dL). - Cortisol above the cut-off. Mild autonomous cortisol secretion: screen for hypertension and type 2 diabetes, and consider surgery case by case when relevant comorbidities are present. - Hypertension. The 2025 Endocrine Society guideline suggests screening everyone with hypertension for primary aldosteronism with aldosterone and renin. A simplified outline of the 2023 ESE/ENSAT adrenal incidentaloma guideline, with the 2025 Endocrine Society suggestion on primary aldosteronism. Each guideline gives its own exceptions. The ESE/ENSAT guideline adds that surgery is not usually indicated for an asymptomatic, nonfunctioning unilateral mass with obviously benign imaging. The Endocrine Society's 2025 primary aldosteronism guideline rates its screening suggestion as conditional and also suggests a dexamethasone suppression test in everyone with primary aldosteronism and an adrenal adenoma. Ask AskMed how the two guidelines fit together for a given patient, and open both. ## How can AI help measure insulin resistance? AI can help measure insulin resistance by explaining which method fits the question and what its number means, since no fasting index has a universal cut-off. The reference method is the hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp, described by DeFronzo and colleagues in 1979: insulin is held high and glucose held at its basal level, so the glucose infusion rate measures how sensitive the tissues are to insulin. The clamp is too laborious for clinics, so fasting indexes stand in for it. HOMA-IR, from Matthews and colleagues in 1985, multiplies fasting insulin by fasting glucose and divides by 22.5, with glucose in mmol/L. QUICKI, from Katz and colleagues in 2000, is 1 divided by the sum of the logarithms of fasting insulin and glucose, and correlated with clamp results at r = 0.78. The TyG index, tested in 748 adults in 2008, uses fasting triglycerides and glucose instead of insulin, for laboratories without an insulin assay. Measure | What it needs | Source | What to know Euglycemic clamp | Insulin and glucose infusions, frequent sampling | DeFronzo 1979 | The reference method; a research test HOMA-IR | One fasting insulin and glucose | Matthews 1985 | 1.0 is the model's reference for young, normal-weight adults; correlation 0.88 with the clamp in the 1985 paper QUICKI | One fasting insulin and glucose | Katz 2000 | r = 0.78 with the clamp; an index of insulin sensitivity rather than resistance TyG index | Fasting triglycerides and glucose | Simental-Mendía 2008 | No insulin assay needed; best cut-off ln 4.65, with 84% sensitivity and 45% specificity against HOMA-IR - Work out HOMA-IR. The HOMA-IR calculator on getaskmed.com takes glucose in mg/dL or mmol/L and insulin in µU/mL or pmol/L, shows HOMA-%B too, and links the 1985 paper. - Read the number. HOMA-IR normal range explains why published cut-offs run from 1.85 to 3.80 in adult studies, depending on population, assay and method. - Know the limits. Wallace, Levy and Matthews, from the same Oxford group, wrote in 2004 on the use and abuse of HOMA modelling, including why one fasting sample is imprecise in one person. Ask AskMed which index a study used before you compare its numbers with yours. ## What should endocrinology fellows, diabetes nurses, pharmacists and students look for in an AI? Endocrinology fellows, diabetes nurses and educators, pharmacists, residents and students need an AI tool whose answers can be checked in seconds and that names the guideline edition it quotes. Four checks matter. First, citations: each claim should link to the guideline, trial or drug label behind it, not to a reading list at the end. Second, the edition: the ADA updates its Standards of Care every year and online in between, while the ATA's nodule guideline dates from 2015, so an answer should give the year and say what changed. Third, units: HbA1c and glucose are reported differently between countries, and AskMed checks its own draft so that both units are given. Fourth, access: OpenEvidence's App Store listing says an NPI is required and its Terms exclude the UK, EU and EEA, and UpToDate Expert AI needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. AskMed needs no NPI or license, works in any country and carries no pharma advertising, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. - Fellows and residents. Research Mode for journal club and for "what changed in this year's Standards of Care?" questions on rounds. - Diabetes nurses and educators. Recognizing hypoglycemia, what to monitor on insulin or a GLP-1 receptor agonist and how drug classes differ, with sources and without doses. - Students. Paste an exam-style question with its options: the first sentence names the correct option and the answer explains why each other option is wrong. - Pharmacists and researchers. Drug label warnings, interactions between named drugs and where trial evidence agrees or conflicts. Best AI for pharmacists covers drug information tools. ## What are the limits of AI in endocrinology? The main limit of AI in endocrinology is that an answer can only be as good as its sources and the question it was given, and endocrine guidance changes at different speeds, yearly for the ADA Standards of Care but less often for thyroid and adrenal guidelines. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, so an Endocrine Society or European Society of Endocrinology guideline may reach AskMed only as a PubMed abstract, and every AskMed answer is written by an AI language model that can misread a source; no person reviews it before you see it. Open the citation behind any sentence you act on and check it covers the same patients: evidence in type 2 diabetes does not answer a question about type 1. AskMed reads text, not ultrasound or CT images, and gives no doses; take those from the current label. AskMed is for education and reference by healthcare professionals and students, not for emergencies or for patients' self-diagnosis. - Check the source. Every AskMed claim has its own link, so you check one sentence against one page. - Check the edition. A current guideline outweighs an older review, and AskMed gives the year of each recommendation. - Report what looks wrong. Tap the thumbs down under an AskMed answer and pick a reason, such as Inaccurate or Sources don't match. Best AI for cardiology covers tools for the heart, where diabetes and cardiovascular risk meet, and best AI for nurses covers tools for nursing questions. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for endocrinology? AskMed is the best AI for endocrinology questions when you need an answer you can check. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, including the American Diabetes Association's journals, NICE, KDIGO, NEJM, The Lancet, PubMed and the Cochrane Library, then writes an answer with a link after every claim and the year of each guideline recommendation. If it finds no usable source, it says so instead of answering from memory, and it never gives doses. AskMed is built for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, works worldwide without an NPI, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. OpenEvidence serves verified healthcare professionals with an NPI, and UpToDate Expert AI answers from UpToDate content. Q: Does AskMed use the current ADA Standards of Care? Yes. AskMed searches diabetesjournals.org, where the ADA publishes the Standards in Diabetes Care, and gives the year of each recommendation. When we checked in November 2026, the current edition was the Standards of Care in Diabetes—2026. Q: Does AskMed give insulin or GLP-1 doses? No. AskMed explains what a drug class is for, how it works, how it is chosen, what to monitor and its side effects, but never gives doses, titration schedules or dose calculations. Those come from the current label and the treating clinician. Q: Can AskMed read a thyroid ultrasound or adrenal CT? No. AskMed reads attached images for their printed text only, so it cannot interpret the scan. Paste the radiology report text, and AskMed sets it against the guideline with a citation for each step. Q: Can AskMed calculate HOMA-IR? The HOMA-IR calculator on getaskmed.com does the calculation in your browser from one fasting glucose and one fasting insulin. In the app, AskMed explains what the result means, with sources. Q: Is AskMed only for endocrinologists? No. AskMed is built for doctors in any specialty, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-gastroenterology Title: Best AI for Gastroenterology and Hepatology | AskMed # Best AI for Gastroenterology: Cited Answers on the Gut and Liver Our pick first, then the other tools gastroenterologists, hepatologists, GI fellows, endoscopy and liver nurses, pharmacists and students weigh for questions on GI bleeding, fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, pancreatitis, IBD and H. pylori. Updated 10 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for gut and liver questions. It answers from GI journals, guidelines and drug labels, links every claim to its source, and works for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers worldwide. Answers from | Journals, clinical guidelines, drug labels and clinical references Sources for the gut and liver | Gastroenterology (the AGA's journal), PubMed and PubMed Central, NICE, WHO, CDC, NEJM, The Lancet, The BMJ, the Cochrane Library and the MSD Manual for professionals Citations | A link after every claim; 8 sources per answer by default, 3–12 if you change it Guidelines | The year of each recommendation, and what changed when guidance was updated No source found | Says so, never answers from memory Endoscopy and imaging | Images are not interpreted; printed text in an image, such as a report, is read Doses | Never Built for | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students, researchers Where | Worldwide, no US license or NPI needed Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## Which AI tools answer gastroenterology and hepatology questions? This guide compares the AI tools that gastroenterologists, hepatologists, GI fellows, nurses and students weigh for gut and liver questions, and each tool does a different job. AskMed is an AI medical reference that answers questions on upper GI bleeding, fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, pancreatitis, inflammatory bowel disease and H. pylori from journals, guidelines and drug labels, with a link after every claim, for anyone in medicine in any country. OpenEvidence is a clinical AI search engine for verified healthcare professionals, and its App Store listing says an NPI is required. UpToDate Expert AI is the AI companion to the UpToDate clinical reference and needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. ChatGPT is OpenAI's general chatbot. Much of what is called AI in gastroenterology, such as polyp detection during colonoscopy, AI scribes and endoscopy image software, is a different category and is left out here. The table shows what each tool is, where its answers come from and who can use it. Tool | Type | Answers from | Who can use it AskMed | AI medical reference | Gastroenterology, PubMed, NICE, WHO and other journals, guidelines, drug labels and references, with a link after every claim | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, worldwide; no NPI OpenEvidence | Clinical AI search | Peer-reviewed literature; partners include NEJM and JAMA | Verified healthcare professionals; NPI required, per its App Store listing; not available in the UK, EU or EEA, per its Terms UpToDate Expert AI | AI companion to UpToDate | UpToDate content, with answers linked to supporting sources | Holders of an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Not limited to medical sources | Anyone ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence describes itself on its US App Store listing as a clinical decision support platform and medical search engine for healthcare professionals. The listing names NEJM, JAMA, NCCN, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley as official partners. It marks an NPI as required, says users must verify their healthcare professional status, and says the app contains advertising. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, so GI teams there need another tool. AskMed vs OpenEvidence compares the two in detail. ### UpToDate Expert AI UpToDate Expert AI is an AI-powered companion to the UpToDate clinical reference. Its App Store listing says answers are grounded in UpToDate content and linked to supporting sources, and that access needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled, through an enterprise account or a personal subscription. It suits clinicians whose hospital already uses UpToDate. AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI compares the two side by side. ### ChatGPT ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot, on the web, iPhone and Android. It helps to talk a mechanism through or draft a patient leaflet on reflux, but it is not limited to medical sources, so check any clinical claim against the guideline first. OpenAI also runs ChatGPT for Clinicians, which its help center opens to verified US clinicians with an NPI and a license check. Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? covers what studies found. ## How does AskMed answer a gut or liver question? AskMed answers a gastroenterology or hepatology question in four steps, and you can check each one. First, AskMed rewrites the question as a medical search query, and for management questions it adds "latest guideline update" so the newest guidance is found. Second, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, never the open web or forums; for the gut and liver, that list includes Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterological Association's journal, plus PubMed, PubMed Central, NICE, WHO, CDC, NEJM, The Lancet, The BMJ, the Cochrane Library, the MSD Manual for professionals and BMJ Best Practice, and FDA and DailyMed drug labels. Third, AskMed ranks what it found: guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then reviews and references, then large trials, preferring work from the last 10 years. Fourth, an AI language model writes the answer with a link after every claim and gives the year of each guideline recommendation. If no usable source turns up, AskMed says that instead of answering from memory. The AGA's living guidelines appear in Gastroenterology itself, such as its 2024 guideline on moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis ( doi). ACG guidelines in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, AASLD guidance in Hepatology and EASL guidelines in the Journal of Hepatology are not on AskMed's list of sites, so they reach AskMed through PubMed and PubMed Central. For evidence questions such as "Does early ERCP help in biliary pancreatitis without cholangitis?", Research Mode reads the most relevant source in full before it writes the answer. How AskMed answers lists every source. ## Can AI help risk-stratify an upper GI bleed? AI can help risk-stratify an upper GI bleed by explaining which score fits and what the guidelines do with the result, but the arithmetic is quicker on a calculator. The Glasgow-Blatchford score, published by Blatchford and colleagues in The Lancet in 2000 from 1,748 patients, uses only data available before endoscopy: blood urea, hemoglobin, systolic blood pressure, pulse, melena, syncope, liver disease and heart failure, for a total from 0 to 23. The 2021 ACG guideline on upper gastrointestinal and ulcer bleeding suggests risk assessment in the emergency department to find very-low-risk patients, such as those with a Glasgow-Blatchford score of 0–1, who may be discharged with outpatient follow-up, and suggests endoscopy within 24 hours of presentation for those admitted. The 2019 international consensus group made the same 0–1 suggestion. AskMed can set out that reasoning with its sources, and explain how the full Rockall score differs, since it needs endoscopic findings. - Score it. The Glasgow-Blatchford score calculator adds the points from the 2000 paper and flags the 0–1 very-low-risk cut-off. - Compare scores. Glasgow-Blatchford vs Rockall explains which score answers which question, and the Rockall score calculator covers both versions. - Ask the follow-up. "Which patients with a low Glasgow-Blatchford score still need admission?" gets a cited answer from the ACG guideline and the international consensus. ## Can AI help stage liver fibrosis in MASLD? AI can help stage liver fibrosis in MASLD by laying out the noninvasive pathway step by step with its sources, while a calculator gives the number. MASLD, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, is the name a 2023 multisociety Delphi consensus of 236 panelists from 56 countries chose to replace NAFLD; it requires hepatic steatosis plus at least one of five cardiometabolic risk factors. The 2023 AASLD practice guidance uses FIB-4, calculated from age, AST, ALT and platelet count, as the first step: under 1.3 is low risk, and patients stay in primary care. A FIB-4 of 1.3 or more leads to a second test, vibration-controlled transient elastography or the ELF blood test, and AASLD advises considering direct hepatology referral when FIB-4 is over 2.67. For people aged 65 and over, a cut-off of 2.0 replaces 1.3. The 2024 EASL–EASD–EASO guideline covers the same disease for Europe. - Calculate FIB-4. Age, AST, ALT and platelet count. FIB-4 calculator - Under 1.3: low risk. Manage in primary care; repeat FIB-4 every 1 to 2 years in people with prediabetes, type 2 diabetes or two or more metabolic risk factors. - 1.3 or more: second test. On transient elastography, under 8 kPa rules out advanced fibrosis and over 12 kPa makes it likely; on ELF, the matching cut-offs are under 7.7 and 9.8 or more. - Over 2.67: consider direct referral. AASLD advises considering direct referral to hepatology. A simplified outline of the 2023 AASLD pathway for adults under 65. FIB-4 vs FibroScan explains each cut-off and its limits. - Sources. The 2023 AASLD practice guidance, the 2023 nomenclature consensus, the 2024 EASL–EASD–EASO guideline and the original FIB-4 paper from 2006. - Cirrhosis. The MELD calculator gives MELD, MELD-Na and MELD 3.0, which replaced MELD-Na for US transplant listing in July 2023; MELD for liver transplant covers referral. - Alcohol-associated hepatitis. The Maddrey discriminant function calculator flags 32 or more, the threshold for severe disease in EASL and AASLD guidance; Maddrey vs MELD compares the two. - Hepatitis B. WHO published updated hepatitis B guidelines in March 2024, and who.int is on AskMed's list of guideline sources. ## Can AI help with acute pancreatitis, IBD and H. pylori? AI can help with acute pancreatitis, inflammatory bowel disease and H. pylori by summarizing what each current guideline recommends and linking the paper, so you can check the wording yourself. In acute pancreatitis, the ACG guideline published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology in 2024 notes that almost one-fifth of patients develop complications such as pancreatic necrosis or organ failure. The BISAP score from Wu and colleagues in 2008 gives one point each for five findings in the first 24 hours, and the 2012 revised Atlanta classification grades the final course as mild, moderately severe or severe, where severe means organ failure lasting more than 48 hours. In Crohn's disease, the 2025 AGA living guideline in Gastroenterology made 16 recommendations and, for moderate-to-severe disease, suggests starting advanced therapy rather than stepping through corticosteroids and immunomodulators first. In H. pylori, the 2024 ACG guideline prefers bismuth quadruple therapy when antibiotic susceptibility is unknown and calls for a test of cure after treatment. - Pancreatitis severity. The BISAP score calculator shows in-hospital mortality by score from the 2008 study; BISAP vs Ranson compares the two. The revised Atlanta classification and the ACG guideline are the papers to open. - IBD. Ask how the AGA Crohn's guideline ranks advanced therapies, or what the 2025 ACG guidelines on ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease recommend. AskMed names drugs and classes, never doses. - H. pylori. Ask who to test and which regimen fits after a failed first course; the ACG guideline and the Maastricht VI/Florence consensus are the sources to check. ## What should GI fellows, nurses, pharmacists and students look for in an AI? GI fellows, endoscopy and liver nurses, pharmacists and students need an AI tool whose gut and liver answers can be checked in seconds and that names the guideline it quotes. First, citations: each claim should link to the guideline, trial or drug label behind it, not to a reading list at the end. Second, the society and year: ACG, AGA, AASLD, EASL and NICE guidance can differ, and the AGA publishes living guidelines that are updated as evidence arrives, so an answer should say whose guidance it quotes and from when. Third, doses: AskMed explains what a drug class is for, how it works, what to monitor and its side effects, but never gives doses, which come from the label. Fourth, access: OpenEvidence's App Store listing says an NPI is required and its Terms exclude the UK, EU and EEA, while UpToDate Expert AI needs an UpToDate subscription. AskMed needs no NPI or license and works in any country, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. - Fellows and residents. Research Mode for journal club, and "what changed in the latest IBD guideline?" questions on rounds. - Endoscopy and liver nurses. Monitoring after endoscopy, warning signs of a rebleed and signs of hepatic encephalopathy, with sources. - Pharmacists. Interactions between named drugs, drug-induced liver injury and which drugs need caution in cirrhosis, without doses. - Students. Paste an exam-style question with its options: the first sentence names the correct option and the answer explains why each other option is wrong. ## What are the limits of AI for gastroenterology? The main limit of AI for gastroenterology is that an answer can only be as good as its sources and the question it was given, and GI and liver guidance changes often, with living guidelines and new disease names such as MASLD. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, so a society guideline published elsewhere may reach AskMed only as a PubMed abstract, and every AskMed answer is written by an AI language model that can misread a source or leave something out; no person reviews it before you see it. Open the citation behind any sentence you act on and check that it covers the same patients, since evidence in compensated cirrhosis does not answer a question about acute-on-chronic liver failure. AskMed reads text, not endoscopy photos, CT scans or histology slides, and it gives no doses: take those from the current label or your local formulary. AskMed is for education and reference by healthcare professionals and students, not for emergencies or patients' self-diagnosis. - Paste the report, not the picture. An endoscopy, imaging or pathology report as text or a PDF gives AskMed words it can use; attachments explains what is read. - Check the source. Every AskMed claim has its own link, so you check one sentence against one page. - Report what looks wrong. Tap the thumbs down under an AskMed answer and pick a reason, such as Inaccurate or Sources don't match. Best AI for emergency medicine covers tools for the ED, and best AI for pharmacists covers drug information tools. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for gastroenterology? AskMed is the best AI for gastroenterology and hepatology questions when you need an answer you can check. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, including the AGA's journal Gastroenterology, PubMed, PubMed Central, NICE, WHO, NEJM, The Lancet and the Cochrane Library, then writes an answer with a link after every claim and the year of each guideline recommendation. If it finds no usable source, it says so instead of answering from memory, and it never gives doses. AskMed is built for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, works worldwide without an NPI, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. OpenEvidence serves verified healthcare professionals with an NPI, and UpToDate Expert AI answers from UpToDate content. Q: Does AskMed use ACG, AGA and AASLD guidelines? Yes. AskMed searches Gastroenterology, where AGA guidelines are published, directly, and finds ACG, AASLD and EASL guidelines through PubMed and PubMed Central. Each recommendation comes with its year, and the answer says so when sources disagree. Q: Can AskMed calculate a MELD or FIB-4 score? AskMed explains what a score means and which cut-offs a guideline uses. For the number itself, the getaskmed.com calculators for MELD, FIB-4, Glasgow-Blatchford, BISAP and the Maddrey discriminant function each follow the original paper and link it. Q: Can AskMed read an endoscopy image? No. AskMed reads attached images for their printed text only, so it cannot interpret an endoscopy photo, a CT scan or a histology slide. Paste the report text, and AskMed gives a cited explanation and next steps. Q: Does AskMed give doses for IBD or H. pylori drugs? No. AskMed explains which drugs and regimens a guideline recommends, how they work, what to monitor and their side effects, but never gives doses or schedules. Those come from the current label and the treating clinician. Q: Is AskMed only for gastroenterologists? No. AskMed is built for doctors in any specialty, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-nephrology Title: Best AI for Nephrology Questions | AskMed # Best AI for Nephrology: Cited Answers on the Kidney Our pick first, then the other tools nephrologists, renal fellows, dialysis and ward nurses, pharmacists and students weigh for questions on acute kidney injury, CKD staging, potassium and sodium, and glomerular disease. Updated 10 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for nephrology questions. It answers from KDIGO, NICE, major journals and drug labels, links every claim to its source, and works for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers worldwide. Answers from | Journals, clinical guidelines, drug labels and clinical references Sources for the kidney | KDIGO, NICE, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ, PubMed, PubMed Central and the Cochrane Library Citations | A link after every claim; 8 sources per answer by default, 3–12 if you change it Guidelines | The year of each recommendation, and what changed when guidance was updated Units | Both unit systems where countries differ No source found | Says so, never answers from memory Lab reports | Text from an attached PDF or photo is read; biopsy slides and scans are not interpreted Doses | Never; how dosing is adjusted for kidney function is explained without numbers Built for | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students, researchers Where | Worldwide, no US license or NPI needed Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## Which AI tools answer nephrology questions? This guide compares the AI tools that nephrologists, renal fellows, dialysis and ward nurses, pharmacists and students weigh for kidney questions, and each one does a different job. AskMed is an AI medical reference that answers questions on acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, potassium and sodium disorders, glomerular disease and kidney stones from journals, guidelines and drug labels, with a link after every claim, for anyone in medicine in any country. OpenEvidence is a clinical AI search engine for verified healthcare professionals; its App Store listing says an NPI is required and lists the American Urological Association among its content agreements. UpToDate Expert AI is the AI companion to the UpToDate clinical reference and needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. ChatGPT is OpenAI's general chatbot. AI scribes, billing software and tools that analyze kidney images are different categories and are left out. The table shows what each tool is, where its answers come from and who can use it. Tool | Type | Answers from | Who can use it AskMed | AI medical reference | KDIGO, NICE, major journals, PubMed, drug labels and references, with a link after every claim | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, worldwide; no NPI OpenEvidence | Clinical AI search | Peer-reviewed literature; partners include NEJM and JAMA; content agreements include the AUA | Verified healthcare professionals; NPI required, per its App Store listing; not available in the UK, EU or EEA, per its Terms UpToDate Expert AI | AI companion to UpToDate | UpToDate content | Holders of an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Not limited to medical sources | Anyone ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence describes itself as a clinical decision support platform and medical search engine for healthcare professionals. Its US App Store listing names NEJM, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, NCCN, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley as official AI partners, and lists content agreements and collaborations with medical societies, the American Urological Association among them. The listing marks an NPI as required, says users must verify their healthcare professional status, and says the app contains advertising. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, so renal teams there need another tool. AskMed vs OpenEvidence compares the two in detail. ### UpToDate Expert AI UpToDate Expert AI is an AI-powered companion to the UpToDate clinical reference. Its App Store listing says it gives evidence-based responses grounded in UpToDate content, and that access requires an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled, through an enterprise account or a personal subscription. It suits clinicians whose hospital already uses UpToDate. AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI compares the two side by side. ### ChatGPT ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot, on the web, iPhone and Android. It helps to talk through renal physiology or draft a dialysis education leaflet, but it is not limited to medical sources, so check any clinical claim against the guideline first. OpenAI also runs ChatGPT for Clinicians, which its help center opens to verified US clinicians with an NPI and a license check. Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? covers what studies found. ### KDIGO and NICE resources without AI chat Many renal clinicians keep the guideline itself open next to their AI tool. KDIGO's guideline index runs from acute kidney injury to the transplant recipient, with each guideline's full text and executive summary. In the UK, NICE publishes NG203 on chronic kidney disease (August 2021, last updated November 2021), NG148 on acute kidney injury (December 2019, last updated October 2024) and NG118 on renal and ureteric stones (January 2019). These are for reading the guideline itself, which is also where an AI answer should lead you. ## How does AskMed answer a nephrology question? AskMed answers a nephrology question in four steps, and you can check each one. First, AskMed rewrites the question as a precise medical search query, and for management questions it adds "latest guideline update" so the newest guidance is found. Second, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, never the open web or forums; for the kidney, that list includes KDIGO, NICE, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ, PubMed, PubMed Central and the Cochrane Library, plus FDA and DailyMed drug labels. Third, AskMed ranks what it found: guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then reviews and references, then large trials, preferring work from the last 10 years. Fourth, an AI language model writes the answer with a link after every claim, gives the year of each guideline recommendation and says so when sources disagree. If no usable source turns up, AskMed says that instead of answering from memory. Kidney journals such as Kidney International, JASN and AJKD are not on that list by name, so their papers reach AskMed as PubMed abstracts or as full text on PubMed Central, while KDIGO's guidelines are searched on kdigo.org itself. AskMed is told to give both units when countries report a measurement differently, as they do for creatinine (mg/dL or µmol/L). For evidence questions such as "Do SGLT2 inhibitors slow CKD progression in people without diabetes?", Research Mode reads the most relevant source in full before it writes the answer. How AskMed answers lists every source. ## Can AI help work up acute kidney injury? AI can help work up acute kidney injury by applying the KDIGO definition and staging to the numbers you give it and listing the causes to look for, with a source for each step, but it cannot examine the patient. The KDIGO 2012 Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Kidney Injury defines AKI as a rise in serum creatinine of at least 0.3 mg/dL (26.5 µmol/L) within 48 hours, a rise to at least 1.5 times baseline known or presumed to have occurred within the prior 7 days, or urine output below 0.5 mL/kg/h for 6 hours. It stages severity from 1 to 3 by creatinine and urine output, and says the cause should be determined whenever possible. The 2012 guideline is still the published version: KDIGO's AKI page says a 2026 guideline on AKI and acute kidney disease has been through public review and is being prepared for publication. AskMed searches kdigo.org directly, so an answer can say which version it used. - Which stage? Give the baseline and current creatinine with their dates, and the urine output. In KDIGO 2012, stage 2 is 2.0–2.9 times baseline, and stage 3 is 3.0 times baseline, a creatinine of 4.0 mg/dL (353.6 µmol/L) or more, the start of kidney replacement therapy, or urine output below 0.3 mL/kg/h for 24 hours or anuria for 12 hours. - Which cause? KDIGO asks for prompt evaluation with special attention to reversible causes. Ask for the prerenal, intrinsic and postrenal causes that fit your findings, and paste the medicine list to see which drug classes can harm the kidney. - Why not eGFR? Creatinine-based eGFR assumes stable kidney function, so it does not reflect GFR while creatinine is still rising or falling, as the eGFR calculator explains. - After discharge. KDIGO 2012 says to evaluate patients 3 months after AKI for resolution, new CKD or worsening of existing CKD. In the UK, NICE NG148 covers prevention, detection and management. ## Can AI stage chronic kidney disease by KDIGO? AI can stage chronic kidney disease by KDIGO when it is given the GFR, the urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) and how long they have been abnormal, and it should name the 2024 guideline it uses. The KDIGO 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease, published in Kidney International, defines CKD as abnormalities of kidney structure or function present for a minimum of 3 months, with implications for health. It classifies CKD by Cause, GFR category (G1 to G5) and Albuminuria category (A1 to A3), abbreviated CGA. A1 is an ACR below 30 mg/g (3 mg/mmol), A2 is 30 to 300 mg/g (3 to 30 mg/mmol) and A3 is above 300 mg/g (30 mg/mmol). The guideline recommends creatinine-based eGFR in adults at risk for CKD, combined with cystatin C when it is available, and an externally validated equation to estimate the absolute risk of kidney failure in CKD G3 to G5. Risk of CKD outcomes by GFR category (rows, mL/min/1.73 m²) and albuminuria category (columns, urine ACR; 3 and 30 mg/mmol), redrawn from the KDIGO 2024 CKD guideline, which shades the same grid green to red. G1 or G2 with A1 is not CKD unless other markers of kidney damage are present. - GFR category. The eGFR calculator uses the CKD-EPI 2021 equation without a race term and shows the KDIGO G category; CKD-EPI vs MDRD explains why the older equations were replaced. - When to refer. KDIGO 2024 says a 5-year kidney failure risk of 3% to 5% from a validated equation can be used, with eGFR and ACR criteria, to decide on nephrology referral. - Which drug classes. Ask what KDIGO 2024 recommends by class, for example renin-angiotensin system inhibitors in CKD with diabetes and A2 or A3 albuminuria, and SGLT2 inhibitors in type 2 diabetes with CKD and an eGFR of 20 or more. AskMed gives the class and the evidence, never the dose. - Creatinine after starting an ACE inhibitor or ARB. KDIGO 2024 says to continue it unless serum creatinine rises by more than 30% within 4 weeks of starting or of a dose increase. - Mineral and bone. The corrected calcium calculator and the guide to the calcium phosphate product in CKD cover two common lab questions. ## Can AI help manage hyperkalemia and other electrolyte problems? AI can help with hyperkalemia and other electrolyte problems by grading the result, listing what to check and ordering the treatment steps by drug class with a citation for each, but it should give no doses, which come from your local protocol. KDIGO has no stand-alone potassium guideline; its 2018 Controversies Conference on potassium, published in Kidney International in 2020, covers chronic hyperkalemia and its treatment in the emergency department and on the ward. The UK Kidney Association's guideline on hyperkalaemia in adults, updated in July 2026, grades hyperkalaemia as mild at 5.5 to 5.9 mmol/L, moderate at 6.0 to 6.4 mmol/L and severe at 6.5 mmol/L or above, and covers the community, hospital and resuscitation settings. That update lowered the evidence grade for IV calcium after a 2025 ILCOR systematic review found no evidence for or against its use. In CKD, KDIGO 2024 says hyperkalemia on renin-angiotensin system inhibitors can often be managed by lowering potassium rather than reducing or stopping the inhibitor. - Hyperkalemia. Ask how treatment is ordered by drug class (protecting the heart, shifting potassium into cells, removing it from the body) and which drugs on the list raise potassium. The KDIGO potassium conference report is on PubMed; the UKKA guideline sits on ukkidney.org, which is not on AskMed's source list, so open it directly. - Acid–base. Work out the gap with the anion gap calculator, which corrects it for a low albumin, then use the delta gap and delta ratio to look for a mixed disorder before asking AskMed for the causes that fit. - Sodium. For hyponatremia, the 2014 European clinical practice guideline on hyponatraemia in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation sets out the diagnostic steps; give the serum and urine values and ask which category fits. - Calcium. Correct a total calcium for albumin with the corrected calcium calculator before asking about hypercalcemia or hypocalcemia. ## Can AI help with glomerulonephritis and nephrotic syndrome? AI can help with glomerulonephritis and nephrotic syndrome by sorting a nephritic from a nephrotic picture, listing the serology and urine tests that narrow the cause, and pointing to the right KDIGO guideline, but the diagnosis often rests on a kidney biopsy that no chatbot can read. The KDIGO 2021 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Glomerular Diseases covers the main glomerular diseases, and KDIGO has since published separate guidelines on lupus nephritis (2024), ANCA-associated vasculitis (2024), nephrotic syndrome in children (2025) and IgA nephropathy and IgA vasculitis (2025). The 2025 IgA guideline says IgA nephropathy can be diagnosed only with a kidney biopsy, says a biopsy should be considered in adults with proteinuria of 0.5 g/day or more in whom IgA nephropathy is possible, and says proteinuria should be kept below 0.5 g/day and ideally below 0.3 g/day. AskMed searches kdigo.org, so an answer can cite the guideline that applies and give its year. - Nephritic or nephrotic? Give the urinalysis, the protein measure, the albumin and the blood pressure, and ask which tests come next and why. - Biopsy reports. Paste the pathology report's text and ask what the guideline does with that finding; AskMed reads text, not slides or images, and attachments explains what is read. - Treatment questions. Ask by guideline and year, for example what the KDIGO 2024 lupus nephritis guideline, the 2024 ANCA vasculitis guideline or the 2025 IgA guideline says about drug classes and response targets. AskMed names the classes and never the doses. ## What should renal fellows, nurses, pharmacists and students look for in an AI? Renal fellows, nurses, pharmacists and students need an AI tool whose answers can be checked in seconds and that names the guideline edition it quotes. Four checks matter. First, citations: each claim should link to the guideline, trial or drug label behind it, not to a reading list at the end. Second, the edition: KDIGO has published new guidelines on CKD, lupus nephritis, ANCA vasculitis and IgA nephropathy since 2024 and has an AKI update on the way, so an answer should give the year. Third, units and doses: AskMed gives creatinine in both units where countries differ, and explains how dosing is adjusted for kidney function without giving numbers. Fourth, access: OpenEvidence's App Store listing says an NPI is required and its Terms exclude the UK, EU and EEA, and UpToDate Expert AI needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. AskMed needs no NPI or license, works in any country and carries no pharma advertising. - Fellows and residents. Research Mode for journal club and for "what changed in the 2024 CKD guideline?" questions on rounds. - Dialysis and ward nurses. Fluid balance, what to monitor on a nephrotoxic drug, and what a potassium or creatinine result means for the next check, with sources. - Pharmacists. Which drugs need adjustment in reduced kidney function and why, and which combinations raise potassium or harm the kidney, by class and without doses. - Students. Paste an exam-style question with its options: the first sentence names the correct option and the answer explains why each other option is wrong. - Stones and urology. NICE NG118 covers the assessment and management of renal and ureteric stones, and AskMed searches nice.org.uk directly. ## What are the limits of AI for nephrology? The main limit of AI for nephrology is that an answer can only be as good as its sources and the numbers it was given, and kidney guidance keeps changing, with several new KDIGO guidelines since 2024 and an AKI update in preparation. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, so a society guideline published elsewhere, such as the UK Kidney Association's, may reach AskMed only as a PubMed abstract, and every AskMed answer is written by an AI language model that can misread a source; no person reviews it first. Open the citation behind any sentence you act on and check that it covers the same patients, since evidence in stable CKD does not answer a question about AKI in intensive care. AskMed reads text, not biopsy slides, ultrasound images or dialysis machine data, and it gives no doses. AskMed is for education and reference by healthcare professionals and students, not for emergencies or for patients' self-diagnosis. - Check the source. Every AskMed claim has its own link, so you check one sentence against one page. - Check the numbers. Staging depends on a true baseline creatinine and on timing; a wrong baseline gives a wrong AKI stage, whoever does the sum. - Report what looks wrong. Tap the thumbs down under an AskMed answer and pick a reason, such as Inaccurate or Sources don't match. Best AI for pharmacists covers drug information tools, and best AI for nurses covers tools for nursing questions. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for nephrology? AskMed is the best AI for nephrology questions when you need an answer you can check. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, including KDIGO, NICE, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ, PubMed and the Cochrane Library, then writes an answer with a link after every claim and the year of each guideline recommendation. If it finds no usable source, it says so instead of answering from memory, and it never gives doses. AskMed is built for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, works worldwide without an NPI, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. OpenEvidence serves verified healthcare professionals with an NPI, and UpToDate Expert AI answers from UpToDate content. Q: Does AskMed use the current KDIGO guidelines? Yes. AskMed searches kdigo.org directly and gives the year of each recommendation. When we checked in November 2026, the current CKD guideline was KDIGO 2024, and the published AKI guideline was still KDIGO 2012, with a 2026 update being prepared after public review. Q: Can AskMed stage CKD from my lab results? Yes, if you give it the eGFR, the urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio and how long they have been abnormal. AskMed applies the KDIGO 2024 G and A categories with a citation. The eGFR calculator gives the G category from creatinine, age and sex. Q: Does AskMed give renal dose adjustments? No. AskMed explains which drugs need adjusting in reduced kidney function, why, and what to monitor, but never gives doses, amounts or schedules. Those come from the current label and the treating clinician. Q: Can AskMed read a kidney biopsy or ultrasound? No. AskMed reads attached images for their printed text only, so it cannot interpret a biopsy slide or a scan. Paste the pathology or radiology report text, and AskMed gives a cited explanation and next steps. Q: Is AskMed only for nephrologists? No. AskMed is built for doctors in any specialty, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-osce-practice Title: Best AI for OSCE Practice and Preparation | AskMed # Best AI for OSCE Practice: Stations, Plans and Differentials Our pick first, then the AI tools medical, nursing and pharmacy students and international graduates use to practise OSCE stations, and how to check the medicine behind each one. Updated 9 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for checking the medicine behind OSCE stations. It is not a patient simulator: it answers management, differential and findings questions from guidelines, journals and drug labels, with a link after every claim. Role in OSCE prep | Checking the plan, differential and findings behind a station Answers from | Journals, clinical guidelines such as NICE, drug labels and clinical references Citations | A link after every claim; 8 sources per answer by default, 3–12 if you change it Management | Every guideline-recommended option named, with the year of each recommendation Differentials | Can't-miss causes first, each with its distinguishing feature and first test AI patient or station marking | None: run stations with a partner, a course or a simulator Your notes | Paste a note or attach a PDF or image of your plan Doses | Never Built for | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students, researchers Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## Which AI tools help with OSCE practice? OSCE practice with AI splits into two jobs, and no tool in this guide does both. The first job is performing a station: taking a history, explaining a diagnosis or counselling a patient out loud against the clock, which needs someone or something to play the patient and mark you. Geeky Medics and PLABable's OSCE AI do this with AI patients, and ChatGPT's voice mode can hold a spoken role-play. The second job is checking the medicine behind the station: whether your management plan matches current guidance, whether your differential put the dangerous causes first, and what a result actually means. AskMed does the second job, answering from journals, clinical guidelines such as NICE, and drug labels, with a link after every claim. AskMed is not a patient simulator and does not mark stations, so pair AskMed with a simulator, a study partner or a course. The table shows what each tool is and what it is best for. Tool | Type | Best for | What it offers for OSCEs AskMed | AI medical reference | Checking plans, differentials and findings | Cited answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels; no AI patient or station marking Geeky Medics | OSCE guides, scenarios and AI virtual patients | Rehearsing consultations, alone or in a group | 1,300+ OSCE scenarios, 900+ AI patients by text, voice or video, and AI examiner feedback, per its App Store listing PLABable OSCE AI | AI patient for PLAB 2-style stations | Timed eight-minute stations with a marking report | 153 stations, a pass or fail report for every station ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Spoken role-play of a patient | Advanced Voice Mode; no OSCE stations or mark scheme, and not limited to medical sources ### Geeky Medics Geeky Medics' App Store listing describes more than 200 OSCE guides with step-by-step instructions, videos and checklists, and more than 1,300 OSCE scenarios. Its virtual patients are over 900 AI patients that, in the listing's words, "listen and respond like a real patient, by text, voice or video", with AI examiner feedback on how to improve. Group practice assigns candidate, patient and examiner roles so you can run stations with friends. The listing also names MLA AKT questions, PSA prescribing questions, and radiology, blood test, blood gas and ECG cases. Premium content needs an auto-renewing annual subscription. ### PLABable OSCE AI PLABable's OSCE AI page says you talk to an AI patient, take a history and get marked against a marking guide. It lists 153 stations, timed eight-minute stations in the same format as PLAB 2, a patient that answers your questions in real time, and a full assessment report with pass or fail for every station. Its sample report scores data gathering, clinical management and interpersonal skills, the three domains PLAB 2 is marked on. Because it is built around PLAB 2, it suits international graduates heading for UK practice most; best AI tools for PLAB 2 compares it with other PLAB 2 options. ### ChatGPT ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot. Its App Store listing describes Advanced Voice Mode: tap the soundwave icon for a real-time spoken conversation. Give ChatGPT a scenario, ask it to play the patient and take the history out loud. It has no OSCE station bank or official mark scheme and is not limited to medical sources, so check its clinical content before you learn it. Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? covers what studies found. ## What does an OSCE test in the UK, the US and elsewhere? An OSCE, or objective structured clinical examination, tests what you do with a patient in a fixed time across a series of stations, each marked against set criteria, and the format differs by country. In the UK, the GMC's PLAB 2 for international graduates has 16 scenarios of eight minutes each, marked on data gathering, technical and assessment skills, clinical management, and interpersonal skills. UK medical students sit the clinical and professional skills assessment (CPSA), one of the two parts of the Medical Licensing Assessment, often called the UKMLA; each medical school sets and delivers its own CPSA, and the GMC quality assures it. In Australia, the AMC clinical examination has 16 assessed stations, each with two minutes of reading and eight minutes of assessment. In the US, the USMLE ended Step 2 Clinical Skills in January 2021, so there is no national licensing OSCE and clinical skills exams are set locally. The table compares these formats. Exam | Who sits it | Format | What is assessed PLAB 2 (UK, GMC) | Doctors who qualified outside the UK, the EEA or Switzerland | 16 scenarios of eight minutes, at least two rest stations, about three hours | Data gathering, technical and assessment skills; clinical management; interpersonal skills CPSA (UK, part of the MLA) | UK medical students graduating from 2024–25 | Set and delivered by each medical school, to GMC requirements | Clinical and professional skills, from the MLA content map; pass or fail AMC clinical exam (Australia) | International medical graduates who passed the AMC CAT MCQ exam | 16 assessed and 4 rest stations; 2 minutes reading, 8 minutes assessment | History taking, examination, diagnostic formulation, or management, counselling and education US | Medical students | USMLE Step 2 CS discontinued, announced 26 January 2021 | Clinical reasoning and communication on the other Steps, including case simulations in Step 3 Sources: the GMC's PLAB 2 guide and CPSA page, the AMC's clinical examination page and the USMLE's announcement. Whatever the exam, the guidance that counts is the one that applies where you sit it. AskMed's guideline sources include NICE, the US Preventive Services Task Force, CDC, WHO and the ESC, but no Australian guideline body, so check Australian guidance directly for the AMC. ## How do you practise a history-taking station with AI? A history-taking station is practised best as a loop: perform the station out loud, find what you missed, fix the knowledge behind the gap, then perform it again. Step one is the performance, with a study partner, a course or an AI patient such as Geeky Medics' virtual patients or PLABable's OSCE AI, timed to your exam's station length, which is eight minutes in PLAB 2. Step two is the gap: write down the questions you forgot to ask, such as red flags, a drug history or the patient's concerns. Step three is the knowledge, and that is where AskMed fits: ask which features of the presenting complaint matter and why, for example "Which headache features need urgent investigation, according to NICE?", and AskMed answers from the guideline with a link after every claim. Step four is the next attempt at the same or a similar scenario. The loop below shows the order; AskMed's part is the checking, not the role-play. - Run the station. Out loud and timed, with a partner, a course or an AI patient. - Note the gaps. The questions you forgot, the plan you gave and the findings you could not explain. - Check the medicine. Ask AskMed for the guideline plan, the differential or what a result means, with a link after every claim. - Open the source. Read the guideline behind the point you will say to the examiner, and check its year. - Run it again. The same or a similar scenario, until the gap is closed. The station-practice loop. AskMed covers steps 3 and 4; steps 1 and 5 need a person or a simulator. - Chest pain. "Which features in a chest pain history point to acute coronary syndrome, aortic dissection or pulmonary embolism?" - Abdominal pain. "In a woman of reproductive age with lower abdominal pain, what must be ruled out first, and with which test?" - Feverish child. "Which features in a feverish child under 5 does NICE class as high risk?" - Breathlessness. "Which questions separate heart failure, COPD and asthma in an adult with breathlessness?" ## How do you check an OSCE management plan against guidelines? To check an OSCE management plan, type out the plan you gave at the station, name the setting and the country, and ask AskMed what current guidance would add or change. AskMed is built to give complete management answers: before finishing, the AI checks its own draft so that every guideline-recommended option is named, the whole treatment pathway is visible, and the year of every guideline recommendation is stated. When guidance has changed, the answer gives the newest position and says what changed and since which year, which matters in an exam marked against current practice. Say "UK" or "NICE" for PLAB 2 and the CPSA, because US and UK guidance can differ. Use follow-ups to rehearse the twist an examiner adds: "and if she is pregnant?" is read together with your last question and answer. AskMed never gives doses, so for a prescribing element take the amounts from the BNF or the current drug label. - Paste your plan. Use Paste note, or attach a PDF or a photo of printed notes; attachments explains what is read. - Ask for the whole pathway. First-line and alternative options, what to do after no response, monitoring, and special situations such as pregnancy. - Name the setting. A GP telephone consultation, an emergency department and a ward call for different plans. - Check the year. A current guideline outweighs an older review; open the citation behind the step you will say aloud. ## How can AI help you review differentials and explain findings? For differentials, AskMed is instructed to list the can't-miss causes first and then the common ones, each with its distinguishing feature and first test, which is the order an OSCE examiner expects when you present a case. Describe the patient the way you would to the examiner, with age, the presenting complaint, key positives and negatives, and the setting, and ask for the differential. For findings, AskMed explains a lab test with its normal and decision thresholds, a stepwise interpretation, the causes of an abnormal result and common pitfalls, and gives both unit systems where countries differ, such as HbA1c in % and mmol/mol. AskMed reads attached images for their printed text only, so it can read a printed lab report but cannot interpret an X-ray, an ECG tracing or a skin photo; describe those findings in words. For explanation stations, use AskMed for the facts, then put them into plain words yourself and practise saying them aloud. - Present, then ask. "Adult with pleuritic chest pain, tachycardia and a recent long-haul flight, in the emergency department: differential and first tests?" - Interpret a result. "Low sodium with low serum osmolality: stepwise interpretation and causes?" - Prepare an explanation. "What does a new diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mean for monitoring and treatment options?" Then explain it to your partner without jargon. - Describe images in words. Rate, rhythm and ST changes for an ECG, or the zone and pattern of shadowing for a chest X-ray. How AskMed answers lists every source AskMed searches and the rules each answer follows. ## What are the limits of AI for OSCE preparation? The main limit of AI for OSCE preparation is that an OSCE is a performance in front of an examiner, and no app can examine an abdomen, feel a pulse or practise a procedure on a manikin for you. Examination and procedure stations need hands-on practice in a clinical skills session or with a partner. AI patients and AI examiner feedback are written by AI too, so a mark from a simulator is a practice signal, not the judgement of a real examiner; the official guidance for your exam, such as the GMC's PLAB 2 guide, the MLA content map or your school's handbook, sets what is marked. Every AskMed answer is written by an AI language model from the sources its search found, and no person reviews it before you see it, so open the citation behind any point you will say to an examiner. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, so guidance published elsewhere may not appear, and it gives no doses. - Follow your exam's country. NICE and other UK guidance for PLAB 2 and the CPSA; the guidance your school teaches elsewhere. - Practise with people. Communication, empathy and timing are marked, and a partner or examiner shows them best. - Report what looks wrong. Tap the thumbs down under an AskMed answer and pick a reason, such as Inaccurate or Sources don't match. Best AI tools for PLAB 2 covers the UK OSCE for international graduates in detail, and best AI apps for USMLE covers the US written exams. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for OSCE practice? The best AI for OSCE practice is a pair of tools: one that plays the patient and one that checks the medicine. For the performance, Geeky Medics' App Store listing describes over 900 AI patients by text, voice or video with AI examiner feedback, and PLABable's OSCE AI offers 153 timed PLAB 2-style stations with a pass or fail report. For the content, AskMed is our pick: it answers management, differential and findings questions from journals, clinical guidelines such as NICE, and drug labels, with a link after every claim and the year of each guideline recommendation. If AskMed finds no usable source, it says so instead of answering from memory, and it never gives doses. AskMed is built for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Q: Is AskMed an OSCE simulator? No. AskMed has no AI patient, no OSCE station bank and no station marking. It checks the medicine behind a station: the guideline plan, the differential and what a finding means, each claim linked to its source. Q: Can ChatGPT play a patient for OSCE practice? Yes. ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode holds a real-time spoken conversation, so you can give it a scenario and take a history out loud. It has no OSCE mark scheme and is not limited to medical sources, so check its clinical content against a guideline. Q: Which guidelines should I use for a UK OSCE? UK guidance, such as NICE, for PLAB 2 and the CPSA. Add "UK" or "NICE" to your AskMed question, because US and UK recommendations can differ, and check the year of each recommendation in the answer. Q: Does AskMed give doses for prescribing stations? No. AskMed explains which drug a guideline recommends, why, what to monitor and the side effects that matter, but never gives doses or schedules. Take those from the BNF or the current drug label. Q: Is AskMed only for medical students? No. AskMed is built for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-obgyn Title: Best AI for OB/GYN Questions | AskMed # Best AI for OB/GYN: Cited Answers on Pregnancy and Fertility Our pick first, then the other tools obstetricians, gynecologists, midwives, residents and students weigh for questions on pregnancy, infertility and IVF, PCOS and menopause. Updated 9 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for OB/GYN questions. It answers from ACOG, NICE and WHO guidance, journals and drug labels, links every claim to its source, and works for doctors, midwives, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers worldwide. Answers from | Journals, clinical guidelines, drug labels and clinical references Sources for OB/GYN | ACOG, NICE, WHO, PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ Citations | A link after every claim; 8 sources per answer by default, 3–12 if you change it Guidelines | The year of each recommendation, and what changed when guidance was updated No source found | Says so, never answers from memory CTG and ultrasound images | Not interpreted; printed text in an image is read Doses | Never Built for | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students, researchers Where | Worldwide, no US license or NPI needed Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## Which AI tools answer OB/GYN questions? This guide compares the AI tools that obstetricians, gynecologists, midwives, residents and students weigh for questions on pregnancy, labour, infertility, IVF, PCOS and menopause, and each one does a different job. AskMed is an AI medical reference that answers from journals, guidelines and drug labels, including ACOG, NICE and WHO guidance, with a link after every claim, for anyone in medicine in any country. OpenEvidence is a clinical AI search engine for verified healthcare professionals; its App Store listing says an NPI is required and names a content agreement with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. UpToDate Expert AI is Wolters Kluwer's AI companion to UpToDate and needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. ChatGPT is OpenAI's general chatbot. AI scribes that write clinic letters and notes are a different category and are left out. The table shows what each tool is, where its answers come from and who can use it. Tool | Type | Answers from | Who can use it AskMed | AI medical reference | Journals, ACOG, NICE, WHO and other guidelines, drug labels and references, with a link after every claim | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, worldwide; no NPI OpenEvidence | Clinical AI search | Peer-reviewed literature; partners include NEJM and JAMA; content agreement with ACOG | Verified healthcare professionals; NPI required, per its App Store listing; not available in the UK, EU or EEA, per its Terms UpToDate Expert AI | AI companion to UpToDate | UpToDate content, with answers linked to supporting sources | Holders of an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Not limited to medical sources | Anyone ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence describes itself as a clinical decision support tool and medical search engine. Its US App Store listing names NEJM, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, NCCN, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley as official partners, and lists content agreements with medical societies, among them the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). The listing marks an NPI as required, says users must verify their healthcare professional status, and says the app contains advertising. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, so obstetric and fertility teams there need another tool. AskMed vs OpenEvidence compares the two in detail. ### UpToDate Expert AI UpToDate Expert AI is Wolters Kluwer's AI-powered companion to the UpToDate clinical reference. Its App Store listing says answers are grounded in UpToDate content and linked to supporting sources, and that access needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled, through an enterprise account or a personal subscription. It suits clinicians whose hospital already uses UpToDate. AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI compares the two side by side. ### ChatGPT ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot, on the web, iPhone and Android. It helps to talk a physiology question through or draft a patient leaflet, but it is not limited to medical sources, so check any clinical claim against a guideline first. OpenAI also runs ChatGPT for Clinicians, which its help center opens to US clinicians with a valid NPI and a license that can be verified. Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? covers what studies found. ### The guideline bodies themselves Every OB/GYN answer should lead back to a guideline you can open. ACOG publishes Clinical Practice Guidelines, Clinical Consensus documents and Committee Opinions, and says its Practice Bulletin and Committee Opinion series have come to a close, with current documents staying available until they are replaced or withdrawn. The RCOG's Green-top Guidelines are listed by topic on its site, with archived ones marked. ESHRE lists its reproductive medicine guidelines by year, NICE covers antenatal, intrapartum, fertility and menopause care, and WHO publishes global guidance on antenatal care and infertility. None of these sites is an AI tool: they are where an AI answer should send you. ## How does AskMed answer an OB/GYN question? AskMed answers an OB/GYN question in four steps, and you can check each one. First, AskMed rewrites the question as a precise medical search query, and for management questions it adds "latest guideline update" so the newest guidance is found. Second, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, never the open web or forums; for obstetrics and gynecology, that list includes ACOG, NICE, WHO, PubMed and PubMed Central, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ, plus FDA and DailyMed drug labels. The RCOG and ESHRE websites are not on the list, so AskMed finds their guidelines through PubMed, which indexes BJOG, where Green-top Guidelines are published, and Human Reproduction, which carries ESHRE guideline papers. Third, AskMed ranks what it found: guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then reviews and references, then large trials. Fourth, an AI language model writes the answer with a link after every claim and the year of each recommendation. - You ask. One question, with gestation, parity and setting, for example "Twin pregnancy, 32 weeks: what does guidance say about timing of birth?" - AskMed searches. ACOG, NICE, WHO, PubMed, the Cochrane Library, major journals and drug labels, never forums. - AskMed ranks. Guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then reviews, then large trials. - The answer cites. A link after every claim and the year of each guideline recommendation, with no doses. - You check. Open the citation behind the sentence you will act on, and see whose guideline it is and when it was last updated. How an OB/GYN question becomes a cited AskMed answer. If no usable source is found, AskMed says so. Guidance in this field changes often, so check the version as well as the body. The table lists current documents for the topics people ask about most, each checked on the body's own site in November 2026. Topic | Body, document and year Antenatal care | NICE: NG201 Antenatal care, 2021 Antenatal care | WHO: Recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience, 2016 Induction of labour | NICE: NG207 Inducing labour, 2021 Intrapartum care | NICE: NG235 Intrapartum care, 2023, updated June 2026 Apgar score | ACOG with the AAP: Committee Opinion 644, 2015, reaffirmed 2025 Fertility problems | NICE: NG257 Fertility problems, March 2026, replacing CG156 Infertility | WHO: Guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility, November 2025 Ovarian stimulation for IVF/ICSI | ESHRE: Guideline update, 2025 OHSS management | RCOG: Green-top Guideline No. 5, fourth edition, 2026 PCOS | International group with ESHRE: International Evidence-based Guideline, 2023 Menopause | NICE: NG23 Menopause: identification and management, 2015, updated April 2026 ## Can AI answer pregnancy and labour questions? AI can answer most pregnancy and labour questions well when it works from current guidelines, because antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care have detailed published guidance from NICE, ACOG, the RCOG and WHO. AskMed explains screening, conditions such as pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes and hyperemesis, induction, labour care and the newborn assessment, with a source after each point and the year of each recommendation. For medicines in pregnancy and breastfeeding, AskMed covers what the evidence and the label say about safety, the alternatives and what to monitor, but never gives doses or schedules. Glucose values are given in both mg/dL and mmol/L, since units differ between countries. A short follow-up such as "and in twin pregnancy?" is read together with the previous answer. AskMed reads attached images for their printed text only, so it cannot interpret a CTG trace or an ultrasound image: describe the findings in words, or attach a typed report as a PDF. - Induction of labour. NICE NG207 asks for the cervix to be assessed and recorded as the Bishop score, and uses a score of 6 or less, or more than 6, to decide which method is offered first. The Bishop score calculator on getaskmed.com scores dilation, effacement, station, consistency and position. - The newborn. ACOG Committee Opinion 644, written with the American Academy of Pediatrics, says the Apgar score alone is not evidence of asphyxia and does not predict an individual baby's mortality or neurologic outcome. The Apgar score calculator scores the five signs at each time point. - Nausea and vomiting. The RCOG's Green-top Guideline No. 69 on hyperemesis gravidarum is published in BJOG, so AskMed can find it through PubMed. - Country matters. Say where you practise: NICE, ACOG and WHO recommendations on screening and timing do not always agree. ## Can AI check infertility and IVF evidence? AI can check infertility and IVF evidence well when it shows the guideline version and the strength of the evidence, because reproductive medicine has several overlapping guidelines and many treatments with weak data. In March 2026, NICE published NG257 on fertility problems, which replaced CG156 from 2013, so an answer still quoting CG156 is out of date. WHO published its guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility on 28 November 2025. ESHRE's 2023 guideline on unexplained infertility gives 52 recommendations and says evidence for many tests and treatments was very limited and of very low quality. AskMed gives the year of each recommendation and says so when sources disagree. For questions such as "Does endometrial scratching improve live birth rates?", Research Mode finds studies, ranks study quality and reads the most relevant paper in full, and the study type filters can keep only systematic reviews and meta-analyses. - Ovarian stimulation. ESHRE's 2025 update of its 2019 guideline adds 46 new recommendations and updates 29. ESHRE's page says the section on recombinant FSH biosimilars has been temporarily removed while the group reviews the evidence further, which an AI summary may miss. - OHSS. The RCOG's Green-top Guideline No. 5, fourth edition, published in 2026, covers managing ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome; the RCOG says prevention is outside its scope and is covered by British Fertility Society and ESHRE guidance. - Unexplained infertility. The ESHRE guideline is in Human Reproduction, with its research recommendations. - Add-ons. Ask AskMed what the trials show for a named add-on, then compare it with ESHRE's 2023 add-ons guideline. ## How do you check PCOS and menopause guidance with AI? To check PCOS and menopause guidance with AI, ask for the named guideline and its year, then open the citation and confirm it is the current version. For PCOS, the main reference is the 2023 International Evidence-based Guideline for the Assessment and Management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, for which ESHRE was again a funding partner; ESHRE's page says it covers screening and diagnosis, psychological features and models of care, lifestyle, non-fertility features and infertility, for the one in eight women affected. The RCOG's older Green-top Guideline No. 33 on long-term consequences of PCOS is marked archived on the RCOG site. For menopause, NICE NG23, now titled "Menopause: identification and management", was first published in 2015 and last updated in April 2026, when NICE amended its advice on when to seek help for vaginal bleeding on systemic HRT. AskMed searches NICE directly, gives the year of each recommendation and explains HRT options without doses. - Diagnosis questions. Ask which criteria the 2023 PCOS guideline uses in adults and in adolescents, and check the summary paper. - HRT questions. Benefits and risks by type and route, contraindications and follow-up, each with a source, and no doses. - Premature ovarian insufficiency. NICE NG23 covers it, and ESHRE lists a 2024 POI guideline; AskMed names each body and year when they differ. - ACOG documents. ACOG says membership or a subscription to Obstetrics & Gynecology is required to access its Clinical Practice Guidelines and Practice Bulletins. ## What should OB/GYN residents, midwives and students look for in an AI? OB/GYN residents, midwives, nurses and students need an AI tool whose answers can be checked in seconds and that shows whose guidance it is quoting. Four checks matter. First, citations: each claim should link to the guideline, trial or drug label behind it, not to a reading list at the end. Second, the body and the year: the tool should name ACOG, NICE, RCOG, ESHRE or WHO, give the year, and notice replacements such as NICE NG257 replacing CG156 in 2026. Third, sign-up: OpenEvidence's App Store listing says an NPI is required, its Terms exclude the UK, EU and EEA, and UpToDate Expert AI needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. Fourth, advertising: OpenEvidence's listing says the app contains ads, while AskMed carries no pharma advertising or sponsorship. AskMed meets all four for anyone in medicine: a link after every claim, the year of every guideline recommendation, and no NPI or license needed to sign up. - Residents. Research Mode for journal club and for "why did this guideline change?" questions on the labour ward. - Midwives and nurses. What NICE recommends for antenatal and intrapartum care, with the guideline year, and what to monitor on a named medicine. - Students. Paste an exam-style question with its options: the first sentence names the correct option and the answer explains why each other option is wrong. - Pharmacists and researchers. Safety evidence on named medicines in pregnancy and breastfeeding without doses, and where the trial evidence agrees or conflicts. ## What are the limits of AI for OB/GYN? The main limit of AI for OB/GYN is that an answer can only be as good as its sources and the question it was given, and guidance in this field moves fast: NICE replaced its fertility guideline in 2026, updated its menopause and intrapartum guidelines the same year, and the RCOG published a new OHSS guideline. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, and the RCOG and ESHRE websites are not on it, so open their guidelines on rcog.org.uk or eshre.eu when the answer cites a journal summary. Every AskMed answer is written by an AI language model that can misread a source or leave something out, and no person reviews it before you see it. Check that the cited source covers the same patients, since a trial in IVF does not answer a question about natural conception. AskMed is for education and reference by healthcare professionals and students, not for obstetric emergencies or for patients' self-diagnosis, and it gives no doses. - Check the source. Every AskMed claim has its own link, so you check one sentence against one page. - Check the version. Look for "replaced by" or "archived" notices on the body's own page before you act. - Report what looks wrong. Tap the thumbs down under an AskMed answer and pick a reason, such as Inaccurate or Sources don't match. How AskMed answers lists every source, guidelines outside the US explains NICE and WHO coverage, and best AI for medical literature search covers tools for finding papers. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for OB/GYN? AskMed is the best AI for OB/GYN questions when you need an answer you can check. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, including ACOG, NICE, WHO, PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM and The Lancet, then writes an answer with a link after every claim and the year of each guideline recommendation. If it finds no usable source, it says so instead of answering from memory, and it never gives doses. AskMed is built for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, works worldwide without an NPI, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. OpenEvidence serves verified healthcare professionals with an NPI, and UpToDate Expert AI answers from UpToDate content. Q: Does AskMed use ACOG, RCOG, NICE and ESHRE guidelines? AskMed searches ACOG, NICE and WHO directly. RCOG Green-top Guidelines and ESHRE guidelines are found through PubMed, which indexes BJOG and Human Reproduction where they are published. Each recommendation comes with its year. Q: Can AskMed read a CTG or an ultrasound image? No. AskMed reads attached images for their printed text only, so it cannot interpret a CTG trace or an ultrasound image. Describe the findings in words, or attach a typed report, and AskMed gives a cited answer. Q: Can I use OpenEvidence for OB/GYN outside the US? OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is not available in the UK, EU or EEA, and its App Store listing says an NPI is required. AskMed works in any country with no NPI or license. Q: Does AskMed give doses for medicines in pregnancy? No. AskMed explains what a medicine is for, what the evidence says about its safety in pregnancy and breastfeeding, the alternatives and what to monitor, but never gives doses or schedules. Those come from the current label and the treating clinician. Q: Is AskMed only for obstetricians and gynecologists? No. AskMed is built for doctors in any specialty, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-pulmonology Title: Best AI for Pulmonology Questions | AskMed # Best AI for Pulmonology: Cited Answers on the Lungs Our pick first, then the other tools pulmonologists, respiratory residents, ICU nurses and students weigh for questions on asthma, COPD, pulmonary embolism, pleural disease, interstitial lung disease and sleep apnea. Updated 9 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for pulmonology questions. It answers from GINA, GOLD, respiratory journals and drug labels, links every claim to its source, and works for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers worldwide. Answers from | Journals, clinical guidelines, drug labels and clinical references Sources for the lungs | GINA, GOLD, the American Thoracic Society journals, NICE, the ESC, NEJM, The Lancet, PubMed, PubMed Central and the Cochrane Library Citations | A link after every claim; 8 sources per answer by default, 3–12 if you change it Guidelines | The year of each recommendation, and what changed when guidance was updated No source found | Says so, never answers from memory Chest images | X-rays and CT scans are not interpreted; printed text in an image is read Device settings | Ventilator settings, tube sizes and chest drain suction pressures, when the sources state them Doses | Never Built for | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students, researchers Where | Worldwide, no US license or NPI needed Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## Which AI tools answer pulmonology questions? This guide compares the AI tools that pulmonologists, respiratory residents, ICU nurses and students weigh for lung questions, and each one does a different job. AskMed is an AI medical reference that answers questions on asthma, COPD, pulmonary embolism, pleural disease, interstitial lung disease and sleep apnea from journals, guidelines and drug labels, with a link after every claim, for anyone in medicine in any country. OpenEvidence is a clinical AI search engine for verified healthcare professionals; its App Store listing says an NPI is required and lists GINA among its content agreements. UpToDate Expert AI is the AI companion to the UpToDate clinical reference and needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. ChatGPT is OpenAI's general chatbot. AI scribes and software that reads chest images or sleep study recordings are different categories and are left out. The table shows what each tool is, where its answers come from and who can use it. Tool | Type | Answers from | Who can use it AskMed | AI medical reference | GINA, GOLD, the ATS journals and other journals, guidelines, drug labels and references, with a link after every claim | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, worldwide; no NPI OpenEvidence | Clinical AI search | Peer-reviewed literature; partners include NEJM and JAMA; content agreements include GINA | Verified healthcare professionals; NPI required, per its App Store listing; not available in the UK, EU or EEA, per its Terms UpToDate Expert AI | AI companion to UpToDate | UpToDate content, with answers linked to supporting sources | Holders of an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Not limited to medical sources | Anyone ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence describes itself as a clinical decision support platform and medical search engine for healthcare professionals. Its US App Store listing names NEJM, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, NCCN, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley as official partners, and lists content agreements and collaborations with medical societies, GINA among them. The listing marks an NPI as required, says users must verify their healthcare professional status, and says the app contains advertising. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, so respiratory teams there need another tool. AskMed vs OpenEvidence compares the two in detail. ### UpToDate Expert AI UpToDate Expert AI is an AI-powered companion to the UpToDate clinical reference. Its App Store listing says answers are grounded in UpToDate content and linked to supporting sources, and that access needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled, through an enterprise account or a personal subscription. It suits clinicians whose hospital already uses UpToDate. AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI compares the two side by side. ### ChatGPT ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot, on the web, iPhone and Android. It helps to talk a mechanism through or draft an inhaler leaflet, but it is not limited to medical sources, so check any clinical claim against the guideline first. OpenAI also runs ChatGPT for Clinicians, which its help center opens to verified US clinicians with an NPI and a license check. Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? covers what studies found. ### GINA and GOLD resources without AI chat Many respiratory clinicians keep the guideline itself open next to their AI tool. GINA's website carries the 2026 GINA Strategy Report with a 2026 Summary Guide and a 2026 Severe Asthma Guide. GOLD's website carries the 2026 GOLD Report and a pocket guide that GOLD calls a quick-reference guide for physicians and nurses. GOLD has also partnered with AvoMD to offer its COPD treatment strategies in a digitized format on the GOLD website and inside electronic health records; GOLD's page does not describe a chat feature. These are for reading the guideline itself, which is also where an AI answer should lead you. ## How does AskMed answer a pulmonology question? AskMed answers a pulmonology question in four steps, and you can check each one. First, AskMed rewrites the question as a precise medical search query, and for management questions it adds "latest guideline update" so the newest guidance is found. Second, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, never the open web or forums; for the lungs, that list includes GINA, GOLD, the American Thoracic Society's journals, NICE, the European Society of Cardiology, NEJM, The Lancet, PubMed, PubMed Central and the Cochrane Library, plus FDA and DailyMed drug labels. Third, AskMed ranks what it found: guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then reviews and references, then large trials, preferring work from the last 10 years. Fourth, an AI language model writes the answer with a link after every claim, gives the year of each guideline recommendation and says so when sources disagree. If no usable source turns up, AskMed says that instead of answering from memory. Several joint respiratory guidelines sit on those sites: the 2022 ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT guideline on idiopathic and progressive pulmonary fibrosis is in the American Thoracic Society's journal and on PubMed Central ( doi), and the 2019 ESC guideline on acute pulmonary embolism, developed with the European Respiratory Society, is on the ESC website. For evidence questions such as "Do biologics reduce COPD exacerbations?", Research Mode reads the most relevant source in full before it writes the answer. How AskMed answers lists every source. ## Can AI check an asthma or COPD answer against GINA and GOLD? AI can check an asthma or COPD answer against GINA and GOLD when it searches those reports directly and names the edition it used, and AskMed does both: ginasthma.org and goldcopd.org are on AskMed's fixed list of guideline sources. Both groups publish a new report every year, so the year matters. On ginasthma.org, the current report is the 2026 GINA Strategy Report, Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention, with a 2026 Summary Guide and a 2026 Severe Asthma Guide; its executive summary and key changes appeared in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine in October 2026. On goldcopd.org, the current report when we checked was the 2026 GOLD Report, Global Strategy for Prevention, Diagnosis and Management of COPD. GOLD's list of 2026 key changes adjusted the criteria for the A, B and E groups, so that one moderate exacerbation is now the threshold to consider escalating treatment, and added a chapter on artificial intelligence in COPD. - Asthma. How GINA assesses symptom control and future risk, which treatment step fits, inhaler technique and adherence checks, and when to refer for severe asthma, by drug class and without doses ( GINA reports). - COPD. Spirometry confirmation, which in the GOLD pocket guide needs a post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC below 0.7, the A, B and E groups, initial versus follow-up treatment and exacerbation care ( 2026 GOLD Report). - Pneumonia. Severity in community-acquired pneumonia with the CURB-65 calculator, which shows the 30-day mortality from the original study, and its comparison with the PSI. - What GOLD says about AI. The 2026 pocket guide says AI can help in the diagnosis, assessment, management and prognosis of COPD, but comes with risks and limitations that need careful consideration before use in practice. ## Can AI help work up a suspected pulmonary embolism? AI can help work up a suspected pulmonary embolism by laying out the validated sequence of clinical probability, rule-out criteria, D-dimer and imaging, with a source for each step, but the bedside scores are quicker on a calculator. The current European guideline is the 2019 ESC guideline on acute pulmonary embolism, developed with the European Respiratory Society and published in the European Heart Journal; the ESC website lists no newer edition. AskMed searches the ESC website, the major journals and PubMed, so it can explain where the Wells score, the PERC rule and D-dimer testing fit, how risk is stratified once PE is confirmed, and which drug classes are used, without doses. On getaskmed.com, three calculators cover the scores: the Wells score for PE sorts patients into PE likely or unlikely, the PERC rule checks eight criteria in patients already judged low risk, and CURB-65 grades pneumonia, a common alternative diagnosis. Each calculator links its original paper by DOI. - Judge the pretest probability. The PERC rule is used only when clinical suspicion is already low. - Low suspicion: apply PERC. All 8 criteria negative rules PE out in that group without a D-dimer; if any is positive, PERC cannot rule PE out. PERC rule calculator - Otherwise: score Wells. The two-level score gives PE likely or PE unlikely. Wells score for PE - PE unlikely: D-dimer. A normal result rules PE out; a raised one leads to imaging. - PE likely or D-dimer raised: imaging. Usually CT pulmonary angiography, then risk stratification if PE is found. A simplified outline of where each getaskmed.com calculator fits in a suspected-PE workup. Each calculator page gives its own studies and limits. PERC vs Wells and Wells vs Geneva explain how the scores differ. More lung calculators are on the way. ## Can AI help with pleural effusion, interstitial lung disease and sleep apnea? AI can help with pleural effusion, interstitial lung disease and sleep apnea by summarizing the workup each guideline sets out and linking the source, though none of the three can be diagnosed from a chat. For an undiagnosed unilateral effusion, the British Thoracic Society's 2023 Guideline for pleural disease, published in Thorax, covers effusion workup alongside pneumothorax, pleural infection and pleural malignancy, and Light's criteria from 1972 still separate exudates from transudates by comparing pleural fluid with serum protein and LDH. For fibrotic lung disease, the 2022 ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT guideline updated idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and defined progressive pulmonary fibrosis. For sleep apnea, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine's 2017 diagnostic testing guideline recommends against diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea in adults with questionnaires or prediction tools alone, without polysomnography or home sleep apnea testing. AskMed cannot read a chest X-ray, a CT scan or a sleep study recording, so paste the report text and ask about that. - Pleural effusion. Give the pleural fluid and serum values and ask "Exudate or transudate, and what next?" The BTS 2023 guideline and Light's 1972 paper are the sources to open. - Interstitial lung disease. Paste the HRCT report's wording and the clinical picture, and ask how the 2022 guideline separates IPF from progressive pulmonary fibrosis. - Sleep apnea. Ask which test fits: the AASM guideline recommends polysomnography rather than home testing in significant cardiorespiratory disease, neuromuscular weakness, awake hypoventilation, chronic opioid use, stroke or severe insomnia. - Reports, not pictures. A radiology or sleep study report as a PDF gives AskMed text it can use; attachments explains what is read. ## What should pulmonology residents, ICU nurses and students look for in an AI? Pulmonology residents, respiratory and ICU nurses, respiratory therapists and students need an AI tool whose answers can be checked in seconds and that names the guideline edition it quotes. Four checks matter. First, citations: each claim should link to the guideline, trial or drug label behind it, not to a reading list at the end. Second, the edition: GINA and GOLD publish every year, so an answer should give the report year and say what changed. Third, device settings: AskMed treats ventilator settings, airway and tube sizes and chest drain suction pressures as device settings, not doses, so it gives their numbers when the sources state them, while drug doses are never given. Fourth, access: OpenEvidence's App Store listing says an NPI is required and its Terms exclude the UK, EU and EEA, and UpToDate Expert AI needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. AskMed needs no NPI or license, works in any country and carries no pharma advertising, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. - Residents and fellows. Research Mode for journal club and for "what changed in this year's GOLD Report?" questions on rounds. - ICU and respiratory nurses. Ventilator modes and alarms, chest drain care and what to monitor on a respiratory drug, with sources. - Students. Paste an exam-style question with its options: the first sentence names the correct option and the answer explains why each other option is wrong. - Pharmacists and researchers. Inhaler classes, device technique and interactions between named drugs without doses, and where trial evidence agrees or conflicts. ## What are the limits of AI for pulmonology? The main limit of AI for pulmonology is that an answer can only be as good as its sources and the question it was given, and respiratory guidance changes yearly, with new GINA and GOLD reports. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, so a society guideline published elsewhere may reach AskMed only as a PubMed abstract, and every AskMed answer is written by an AI language model that can misread a source or leave something out; no person reviews it before you see it. Open the citation behind any sentence you act on and check that it covers the same patients, since evidence in stable COPD does not answer a question about an exacerbation in intensive care. AskMed reads text, not chest images, spirometry curves or sleep study recordings, and it gives no doses: take those from the current label or your local formulary. AskMed is for education and reference by healthcare professionals and students, not for emergencies or for patients' self-diagnosis. - Check the source. Every AskMed claim has its own link, so you check one sentence against one page. - Check the edition. A current GINA or GOLD report outweighs an older review, and AskMed gives the year of each recommendation. - Report what looks wrong. Tap the thumbs down under an AskMed answer and pick a reason, such as Inaccurate or Sources don't match. Best AI for emergency medicine covers tools for the ED, and best AI for nurses covers tools for nursing questions. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for pulmonology? AskMed is the best AI for pulmonology questions when you need an answer you can check. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, including GINA, GOLD, the American Thoracic Society journals, NICE, NEJM, The Lancet, PubMed and the Cochrane Library, then writes an answer with a link after every claim and the year of each guideline recommendation. If it finds no usable source, it says so instead of answering from memory, and it never gives doses. AskMed is built for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, works worldwide without an NPI, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. OpenEvidence serves verified healthcare professionals with an NPI, and UpToDate Expert AI answers from UpToDate content. Q: Does AskMed use the current GINA and GOLD reports? Yes. AskMed searches ginasthma.org and goldcopd.org directly and gives the year of each recommendation. When we checked in November 2026, the current editions were the 2026 GINA Strategy Report and the 2026 GOLD Report. Q: Can AskMed read a chest X-ray or CT scan? No. AskMed reads attached images for their printed text only, so it cannot interpret the image. Paste the radiology report text, and AskMed gives a cited differential and next steps. Q: Can AskMed give ventilator settings? Yes, when its sources state them. Ventilator settings, airway and tube sizes and chest drain suction pressures are device settings, not drug doses, so AskMed gives their numbers with a citation. Q: Does AskMed give inhaler doses? No. AskMed explains what an inhaler class is for, how it works, how treatment steps are chosen, what to monitor and its side effects, but never gives doses or schedules. Those come from the current label and the treating clinician. Q: Is AskMed only for pulmonologists? No. AskMed is built for doctors in any specialty, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-emergency-medicine Title: Best AI for Emergency Medicine | AskMed # Best AI for Emergency Medicine: Cited Answers on Shift Our pick first, then five other tools that emergency physicians, residents, ED nurses, PAs and students use for fast, cited answers and clinical scores. Updated 8 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for emergency medicine: it answers resuscitation, drug and guideline questions from journals, guidelines and drug labels, links every claim to its source, and needs no NPI. Answers | Cited from journals, guidelines and drug labels, a link after every claim Guidelines | Ranked first, with the year of every recommendation Drugs | Uses, mechanism, monitoring, side effects and interactions; never doses Devices | Tube and airway sizes, ventilator settings and chest drain suction, when the sources state them No source found | Says so, never answers from memory ED scores | HEART, Wells, PERC, qSOFA, GCS and more as web calculators Built for | Doctors, residents, nurses, students, pharmacists, researchers Where | Worldwide, no license or NPI needed Runs on | iPhone, iPad, Android, web; 7 languages ## Which AI tools do emergency clinicians use? Emergency physicians, EM residents, ED nurses, physician assistants and students mostly weigh six AI tools, and each one does a different job on shift. AskMed answers clinical questions from journals, guidelines and drug labels, with a link after every claim, for anyone who works or studies in medicine in any country. OpenEvidence is a clinical search engine for healthcare professionals; its App Store listing says an NPI is required and names the American College of Emergency Physicians among its content collaborations. UpToDate Expert AI is the AI companion to the UpToDate clinical reference and answers from UpToDate content. MDCalc is not a chatbot but a decision support app with more than 900 calculators, risk scores and clinical tools, founded by two emergency physicians. ChatGPT for Clinicians is OpenAI's workspace for verified US clinicians, and the general ChatGPT app is not limited to medical sources. AI scribes that write ED notes are a different category and are not covered here. Tool | What it is | Answers from | Who can sign up AskMed | AI medical reference | Journals, guidelines and drug labels, a link after every claim | Doctors, nurses, students, pharmacists and researchers, worldwide; no NPI OpenEvidence | Clinical AI search | 35 million+ peer-reviewed papers, 300+ journals, FDA and CDC sources (App Store) | Verified healthcare professionals; NPI required; not in the UK, EU or EEA UpToDate Expert AI | AI companion to UpToDate | UpToDate content, linked to supporting sources | UpToDate subscribers with Expert AI enabled MDCalc | Calculator and decision tool app | 900+ calculators, risk scores and tools; content written by physician experts | Clinicians, after registration ChatGPT for Clinicians | OpenAI clinical workspace | Peer-reviewed studies, public health guidance and clinical guidelines, with citations | Verified US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Not limited to medical sources | Anyone ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence calls itself a clinical decision support platform and medical search engine. Its US App Store listing says it is available only to healthcare professionals, that an NPI is required and that users must verify their status first. It describes 35 million+ peer-reviewed papers from 300+ journals plus FDA and CDC sources, cites every claim, and lists the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) among its content agreements and collaborations. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area. AskMed vs OpenEvidence compares the two in detail. ### UpToDate Expert AI UpToDate Expert AI is Wolters Kluwer's generative AI companion to the UpToDate clinical reference, announced on September 24, 2025. Its App Store listing says answers are grounded in UpToDate content and linked to supporting sources, and that access needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled, through an enterprise account or a personal subscription. Wolters Kluwer says its personal plan with Expert AI, UpToDate Pro Plus, is sold in the United States and Canada as a limited market release. If your hospital already licenses UpToDate, ask whether Expert AI is switched on. AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI covers the differences. ### MDCalc MDCalc's App Store listing describes 900+ evidence-based calculators, risk scores and clinical tools, offline use, and CME earned by reading the content around many tools. Its About page says MDCalc was founded by two emergency physicians, Dr. Joseph Habboushe and Dr. Graham Walker, and that its content is written by physician experts. The listing does not describe an AI chat feature, so MDCalc sits beside a question-answering tool rather than replacing one. ### ChatGPT for Clinicians OpenAI's help center lists verified clinicians in the United States, namely physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists, as eligible for ChatGPT for Clinicians, checked with an NPI and a license verification. OpenAI says answers draw on peer-reviewed studies, public health guidance and clinical guidelines, with citations that give the title, journal, authors and date. Registered nurses, students and clinicians outside the US are not on that list. ### ChatGPT ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot on the web, iPhone and Android. It is useful for talking a topic through or drafting a patient leaflet, but it is not limited to medical sources, so check any clinical claim against a guideline or label first. Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? covers what published studies found. ## What can AskMed answer in the emergency department? AskMed answers the clinical questions that come up between patients in the emergency department, and every claim links to the source behind it. Emergencies, such as shock, resuscitation and anaphylaxis, are among the topics people ask AskMed about most. Before writing anything, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources: PubMed and the Cochrane Library, journals such as NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and the American Heart Association journals, guideline bodies such as NICE, WHO, CDC, ESC and IDSA, FDA and DailyMed drug labels, and references such as StatPearls, BMJ Best Practice and the MSD Manual. For management questions, AskMed adds "latest guideline update" to its search, ranks guidelines first and gives the year of each recommendation. Drug answers cover what a medicine is for, how it works, monitoring, side effects and interactions, but never doses. Device settings are not doses, so airway and tube sizes, ventilator settings and chest drain suction pressures come with their numbers when the sources state them. - Workup questions. Ask for a differential with the can't-miss causes first, or for the first test for each cause. Each answer draws on 8 sources by default, and you can set 3 to 12. - Guideline checks. Ask what the current guideline says about a presentation and see its year. When guidance has changed, the answer says what changed and since when. - Drug information without doses. Ask what a drug is for, how it works, what to monitor and which interactions matter. Amounts come from the current label, your formulary or the ED's drug guide. - Context from a file. Attach a PDF, a photo of printed text such as a lab report or discharge summary, or a pasted note, and AskMed can cite the file for what the file says. Images are read for their text only. - Follow-ups. A short follow-up such as "and in pregnancy?" is read together with your previous question, and every answer ends with three suggested follow-ups. Checking a guideline between patients and a night shift with no senior to ask show AskMed used in the gaps of a busy shift. ## Which emergency scores can you calculate on getaskmed.com? getaskmed.com publishes clinical score calculators as web pages, and several of them fit common emergency department questions: chest pain, suspected pulmonary embolism or DVT, sepsis, reduced consciousness, transient ischemic attack, upper GI bleeding, pneumonia and suspected appendicitis. Each calculator is built from the original paper or guideline, links to it by DOI, and lists the score's limits. The calculations run in your browser, and the values you type are not sent anywhere. The calculators are not inside the AskMed iPhone or Android app; they open in any browser on a phone, tablet or computer. They cover fewer scores than MDCalc, whose listing describes 900+ tools, so a rarer score still means opening MDCalc. For the reasoning around a score, such as when PERC applies or how HEART compares with TIMI and GRACE, read the score's guide page or ask AskMed for a cited answer. The table lists the ED scores available today. Presentation | Calculator | What it gives Chest pain | HEART score | 6-week MACE risk from the 2013 validation study Suspected PE | Wells score for PE | Low, moderate or high; PE likely or unlikely Suspected PE, low pretest probability | PERC rule | 8 criteria: PERC negative, positive or outside the rule Suspected DVT | Wells score for DVT | 2003 two-level and 1997 three-level models Suspected sepsis | qSOFA | The Sepsis-3 cut-off of 2 in adults with suspected infection Reduced consciousness | Glasgow Coma Scale | E-V-M notation, not testable options, TBI severity band TIA | ABCD2 score | 2-day stroke risk for each group Upper GI bleeding | Glasgow-Blatchford score | 0 to 23, with the 0–1 low-risk cut-off Pneumonia | CURB-65 | 30-day mortality by score Suspected appendicitis | Alvarado score | 0 to 10, with Alvarado's 1986 bands Deteriorating patient | NEWS2 | RCP clinical risk and response Guide pages explain how the scores fit together: PERC vs Wells, HEART vs TIMI vs GRACE, qSOFA vs SIRS and AVPU vs GCS. ## How can EM residents and students use AI to study? Emergency medicine residents and students get the most from AI when each answer explains why, with a source they can open, so a gap found on shift or in a practice question turns into a short cited read. AskMed has no emergency medicine board question bank, so pair AskMed with the question bank your program or school uses and ask AskMed about the questions you miss. Paste a multiple-choice question with its options, and the first sentence of the answer names the correct option, then the answer explains why each other option is wrong, with a citation after each claim. For an evidence question, such as whether a newer approach beats the standard one, Research Mode analyzes up to 20 papers, lays out the key trials, meta-analyses and guideline positions, and says where the evidence is weak or conflicting. Source filters let you limit an answer to clinical guidelines or to meta-analyses and set how many sources it cites, from 3 to 12. - Review the shift. Write down the questions you couldn't answer during a shift, then ask them afterwards and open the guideline behind each answer. - Learn the scores from the paper. Each getaskmed.com calculator links to the study that defined it, so you can see where every cut-off comes from. - Prepare a journal club. Journal club preparation shows Research Mode used on one trial question. - Share with your team. Send a full answer with its sources to a colleague or classmate as text. Medical students have their own guide: best AI for medical students, and ED nurses can read best AI for nurses. ## How do you use AI safely in the emergency department? Emergency clinicians use AI safely by treating every answer as a lead to check, and by keeping AI out of the minutes when a patient needs action rather than reading. AskMed is a reference for education, not a symptom checker, and it does not diagnose patients or decide treatment, so in a resuscitation follow your department's protocols, life support algorithms and the senior clinician on duty. AI models can misread a source or state an outdated recommendation with confidence, so open the citation behind the sentence you will act on and check that it covers the same group of patients. Guidance does change: NICE replaced its 2016 sepsis guideline, NG51, with NG253 for people aged 16 or over in November 2025, so the year on a recommendation matters. Take doses only from the current label, your formulary or the ED's drug guide, and keep names and other identifying details out of any AI tool unless your employer has approved it for patient data. - Open the citation. In AskMed every claim is followed by its own link, and the source list labels each one as a Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference, so you know what kind of evidence it is before you open it. - Check the year and the country. UK EDs follow NICE guidance such as NG232 on head injury (May 2023), and local protocols can differ from national or overseas guidance. - Use Private Mode. With Private Mode on, new questions are not saved to AskMed's History. - Report what looks wrong. Tap the thumbs down under an answer and pick a reason, such as Inaccurate or Sources don't match, with an optional note. How AskMed answers lists every source AskMed searches and every limit, and best AI apps for doctors compares tools for clinical questions in general. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for emergency medicine? AskMed is the best AI for emergency medicine when you need an answer you can check in the gaps of a shift. It answers workup, guideline and drug questions from journals, guidelines and drug labels, links every claim to its source, gives the year of each guideline recommendation, and says so when it finds no source instead of answering from memory. It never gives doses. AskMed works in any country with no license or NPI, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. MDCalc is the deeper calculator library, OpenEvidence needs an NPI and is not available in the UK, EU or EEA, and UpToDate Expert AI needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. Q: Is there an AI app for emergency medicine residents? Yes. AskMed is built for residents as well as attending physicians, nurses, students, pharmacists and researchers. Residents use it to look up the questions a shift leaves open, to read the evidence behind a guideline with Research Mode, and to work through practice questions with a cited explanation of each option. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses for emergencies? No. AskMed explains what a drug is used for, how it works, safety, monitoring, side effects and interactions, but never gives amounts, rates or schedules, in an emergency or otherwise. Those come from the current prescribing information, your formulary or the ED's drug guide. Q: Can AskMed replace MDCalc? Not for calculators. getaskmed.com has web calculators for common ED scores such as HEART, Wells, PERC, qSOFA, GCS, ABCD2, Glasgow-Blatchford and CURB-65, but MDCalc's listing describes 900+ tools. Many clinicians use MDCalc for scores and AskMed for cited answers to the questions around them. Q: Is AskMed an AI scribe? No. AskMed does not listen to consultations or write clinical notes. It is an AI medical reference that answers questions with cited sources. AI scribes are a different category of tool. Q: Does AskMed work outside the US? Yes. AskMed works worldwide with no US license or NPI, searches NICE, ESC, WHO and other non-US guidance, checks national drug registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk for local brand names, and comes in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-cardiology Title: Best AI for Cardiology Questions | AskMed # Best AI for Cardiology: Cited Answers on the Heart Our pick first, then the other tools cardiologists, fellows, cardiac nurses and students weigh for questions on heart failure, arrhythmia, coronary disease and blood pressure. Updated 8 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for cardiology questions. It answers from cardiology journals, ESC and other guidelines and drug labels, links every claim to its source, and works for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers worldwide. Answers from | Journals, clinical guidelines, drug labels and clinical references Sources for the heart | The American Heart Association journals, including Circulation, the JACC journals, the ESC, NEJM, The Lancet, PubMed and the Cochrane Library Citations | A link after every claim; 8 sources per answer by default, 3–12 if you change it Guidelines | The year of each recommendation, and what changed when guidance was updated No source found | Says so, never answers from memory ECGs | The tracing is not interpreted; printed text in an image is read Doses | Never Built for | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students, researchers Where | Worldwide, no US license or NPI needed Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## Which AI tools answer cardiology questions? This guide compares the AI tools that cardiologists, fellows, residents, cardiac nurses and students weigh for heart questions, and each one does a different job. AskMed is an AI medical reference that answers questions on heart failure, arrhythmia, coronary disease and hypertension from journals, guidelines and drug labels, with a link after every claim, for anyone in medicine in any country. OpenEvidence is a clinical AI search engine for verified healthcare professionals; its App Store listing says an NPI is required and names a content agreement with the American College of Cardiology. UpToDate Expert AI is Wolters Kluwer's AI companion to UpToDate and needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. ESC Chat is the European Society of Cardiology's chatbot and answers from ESC guidelines only. ChatGPT is OpenAI's general chatbot. AI scribes that write clinic letters are a different category and are left out. The table shows what each tool is, where its answers come from and who can use it. Tool | Type | Answers from | Who can use it AskMed | AI medical reference | Journals including the AHA and JACC journals, ESC and other guidelines, drug labels and references, with a link after every claim | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, worldwide; no NPI OpenEvidence | Clinical AI search | Peer-reviewed literature; partners include NEJM and JAMA; content agreement with the American College of Cardiology | Verified healthcare professionals; NPI required, per its App Store listing; not available in the UK, EU or EEA, per its Terms UpToDate Expert AI | AI companion to UpToDate | UpToDate content, with answers linked to supporting sources | Holders of an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled ESC Chat | Guideline chatbot | Current ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines only, with citations to the full texts | Medical professionals; sign-in required on the ESC website ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Not limited to medical sources | Anyone ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence describes itself as a clinical decision support tool and medical search engine. Its US App Store listing names NEJM, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, NCCN, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley as official partners, and lists content agreements with medical societies, among them the American College of Cardiology. The listing marks an NPI as required, says users must verify their healthcare professional status, and says the app contains advertising. OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is not available in the European Union, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, so cardiology teams there need another tool. AskMed vs OpenEvidence compares the two in detail. ### UpToDate Expert AI UpToDate Expert AI is Wolters Kluwer's AI-powered companion to the UpToDate clinical reference. Its App Store listing says answers are grounded in UpToDate content and linked to supporting sources, and that access needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled, through an enterprise account or a personal subscription. It suits clinicians whose hospital already uses UpToDate. AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI compares the two side by side. ### ESC Chat ESC Chat is the European Society of Cardiology's AI chatbot. Its App Store listing says answers are based exclusively on current ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines, with citations and reference links to the full texts, and that it is intended for medical professionals. The ESC's page calls it a CE-marked Class I medical device, asks you to sign in, and says it understands questions in several languages but answers in English only. The ESC says Bristol Myers Squibb and Novartis fund it independently and had no influence on its content. Because ESC Chat answers only from ESC guidelines, questions about ACC/AHA guidance or trials outside the guidelines need another tool. ### ChatGPT ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot, on the web, iPhone and Android. It helps to talk a mechanism through or draft a patient leaflet, but it is not limited to medical sources, so check any clinical claim against a guideline first. OpenAI also runs ChatGPT for Clinicians, which its help center opens to verified US clinicians with an NPI and a license check. Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? covers what studies found. ### Guideline apps without AI Many cardiology clinicians keep a society guideline app next to their AI tool. The ACC Guideline Clinical App's US App Store listing names 21 ACC guidelines, from atrial fibrillation and heart failure to valvular heart disease, with risk scores and algorithms, as an educational service for licensed health care professionals. The ESC Pocket Guidelines app holds ESC guidelines and documents published from 2023 to 2025, with interactive algorithms. Neither listing describes an AI chat feature: they are for reading the guideline itself, which is also where an AI answer should lead you. ## How does AskMed answer a cardiology question? AskMed answers a cardiology question in four steps, and you can check each one. First, AskMed rewrites the question as a precise medical search query, and for management questions it adds "latest guideline update" so the newest guidance is found. Second, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, never the open web or forums; for the heart, that list includes the American Heart Association's journals, which publish Circulation, the JACC journals, the European Society of Cardiology, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, The BMJ, PubMed and the Cochrane Library, plus FDA and DailyMed drug labels. Third, AskMed ranks what it found: guidelines and health agencies first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then reviews and references, then large trials, preferring work from the last 10 years. Fourth, an AI language model writes the answer with a link after every claim, gives the year of each guideline recommendation and says so when sources disagree. If no usable source turns up, AskMed says that instead of answering from memory. - You ask. One question, with the patient group and setting, for example "HFrEF, outpatient, which drug classes do guidelines recommend?" - AskMed searches. AHA journals, JACC, the ESC, NEJM, The Lancet, PubMed, the Cochrane Library and drug labels, never forums. - AskMed ranks. Guidelines first, then systematic reviews and meta-analyses, then reviews, then large trials. - The answer cites. A link after every claim and the year of each guideline recommendation, with no doses. - You check. Open the citation behind the sentence you will act on, and see whose guideline it is. How a cardiology question becomes a cited AskMed answer. If no usable source is found, AskMed says so. Joint ACC/AHA guidelines appear in both Circulation and JACC: the 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA heart failure guideline, for example, was published in Circulation and in JACC. ESC guidelines appear in the European Heart Journal and on the ESC website. How AskMed answers lists every source. ## Can AI answer questions on heart failure, arrhythmia and hypertension? AI can answer most questions on heart failure, arrhythmia, coronary disease and hypertension well when it works from current guidelines and trials, because these conditions have detailed published guidance on diagnosis and treatment. AskMed explains how a condition is classified, which tests come first, which drug classes the guidelines recommend, what to monitor and which side effects matter, with a source after each point. It never gives doses, titration schedules or how often to take a drug, so the amounts come from the current label and the treating clinician. US and European guidance does not always agree, for example on blood pressure definitions and targets, so AskMed names the society and the year behind each recommendation and says what changed when guidance was updated. For evidence questions such as "Do SGLT2 inhibitors help in heart failure?", Research Mode finds studies, ranks study quality and reads the most relevant paper in full before it writes the answer. - Heart failure. Classification by ejection fraction, the recommended drug classes, monitoring of kidney function and potassium, and when devices are considered. - Atrial fibrillation. Stroke and bleeding risk, rate versus rhythm control and the choice of anticoagulant, with the CHA₂DS₂-VASc and HAS-BLED calculators on getaskmed.com. - Chest pain and coronary disease. Risk stratification, the first tests and when to refer, with the HEART score calculator for emergency department chest pain. - Hypertension. Definitions, targets and first-line drug classes by society and year, without doses. - Valve disease. Severity grading, follow-up and when intervention is considered, each claim linked to its source. ## Can AI read an ECG? AskMed cannot read an ECG tracing. AskMed reads attached images for their printed text only, so a photo of a 12-lead ECG gives AskMed the words and numbers printed on it, such as the machine's measured intervals or its printed statement, but not the waveform itself. The useful way to ask AskMed about an ECG is to describe it in words: rate, rhythm, axis, PR, QRS and QT intervals, ST-segment and T-wave changes and the leads involved, together with the clinical picture. AskMed then gives a cited differential and the next step for each cause, from the guidelines and reviews behind them. For the corrected QT, the QTc calculator on getaskmed.com shows Bazett, Fridericia, Framingham and Hodges at once, built from the original papers. Software that interprets ECG waveforms is a separate category of tool and is not covered here, and any tracing that worries you needs a clinician to read it. - Describe, then ask. "Narrow-complex tachycardia, regular, rate about 180: differential and first steps?" - Add the patient. Age, symptoms, haemodynamic state, known heart disease and current medicines. - Attach the report, not the picture. A discharge letter or echo report as a PDF gives AskMed text it can use; attachments explains what is read. ## What should cardiology fellows, nurses and students look for in an AI? Cardiology fellows, residents, cardiac nurses and students need an AI tool whose answers can be checked in seconds and that shows whose guidance it is quoting. Four checks matter. First, citations: each claim should link to the guideline, trial or drug label behind it, not to a reading list at the end. Second, guidance from both sides of the Atlantic: the tool should name ACC/AHA or ESC, give the year, and say when a recommendation has changed. Third, sign-up: OpenEvidence's App Store listing says an NPI is required, its Terms exclude the UK, EU and EEA, and UpToDate Expert AI needs an UpToDate subscription with Expert AI enabled. Fourth, advertising: OpenEvidence's listing says the app contains ads, while AskMed carries no pharma advertising or sponsorship. AskMed meets all four for anyone in medicine: a link after every claim, the year of every guideline recommendation, and no NPI or license needed to sign up, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. - Fellows and residents. Research Mode for journal club and for "why did this guideline change?" questions on rounds. - Cardiac nurses. What to monitor on a heart failure or rhythm drug, and the side effects to report, with sources. - Students. Paste an exam-style question with its options: the first sentence names the correct option and the answer explains why each other option is wrong. - Pharmacists and researchers. Interactions between named cardiac drugs without doses, and where the trial evidence agrees or conflicts. ## What are the limits of AI for cardiology? The main limit of AI for cardiology is that an answer can only be as good as its sources and the question it was given, and heart care moves fast, with new trials and guideline updates every year. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sites, so evidence published only elsewhere may not appear, and every AskMed answer is written by an AI language model that can misread a source or leave something out; no person reviews it before you see it. Open the citation behind any sentence you act on and check that it covers the same patients, since a trial in chronic heart failure does not answer a question about acute decompensation. ACC/AHA and ESC guidance can differ, so follow the society that applies where you practise. AskMed is for education and reference by healthcare professionals and students, not for emergencies or for patients' self-diagnosis, and it gives no doses: take those from the current label or your local formulary. - Check the source. Every AskMed claim has its own link, so you check one sentence against one page. - Check the year. A current guideline outweighs an older review, and AskMed gives the year of each recommendation. - Report what looks wrong. Tap the thumbs down under an AskMed answer and pick a reason, such as Inaccurate or Sources don't match. Best AI apps for doctors compares tools for clinical questions in general, and best AI for medical literature search covers tools for finding papers. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for cardiology? AskMed is the best AI for cardiology questions when you need an answer you can check. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, including the American Heart Association journals, the JACC journals, the European Society of Cardiology, NEJM, The Lancet, PubMed and the Cochrane Library, then writes an answer with a link after every claim and the year of each guideline recommendation. If it finds no usable source, it says so instead of answering from memory, and it never gives doses. AskMed is built for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, works worldwide without an NPI, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. OpenEvidence serves verified healthcare professionals with an NPI, UpToDate Expert AI answers from UpToDate content, and ESC Chat answers from ESC guidelines only. Q: Does AskMed use ACC/AHA and ESC guidelines? Yes. AskMed searches the American Heart Association journals, including Circulation, and the JACC journals, where joint ACC/AHA guidelines are published, and the European Society of Cardiology. Each recommendation comes with its year, and the answer says so when sources disagree. Q: Can AskMed read an ECG? No. AskMed reads attached images for their printed text only, so it cannot interpret the tracing. Describe the rate, rhythm, axis, intervals and ST changes in words, and AskMed gives a cited differential and next steps. Q: Can I use OpenEvidence for cardiology outside the US? OpenEvidence's Terms of Use say the service is not available in the UK, EU or EEA, and its App Store listing says an NPI is required. AskMed works in any country with no NPI or license. Q: Does AskMed give doses for heart medicines? No. AskMed explains what a heart medicine is for, how it works, how it is chosen, what to monitor and its side effects, but never gives doses or schedules. Those come from the current label and the treating clinician. Q: Is AskMed only for cardiologists? No. AskMed is built for doctors in any specialty, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-pharmacists Title: Best AI for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Students | AskMed # Best AI for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Students Our pick first, then five other tools pharmacists use for drug information, and how to study pharmacology with AI. Updated 7 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for pharmacists and pharmacy students: every drug answer links each claim to a drug label, guideline or journal, so you can check it before you counsel a patient or reply to a prescriber. Answers | Cited from journals, guidelines and drug labels, a link after every claim Drug labels | FDA and DailyMed, plus national registries such as the EMA and medicines.org.uk for local brands Drug answers | Class, mechanism, uses, adverse effects, interacting drugs, contraindications, monitoring Source filters | Drug labels, guidelines, journals or references on or off; 3–12 sources per answer Research Mode | Finds studies and reads the most relevant one in full Files | Attach a PDF or image, such as a medication list or lecture notes Doses | Never Sign-up | Works worldwide, no NPI or licence needed Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## Which AI tools do pharmacists use? Pharmacists looking for the best AI tools for drug information choose between curated drug databases and AI assistants that write an answer. AskMed is an AI medical reference that answers drug questions from FDA and DailyMed labels, national drug registries, guidelines and journals, with a link after every claim. UpToDate Lexidrug is a drug reference app with monographs, an interactions checker and medical calculators, and Wolters Kluwer has added its drug content to UpToDate Expert AI. Micromedex, from Merative, is a clinical decision support system for drug information, interactions, toxicology and IV compatibility, with an AI-powered search. Epocrates is a drug reference app with more than 6,000 monographs, an interaction checker and a pill identifier. OpenEvidence is a clinical AI search engine for verified healthcare professionals, and ChatGPT for Clinicians is OpenAI's version of ChatGPT for verified US clinicians, pharmacists included. The table shows what each tool is, its drug content and who can use it. Tool | Type | Drug content | Who can use it AskMed | AI medical reference | Cited answers from FDA and DailyMed labels, national registries, guidelines and journals; no doses | Pharmacists, students, doctors, nurses and researchers worldwide; no NPI UpToDate Lexidrug | Drug database app | Monographs with adverse reactions, interactions checker, calculators, offline storage | Pharmacists, physicians, nurses, dentists and students, per its App Store listing Micromedex | Clinical decision support | Drug information, interactions, toxicology, IV compatibility; AI-powered search | Authorized users at subscribing hospitals, health systems, pharmacies and academic institutions Epocrates | Drug reference app | 6,000+ Rx and OTC monographs, interaction checker for up to 30 drugs, pill identifier | US physicians, NPs, PAs, pharmacists and medical students OpenEvidence | Clinical AI search | Cited answers from peer-reviewed literature plus FDA and CDC sources | Verified healthcare professionals, NPI required; pharmacists not stated ChatGPT for Clinicians | General AI set up for clinicians | Clinical search over studies and guidelines, with citations; deep research | Verified US physicians, NPs, PAs and pharmacists with an NPI and a license ### UpToDate Lexidrug UpToDate Lexidrug, sold on the App Store by Lexi-Comp, is Wolters Kluwer's drug reference app. Its listing describes in-depth drug databases, monographs with adverse reaction information, hundreds of medical calculators, an interactive drug interactions checker and offline storage, with content updated daily by an editorial team, and says it is used by pharmacists, physicians, nurses, advanced practice nurses, dentists and students. In November 2025 Wolters Kluwer announced that Lexidrug's drug content, about 3,000 drug topics written by its pharmacists and clinical experts, had been added to UpToDate Expert AI. AskMed vs UpToDate Expert AI compares the two. ### Micromedex Micromedex is Merative's evidence-based clinical decision support system. Its site says it is used by pharmacists, physicians, nurses and toxicologists, and by 46 of the top 50 US health systems, and that it covers drug information, drug interactions, toxicology resources and IV compatibility. Its AI-powered search is described as purpose-built for drug content: it answers drug and toxicology questions from Micromedex's curated drug content, shows its underlying logic and flags high-risk questions. Access comes through an organization, such as a hospital, health system, pharmacy or academic institution. ### Epocrates Epocrates calls itself, on the App Store, the clinical reference app for US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician associates, pharmacists and medical students. It lists more than 6,000 prescription and over-the-counter monographs, an interaction checker for up to 30 medications at once, a pill identifier that works from imprint, shape, color or an image, lab reference values, a herbs and supplements database and offline access. Its App Store description does not mention an AI assistant. ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence's App Store listing calls it a clinical decision support platform and medical search engine for healthcare professionals, NPI required, and says users must verify their healthcare professional status. Answers are cited and grounded in peer-reviewed literature, drawn from more than 35 million papers and 300 journals plus FDA and CDC sources, with partners including NEJM, JAMA and the Cochrane Library. The listing does not mention pharmacists or students. AskMed vs OpenEvidence covers where it is available. ### ChatGPT for Clinicians and ChatGPT ChatGPT for Clinicians is a version of ChatGPT that OpenAI launched in April 2026. OpenAI's help center says it is for verified clinicians in the United States, namely physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists with a valid NPI and a license a third-party provider can verify, and that OpenAI plans to add more countries over time. Without that verification, pharmacy students and pharmacists elsewhere can use the general ChatGPT, whose study mode works through a topic with hints and quizzes. The general ChatGPT is not limited to medical sources, so check every drug claim against the label. ## What drug questions can AI answer for pharmacists? An AI tool that cites its sources can answer most drug-information questions that reach a pharmacist, as long as each answer links to a label, guideline or paper you can open. For any drug question, AskMed is instructed to cover the drug's class, mechanism, uses, common and serious adverse effects, named interacting drugs, contraindications and monitoring, and it searches FDA and DailyMed labels before it writes. For a brand name it cannot identify with certainty, often a medicine bought in another country, AskMed searches official drug registries such as the EMA, the UK's medicines.org.uk, Japan's PMDA and Australia's TGA, then cites the page that lists the active ingredients or says plainly that no page lists the product. Guideline answers give the year of each recommendation and what changed. AskMed never gives doses: asked for one, it explains how dosing is chosen and adjusted, for kidney or liver function, age, weight or interactions, without numbers, and points to the prescribing information. - Mechanisms. "How does sacubitril work, and why is it combined with valsartan?" The answer runs from the molecular target to the clinical effect, with a source for each step. - Adverse effects and counselling. "Which adverse effects of SGLT2 inhibitors should patients know about, and what does the label say about ketoacidosis?" Add "explain this for the patient in plain words" as a follow-up and the topic and sources carry over. - Interactions. "Why does rifampicin reduce the effect of hormonal contraceptives?" AskMed explains the enzyme or transporter involved and what the labels say. For a whole medication list, use a dedicated checker too: using AI to check drug interactions safely sets out the routine. - Guidelines. "What does the latest KDIGO guideline say about SGLT2 inhibitors in chronic kidney disease?" Turn on only guidelines in the source filters when you want the guideline view. - Pregnancy and lactation. "What does the label say about use while breastfeeding?" Turn on only drug labels to keep the answer to the label itself. ## Where does each answer sit in a drug label? Every drug label is laid out in numbered sections, so a pharmacist checking an AI answer can go straight to the part that supports it. In the US, the full prescribing information follows the order set by FDA regulation 21 CFR 201.57: contraindications are section 4, warnings and precautions section 5, adverse reactions section 6, drug interactions section 7, use in specific populations, including pregnancy and lactation, section 8, and clinical pharmacology section 12, with mechanism of action at 12.1 and pharmacokinetics at 12.3. In the UK and the EU, the Summary of Product Characteristics follows the European Medicines Agency's QRD template: contraindications are 4.3, special warnings 4.4, interactions 4.5, fertility, pregnancy and lactation 4.6, undesirable effects 4.8, pharmacodynamic properties 5.1 and pharmacokinetic properties 5.2. An AskMed citation labelled Drug label links to the exact DailyMed or FDA page it came from, so you can open it and find the matching section. Where each topic sits in a US prescribing information (21 CFR 201.57) and a UK or EU Summary of Product Characteristics (EMA QRD template). ## How can pharmacy students use AI to study? Pharmacy students get the most from AI when they use it to explain and test, not to copy answers. Pharmacology is a chain of reasoning: a drug's mechanism explains its effects, many of its adverse effects and some of its interactions, and its pharmacokinetics explain why kidney or liver disease changes how it is used. AskMed answers a mechanism question with that chain, from the molecular target to the clinical effect, and each step links to a source such as StatPearls, a review article or the drug label. Paste a multiple-choice question with its options and the first sentence names the correct option, then the answer explains why each other option is wrong. For journal club and drug-information assignments, Research Mode finds studies, reads the most relevant one in full and lays out the trials, meta-analyses and guideline positions. A short follow-up such as "and in pregnancy?" is read with the previous question, so one topic can be explored step by step. - Compare drugs in a class. Ask for two drugs side by side and AskMed lays out mechanism, efficacy with the key trials, harms, monitoring and when each is preferred. - Bring your own material. Attach lecture slides or a PDF and AskMed cites your file for what the file says, and a published source for everything else. - Practise counselling. After a drug answer, ask for the key points in plain words, then say them aloud as you would at the counter. - Recall, then check. Close the app and write the mechanism from memory, then open the answer and its sources to see what you missed. ## How do you check an AI answer about a drug? Checking an AI answer about a drug means matching each claim you will act on to the source behind it, and for drug facts that source is usually the current label. Open the citation after the sentence, confirm that the page covers the same product, formulation and country, and find the matching section: an interaction belongs in section 7 of a US label or section 4.5 of an SmPC, a contraindication in section 4 or 4.3. Look at the date, because labels and guidelines are revised, and AskMed gives the year of every guideline recommendation it states. Run whole medication lists through a dedicated interaction database, because AskMed explains interactions but does not screen a list automatically. Take every dose from the current prescribing information or your formulary. If an AskMed citation doesn't say what the sentence says, tap the thumbs down under the answer and choose "Sources don't match", so the problem is reported with the answer it came from. - Keep patient details out. Ask about the drug and the clinical picture, never a patient's name or other identifying details. Private Mode keeps new questions out of your History. - Follow your country's guidance. Drug approvals and guidelines differ between countries, so say where you practise and use the local label or SmPC. - Know the limits. AskMed is a reference for education, written by AI with no human review before you see it. How AskMed answers sets out its sources and limits in full. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for pharmacists? AskMed is the best AI app for pharmacists who want cited answers to drug questions. It searches FDA and DailyMed labels, national drug registries, guidelines and journals before it writes, covers a drug's class, mechanism, uses, adverse effects, interactions, contraindications and monitoring, and links every claim to its source. It works worldwide without an NPI, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Curated databases such as UpToDate Lexidrug and Micromedex remain the tools for screening whole medication lists, so use one alongside AskMed. Q: What is the best AI for pharmacy students? AskMed suits pharmacy students because it explains mechanisms, pharmacokinetics and drug comparisons step by step, with a source after every claim, and explains every option of a pasted multiple-choice question. Research Mode helps with journal club and drug-information assignments. AskMed needs no licence or NPI. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives doses, dose calculations or schedules. It explains how dosing is chosen and adjusted, for kidney or liver function, age, weight or interactions, without numbers. Exact dosing comes from the current prescribing information and the prescriber. Q: Is AskMed a drug interaction checker? Not a dedicated one. AskMed explains an interaction's mechanism, label wording, monitoring and alternatives with sources, but it does not screen a whole medication list. Use it alongside an interaction database. Q: Can pharmacists outside the US use AskMed? Yes. AskMed works worldwide without an NPI or US licence, looks up local brand names in national drug registries, and is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. Q: Which devices does AskMed work on? iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. One account works on all of them, at the dispensary computer or on your phone. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-dermatology Title: Best AI for Dermatology Questions | AskMed # Best AI for Dermatology: Cited Answers on Skin Our pick first, then five other tools for questions about acne, eczema, psoriasis, rashes and cosmetic procedures. Updated 7 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for dermatology questions. It answers from journals, guidelines and clinical references, links every claim to its source, and works for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers worldwide. Answers from | Journals, clinical guidelines, drug labels and clinical references Citations | A link after every claim; 8 sources per answer by default, 3–12 if you change it Sources for skin | PubMed, the Cochrane Library, the JAMA Network, NICE, StatPearls, BMJ Best Practice, the MSD Manual No source found | Says so, never answers from memory Photos | Not analysed; an attached image is read for its text only Doses | Never Built for | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students, researchers Where | Worldwide, no US license or NPI needed Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## Which AI tools answer dermatology questions? This guide compares six tools for dermatology questions, and each one does a different job. AskMed is an AI medical reference that answers questions about acne, eczema, psoriasis, rashes and cosmetic procedures from journals, guidelines and clinical references, with a link after every claim, for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers in any country. OpenEvidence is a clinical AI search engine for verified healthcare professionals, and its App Store listing says an NPI is required. DermGPT is an AI language model focused on dermatology, founded by a board-certified dermatologist. VisualDx is a visual clinical decision support system built around more than 50,000 clinical images. DermNet is a dermatology reference website with more than 2,500 skin topics, not an AI chatbot. ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot and is not limited to medical sources. AI scribes that write clinic notes are a different category and are left out. The table compares what each tool is, where its content comes from and who can use it. Tool | Type | Content from | Who can use it AskMed | AI medical reference | Journals, guidelines, drug labels and references, with a link after every claim | Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, worldwide; no NPI OpenEvidence | Clinical AI search | Peer-reviewed literature; partners include NEJM, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, and the Cochrane Library | Verified healthcare professionals; NPI required, per its App Store listing DermGPT | Dermatology AI model | 60,000 peer-reviewed dermatology articles, per its website | Not stated VisualDx | Visual decision support | 50,000+ clinical images; condition pages written and maintained by clinicians | Licensed to health systems, practices and individual clinicians DermNet | Dermatology reference website | 2,500+ skin topics and 25,000 clinical images, reviewed by dermatologists | Public website; DermNet PRO for healthcare professionals ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Not limited to medical sources | Anyone ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence describes itself as a clinical decision support platform and medical search engine for healthcare professionals. Its App Store listing names NEJM, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley as official partners, lists content agreements with medical societies, marks an NPI as required and says the app contains advertising. Its Terms of Use say the service is not available in the United Kingdom, the European Union or the European Economic Area, so clinicians there need another tool. AskMed vs OpenEvidence compares the two in detail. ### DermGPT DermGPT is an AI language model focused on dermatology, founded by Dr. Fara Kamangar, a board-certified dermatologist in Palo Alto. Its website lists access to 60,000 peer-reviewed dermatology articles and a Prior Authorization Suite that drafts documentation for payer requirements, and it offers a web app and an iOS app. DermGPT's terms say it is not a HIPAA-covered entity and that protected health information must not be submitted. Its website does not state who can sign up or how answers are cited. ### VisualDx VisualDx is a visual clinical decision support system with more than 50,000 clinical images across skin tones and body sites. Its differential diagnosis builder ranks possible diagnoses from the findings and patient context you enter, and its condition pages are written and maintained by clinicians. VisualDx's website also mentions AI-driven image analysis and CME with every use. It is licensed to hospitals, health systems, practices and individual clinicians. ### DermNet DermNet is a dermatology reference website with more than 2,500 skin topics and 25,000 clinical images, reviewed by dermatologists, plus a student resource centre and DermNet PRO for healthcare professionals. DermNet is a place to read and compare images rather than an AI chatbot, and a useful place to check what an AI answer says about a condition. ### ChatGPT ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot, on the web, iPhone and Android. It is useful for explaining a mechanism or drafting a patient leaflet, but it is not limited to medical sources, so check any clinical claim against a guideline or reference first. Is ChatGPT accurate for medical questions? covers what studies found. ## How should you ask an AI a skin question? The way to get a useful AI answer about a skin problem is to describe the lesion in words, because the description is what narrows the differential. Name the primary lesion (macule, papule, plaque, vesicle, pustule or nodule), its colour and scale, its shape and configuration, such as annular or linear, where it is on the body, how long it has been there, whether it itches or hurts, and any systemic features such as fever. Add the patient context that changes the answer: age, pregnancy, immune status, new medicines and your country, since guidelines and drug approvals differ. AskMed does not look at photos. An image you attach is read for its printed text only, so a photo of a rash gives AskMed nothing to work with, while a photo of a referral letter or lab report does. Ask one clear question at a time, then use follow-ups such as "and in a child?" to narrow it down. - Describe the lesion. Primary lesion, colour, scale and configuration, for example "annular scaly plaque with central clearing". - Say where and how long. Distribution, duration, itch or pain, and systemic features such as fever. - Add the patient. Age, pregnancy, immune status, new medicines and your country. - Ask one question. "Differential with the can't-miss causes first", or "first-line options by severity". - Open the citation. Check the sentence you will act on against its source and the guideline's year. Five steps to a skin question an AI can answer with sources. AskMed reads the words, not the picture. A rash differential with sources walks through one example, and attachments explains what AskMed reads from a PDF or image. ## Can AI answer questions about acne, eczema and psoriasis? AI can answer most questions about acne, eczema and psoriasis well when it works from current guidelines and reviews, because these conditions have published guidance on assessment and treatment. AskMed searches NICE, the Cochrane Library, PubMed and journals such as those on the JAMA Network, which publishes JAMA Dermatology, along with StatPearls, BMJ Best Practice and the MSD Manual for professionals. NICE has guidelines on acne vulgaris management, psoriasis assessment and management and atopic eczema in under 12s. For management questions, AskMed adds "latest guideline update" to its search, ranks guidelines first, gives the year of each recommendation and says what changed when guidance has been updated. It names first-line and alternative options and how they are chosen by severity, monitoring and side effects, but it never gives doses or schedules. A pharmacist asking about a topical retinoid in pregnancy or a nurse asking about emollient use gets the reasoning with a source for each point. - Acne. Severity grading, first-line topical and oral options, when to refer, and the safety rules around isotretinoin, each linked to its source. - Eczema. Triggers, emollients, topical treatment by severity and signs of infection, with the guideline that applies in your country. - Psoriasis. Severity measures such as PASI and DLQI, screening for psoriatic arthritis, and when systemic or biologic therapy is considered. - Rashes. A differential with the features that separate each cause and the first test, such as skin scrapings or a biopsy. ## Can AI help with cosmetic procedure questions? AI can help with cosmetic procedure questions about evidence, safety and complications, such as how hyaluronic acid fillers, botulinum toxin, chemical peels and lasers work, what the trials show, and which complications to recognise early. AskMed answers these from journals, reviews and drug labels, with a link after every claim, so a clinician can check a statement about vascular occlusion after filler, or about the boxed warning on a botulinum toxin label, against its source. The same rules apply as for any other medicine: AskMed never states doses, and botulinum toxin units count as doses, so an answer explains how the amount is chosen in general terms and leaves the numbers to the product label and the treating clinician. AskMed does not assess a patient's photos before or after a procedure. If the evidence on a newer technique is thin, the answer says so rather than filling the gap with weak sources, and Research Mode can read up to 20 papers on one question. - Complications. Recognition and management principles for filler and toxin complications, with the reviews behind them. - Evidence. What trials and systematic reviews show for a procedure, and how strong that evidence is. - Labels. FDA and DailyMed labels for approved products, without amounts or schedules. ## What are the limits of AI for dermatology? The main limit of AI for dermatology is that diagnosis in skin depends on seeing the lesion, and a text answer can only work from the description it is given. AskMed reads words, not pictures, so it cannot tell you what a lesion is from a photo, and it is not a symptom checker for patients. Every AskMed answer is written by an AI language model from the sources its search found, and no person reviews it before you see it, so open the citation behind any sentence you act on and check that it is about the same group of patients. Sources can disagree and guidance differs between countries, so look for the source that covers the patient in front of you and the country where you practise. Keep names and other identifying details out of any AI tool unless you are allowed to share them, and take doses only from the current label or your local formulary. - Check the source. Every AskMed claim has its own link, so you check one sentence against one page. - Refer when it matters. A changing pigmented lesion or a rash with systemic illness needs examination, not a chat. - Report what looks wrong. Tap the thumbs down under an AskMed answer and pick a reason, such as Inaccurate or Sources don't match. How AskMed answers lists every source and limit, and best AI apps for doctors compares tools for clinical questions in general. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for dermatology questions? AskMed is the best AI for dermatology questions when you need an answer you can check. AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources, including PubMed, the Cochrane Library, the JAMA Network, NICE, StatPearls, BMJ Best Practice and the MSD Manual, then writes an answer with a link after every claim. If it finds no usable source, it says so instead of answering from memory. It covers acne, eczema, psoriasis, rashes and cosmetic procedures, gives the year of each guideline recommendation, and never gives doses. AskMed is built for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, students and researchers, works worldwide without an NPI, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Other tools do other jobs: OpenEvidence serves verified US healthcare professionals, DermGPT focuses on dermatology workflows, VisualDx is built around clinical images, and DermNet is a reference website. AskMed does not analyse photos, so describe the lesion in words. Q: Can AskMed diagnose a rash from a photo? No. AskMed reads attached images for their printed text only, so it cannot interpret a photo of the skin. Describe the lesion, its distribution and the history in words, and AskMed gives a cited differential and the first test for each cause. Q: Is AskMed only for dermatologists? No. AskMed is built for doctors in any specialty, including GPs, and for nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers. It needs no medical license or NPI. Q: Does AskMed answer questions about Botox and fillers? Yes, about how they work, the evidence, safety and complications, with a source for each claim. AskMed never gives doses, and that includes botulinum toxin units. Q: Which dermatology guidelines does AskMed use? AskMed searches NICE, WHO and other guideline bodies, plus journals, the Cochrane Library and clinical references such as StatPearls and BMJ Best Practice. Each guideline recommendation comes with its year. Q: Which devices does AskMed work on? iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. One account works on all of them, and the app comes in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-for-nurses Title: Best AI for Nurses and Nursing Students | AskMed # Best AI for Nurses and Nursing Students Our pick first, then six tools that nurses, nurse practitioners and nursing students use for cited clinical answers and for study. Updated 7 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for nurses and nursing students: it answers care, drug and guideline questions from journals, guidelines and drug labels, links every claim to its source, and needs no NPI. Answers | Cited from journals, guidelines and drug labels, a link after every claim Drugs | Uses, mechanism, monitoring, side effects and interactions; never doses Devices | Catheter, tube and airway sizes, ventilator and chest drain settings, when the sources state them No source found | Says so, never answers from memory Files | Attach a PDF, image or pasted note to a question Built for | Nurses, nurse practitioners, students, doctors, pharmacists, researchers Where | Worldwide, no license or NPI needed Runs on | iPhone, iPad, Android, web; 7 languages ## Which AI tools do nurses and nursing students use? Nurses, nurse practitioners and nursing students mostly reach for seven AI tools, and each one does a different job. AskMed answers clinical questions from journals, guidelines and drug labels, with a link after every claim, for anyone who works or studies in medicine in any country. OpenEvidence is a clinical search engine for healthcare professionals, and its App Store listing says an NPI is required. ChatGPT for Clinicians is OpenAI's workspace for verified US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists. The general ChatGPT app helps you talk a topic through, but it is not limited to medical sources. UWorld, Lecturio and Osmosis are NCLEX prep platforms: UWorld and Lecturio each name an AI tutor, and the Osmosis nursing app lists more than 4,500 NCLEX-RN practice questions. AI scribes that write charting notes are a separate category and are not covered here. The table shows who each tool is for, where its answers come from and its NCLEX questions. Tool | Who it's for | Answers or AI | NCLEX questions AskMed | Nurses, NPs, students, doctors, pharmacists and researchers, worldwide; no NPI | Journals, guidelines and drug labels, a link after every claim | None OpenEvidence | Verified healthcare professionals; NPI required (App Store) | Peer-reviewed literature plus FDA and CDC sources, every claim cited | Not stated ChatGPT for Clinicians | Verified US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists | Cited answers with each source's title, journal and date | Not stated ChatGPT | Anyone | General model, not limited to medical sources; study mode | None UWorld Nursing | NCLEX-RN, NCLEX-PN and FNP candidates | UAsk, an AI NCLEX tutor in lessons and practice | 3,100+ NCLEX-RN, including 600+ NGN Lecturio Nursing | Nursing students; NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN prep | AI tutor and AI Assistant on the Premium plan | Qbank on Premium; number not stated Osmosis Nursing | RN, PN and nurse practitioner learners | Not stated in its App Store listing | 4,500+ NCLEX-RN and 900+ NCLEX-PN style ### OpenEvidence OpenEvidence calls itself a clinical decision support platform and medical search engine. Its US App Store listing says it is available only to healthcare professionals, that an NPI is required and that users must verify their healthcare professional status first. It names NEJM, JAMA and its 11 specialty journals, NCCN, Nature, the Cochrane Library and Wiley as official partners, describes 35 million+ peer-reviewed papers plus FDA and CDC sources, and cites every claim. The listing does not say which nursing roles qualify, so check at sign-up, especially outside the US. ### ChatGPT for Clinicians OpenAI's help center lists physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists in the United States as eligible for ChatGPT for Clinicians, verified with an NPI and a license check. Responses cite their sources with title, journal and publication date. Registered nurses and students are not on that list, so it suits US nurse practitioners most. ### ChatGPT ChatGPT is OpenAI's general AI chatbot. Its study mode, on the web, iOS and Android, works through a topic with questions, step-by-step guidance and knowledge checks, which suits quizzing yourself on your own lecture notes. ChatGPT is not limited to medical sources and has no NCLEX question bank, so check any clinical claim against a guideline, textbook or drug label. ### UWorld Nursing UWorld's NCLEX-RN page lists 3,100+ questions, including 600+ Next Generation NCLEX (NGN) items, with visual rationales for correct and incorrect answers, adaptive (CAT) practice tests and up to six 100-question self-assessments that give a probability of passing. UAsk, its AI NCLEX tutor, explains inside lessons and practice sessions. UWorld Nursing also covers NCLEX-PN and FNP prep, with apps on the App Store and Google Play. ### Lecturio Nursing Lecturio Nursing is a video library for nursing school courses with NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN prep. Its Premium plan adds a question bank with an AI tutor and performance tracking, plus an AI Assistant. Lecturio says its practice exams use partial credit scoring based on the latest NCSBN standards. Its website does not give the number of questions. ### Osmosis Nursing The Osmosis - Nursing Exam Prep app's App Store listing describes 4,500+ NCLEX-RN practice questions, including Next-Gen NCLEX, and 900+ NCLEX-PN style questions with detailed rationales, 1,100+ nursing videos, and 2,300+ nurse practitioner videos with 2,700+ preclinical and board-style questions. Videos can be downloaded for offline study. The listing does not mention AI features. ## What can AskMed answer for nurses? AskMed answers the clinical questions nurses meet on shift, in clinic and in class, and every claim links to the source behind it. Before it writes anything, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources: journals and databases such as PubMed and the Cochrane Library, guidelines and agencies such as NICE, WHO and CDC, FDA and DailyMed drug labels, and references such as StatPearls and the MSD Manual. AskMed does not search forums or social media, and when no usable source turns up it says so instead of answering from memory. For medicines, AskMed explains what a drug is used for, how it works, what to monitor, side effects and interactions, but never states doses. Medical device settings are not doses, so catheter, tube and airway sizes, balloon fill volumes, ventilator starting settings and chest drain suction pressures come with their numbers when the sources state them. AskMed is built for nurses, doctors, pharmacists, students and researchers alike. - Care and procedure questions. Ask how a device is placed and checked, what a guideline says about pressure injury prevention, or which observations matter after a procedure. Each answer draws on 8 sources by default, and you can set 3 to 12. - Drug information without doses. Ask what a medicine is for, how it works, what to monitor and which side effects to watch for. Amounts and schedules come from the current label, your drug guide or the prescriber. Checking a drug interaction with AI covers interactions in more detail. - Guidelines with their year. AskMed prefers guidelines and health agencies first, gives the year of every guideline recommendation it states, and says what changed when guidance has been updated. - Context from a file. Attach a PDF, a photo of printed text or a pasted note, such as a policy extract or your own notes, and AskMed can cite the file for what the file itself says. - Scores at the bedside. The NEWS2 calculator and Glasgow Coma Scale calculator on getaskmed.com are each built from the original source and linked to it. A night shift with no senior to ask shows one ward question worked through with AskMed, including when to escalate instead. ## How can nursing students use AI to study? Nursing students get the most from AI when it explains why an answer is right, with a source they can open, rather than handing over a summary to reread. A practical split is to practise NCLEX-style questions in a dedicated bank and to use a cited AI tool for the gaps each question exposes. AskMed does not include an NCLEX question bank: its Exam Prep covers medical licensing exams such as USMLE and PLAB, so pair AskMed with UWorld, Lecturio, Osmosis or the bank your school provides. When a rationale leaves you unsure, ask AskMed. Paste a multiple-choice question with its options, and the first sentence of the answer names the correct option, then the answer explains why each other option is wrong, with a citation after each claim. A short follow-up such as "and in pregnancy?" is read together with your previous question, so you can keep asking about a care plan or a drug class without repeating the case. - Learn the class, then the drug. Ask how a drug class works, what to monitor and which side effects matter, then compare two drugs in the same class. That is what pharmacology exams and care plans test. - Check a care plan against the guideline. Ask what the current guideline recommends for a condition in your clinical placement and open the cited guideline itself, not only the summary. - Ask in your own language. AskMed's apps come in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic, and answers are written in the language of the question. - Share with your study group. Send a full answer with its sources to a classmate as text. Medical students have their own guide: best AI for medical students. ## What should nurse practitioners look for in an AI tool? Nurse practitioners who assess, diagnose and prescribe need an AI tool whose answers can be checked in seconds and that follows the guidance where they practise. Four checks matter. First, citations: each claim should link to the specific guideline, trial or drug label behind it, not to a reading list at the end. Second, current guidance: the tool should show a guideline's year and say when a recommendation has changed. Third, sign-up: OpenEvidence's App Store listing says an NPI is required, and OpenAI's help center limits ChatGPT for Clinicians to verified US clinicians, including nurse practitioners, so NPs outside the US should check before relying on either. Fourth, dosing: AskMed never states doses, so prescribing amounts still come from the current label or formulary. AskMed meets the first three for nurse practitioners anywhere: a link after every claim, the year of every guideline recommendation, and no NPI or license needed to sign up. - Source filters. Limit a question to clinical guidelines or drug labels, choose study types such as meta-analyses or clinical trials, and set how many sources an answer cites, from 3 to 12. - Research Mode. For an evidence question, AskMed analyzes up to 20 papers and lays out the key trials, meta-analyses and guideline positions, and says where the evidence is weak or conflicting. - Guidance outside the US. AskMed searches NICE, ESC, WHO and other non-US guidance, and checks official drug registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk for local brand names. - No pharma advertising. AskMed carries no drug company ads or sponsored content next to answers. ## How do nurses use AI safely? Nurses use AI safely by treating every answer as a lead to check, not as an order to follow. AI models can misread a source, miss something or state an outdated recommendation with confidence, so open the citation behind the claim you will act on and make sure it says what the sentence says, for the same group of patients. Follow your hospital's policies and local guidelines, which can differ from national or overseas guidance, and take doses only from the current prescribing information or your drug guide. Keep names, dates of birth and other identifying details out of any AI tool unless your employer has approved it for patient data. An AI answer never replaces escalation: if a patient is deteriorating, call the rapid response team or the senior clinician on duty. AskMed is a reference for education, not a symptom checker, and it does not diagnose patients or decide treatment, so clinical judgment stays with the nurse. - Open the citation. In AskMed every claim is followed by its own link, and the source list labels each one as a Guideline, Research, Drug label or Reference, so you know what kind of evidence it is before you open it. - Check the year. A current guideline outweighs an older review, and one small study is weaker than a meta-analysis. - Use Private Mode. With Private Mode on, new questions are not saved to AskMed's History. - Report what looks wrong. Tap the thumbs down under an answer and pick a reason, such as Inaccurate or Sources don't match, with an optional note. How AskMed answers lists every source AskMed searches and every limit in full. ## Questions Q: What is the best AI for nurses? AskMed is the best AI for nurses who want clinical answers they can check. It answers care, drug and guideline questions from journals, guidelines and drug labels, links every claim to its source, and says so when it finds no source instead of answering from memory. It explains what a drug is for, how it works, what to monitor and its side effects, but never gives doses. AskMed works in any country with no license or NPI, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. OpenEvidence and ChatGPT for Clinicians also give cited answers, but OpenEvidence requires an NPI and ChatGPT for Clinicians is for verified US clinicians, including nurse practitioners. Q: What is the best AI for nursing students? Most nursing students do best with two tools: an NCLEX question bank such as UWorld, Lecturio or Osmosis for practice, and AskMed for cited answers to the questions each rationale leaves open. AskMed does not have NCLEX questions, but it explains drug classes, care guidelines and exam-style questions with a source after every claim. Q: Can nurses use OpenEvidence? OpenEvidence's App Store listing says it is available only to healthcare professionals, that an NPI is required and that users must verify their status. The listing does not say which nursing roles qualify, so check at sign-up. AskMed needs no NPI or license. Q: Does AskMed have NCLEX questions? No. AskMed's Exam Prep covers medical licensing exams such as USMLE and PLAB, not the NCLEX. Use an NCLEX bank for practice and AskMed to look up the reasoning behind a question. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed explains what a drug is used for, how it works, monitoring, side effects and interactions, but never gives amounts or schedules. Those come from the current prescribing information, your drug guide or the prescriber. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/ai-drug-interaction-checker Title: Using AI to Check Drug Interactions Safely # Using AI to Check Drug Interactions Safely Updated 3 November 2026 An AI model can explain a drug interaction in seconds: why two medicines interact, how serious it is, what the label says and what to monitor. It can also be confidently wrong. This guide is for pharmacists, GPs and prescribers who want the speed of AI without the risk. It covers what Lexicomp, Micromedex, Medscape and Drugs.com do, where AI adds to them and where it fails, a five-step check, two classic interactions at mechanism level, and how AskMed answers drug questions. ## What does a drug interaction checker do? A drug interaction checker is a curated database that takes a list of medicines and returns every known interacting pair, each with a severity rating, a short description of the effect, a management note and references. The professional checkers pharmacists and prescribers use most are Lexicomp (now sold by Wolters Kluwer as UpToDate Lexidrug), Micromedex from Merative, the Medscape Drug Interaction Checker and the Drug Interaction Checker on Drugs.com. Editors write and grade each entry, so the same two drugs return the same result every time, which is what makes a checker reliable for screening a whole medication list. The trade-off is that a checker gives a rating, not an explanation fitted to your patient, and the rating scales differ: Lexidrug uses letters from A to X, while Medscape and Drugs.com use named tiers. Each of the four tools below describes its own checker this way on its own site. - Lexidrug (Lexicomp): screens prescription and over-the-counter medicines, natural products, foods and alcohol, and drug allergies. Each pair gets a risk rating: A (no known interaction), B (no action needed), C (monitor therapy), D (consider therapy modification) or X (avoid combination), with management advice and supporting references. - Micromedex: a Drug Interactions tab where you add drugs by brand or generic name, plus allergies. Merative describes checks for drug-drug, drug-food, drug-ethanol, drug-lab test, drug-tobacco, drug-pregnancy and drug-lactation interactions, and Micromedex now also offers AI-powered search and an assistant that answers questions typed in natural language. - Medscape Drug Interaction Checker: checks up to 30 prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines and herbal supplements at once, and sorts results into Contraindicated, Serious (use alternative), Monitor Closely and Minor. - Drugs.com Drug Interaction Checker: grades interactions as Major, Moderate or Minor, has a consumer and a professional view, and also lists food and lifestyle interactions, disease interactions and therapeutic duplication. ## Where does AI help with drug interactions? AI helps with drug interactions where a checker stops: the explanation. An AI model that searches medical sources can take a flagged pair and explain the mechanism (which cytochrome P450 enzyme is inhibited or induced, which transporter is involved, or which pharmacodynamic effect is added), what the drug label says in its interaction and contraindication sections, what current clinical guidelines recommend, which symptoms and lab values to monitor, and which alternative drugs avoid the problem. AI can also answer the follow-up questions a checker can't, such as whether an interaction matters more in a patient with reduced kidney function, whether a class effect applies to a related drug, or how long an interaction lasts after one drug is stopped. For a pharmacist counselling a patient, a GP reviewing repeat prescriptions or a prescriber on a ward round, that turns a severity letter into a decision they understand. All of this is only useful if each statement links to the source it came from. Questions that work well with AI are the ones that start with "why" or "what next", for example: - Why does clarithromycin interact with simvastatin, and which statins are less affected? - What does the label say about combining a direct oral anticoagulant with a strong CYP3A4 and P-glycoprotein inhibitor? - What should be monitored when an ACE inhibitor and spironolactone are used together? ## Where can AI go wrong? AI goes wrong on drug interactions in two main ways: it can state something no source says, and it can miss the context that changes the answer. A general chatbot answering from memory can invent an interaction, miss a real one, misgrade its severity or cite a reference that doesn't exist, and nothing in the answer shows which. In a 2023 Cureus study of 414 prescriptions containing antimicrobials, the Lexicomp database found 90 drug-drug interactions and Google Bard found 68, and agreement between the two on risk rating was almost nil (kappa 0.01). Missing context is harder to spot: a correct general statement can be wrong for your patient if the AI doesn't know their age, kidney or liver function, the rest of their medicines, or which product and country you mean. Even dedicated databases disagree: a 2022 Frontiers in Pharmacology study found the same severity in Stockley's, Drugs.com and MediQ for only 55 of 1,684 interactions (3.3%). The errors to watch for most often are: - Invented references. A citation that looks real but leads nowhere, or leads to a page that says something else. - A class rule applied to every drug in the class. Interactions often depend on the individual drug, not the class, as the fluoxetine example below shows. - Brand names from another country. The same brand can contain different ingredients in different markets. - Old information. Labels are updated, and a model's training data may predate the change. ## How do you check a drug interaction safely with AI? To check a drug interaction safely with AI, treat the AI answer as a lead to verify, not a verdict. Ask for the source of every claim, and prefer a tool that links each sentence to the page it came from. Then open the primary document. In the US prescribing information on the FDA website or DailyMed, interactions sit in section 7 (Drug Interactions), contraindications in section 4 and warnings in section 5. In the UK and EU Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC), found on the electronic medicines compendium (EMC) or the EMA website, interactions sit in section 4.5 and contraindications in section 4.3. Next, cross-check the pair in a dedicated checker such as Lexidrug, Micromedex, Medscape or Drugs.com, or the BNF interactions pages if you practise in the UK. When sources disagree, follow the current local source and your clinical judgement. The steps below put this in order. - Give the AI the context. Name every drug by generic name, including over-the-counter and herbal products, and add age, pregnancy, kidney and liver function, and your country. - Ask for the source. Ask what the label and the relevant guideline say, not just whether the drugs interact. - Read the label section yourself. Check that the cited page says what the answer says, for the same drug and the same population. - Cross-check a dedicated checker. Run the full medication list, not only the pair you asked about, so other interactions on the chart are caught. - Take doses from the prescribing information. Any dose adjustment comes from the current label, your local formulary and the prescriber, not from an AI answer. ## What do two classic interactions look like? Two classic interactions show what a good AI answer should explain: warfarin with certain antibiotics, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) with monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs). Warfarin with co-trimoxazole or metronidazole is a pharmacokinetic interaction, in which one drug changes how much of the other is in the body. An SSRI with an MAOI is a pharmacodynamic interaction, in which two drugs add to the same effect, here serotonin activity. Both interactions are written into the US drug labels, both are flagged by every major checker, and both contain a detail that a general AI answer can miss. For warfarin, the effect shows up in the INR, so the answer is as much about monitoring as about avoiding the combination. For SSRIs, the wait after stopping fluoxetine is far longer than for other SSRIs. The descriptions below stay at mechanism level and link to the labels they come from. ### Warfarin and antibiotics Warfarin is a mix of two forms, and the more potent S-warfarin is broken down mainly by the liver enzyme CYP2C9 (R-warfarin by CYP1A2 and CYP3A4). The Coumadin label on DailyMed lists co-trimoxazole, metronidazole and fluconazole among CYP2C9 inhibitors, explains that inhibitors of these enzymes can increase warfarin exposure and raise the INR, and advises close INR monitoring when such a drug is taken with warfarin. A higher INR means a higher risk of bleeding. Enzyme inducers work the other way: rifampicin speeds up warfarin's breakdown and can lower the INR. The label also notes that INR changes have been reported with antibiotics and antifungals in general, even though pharmacokinetic studies have not shown a consistent effect on warfarin levels, so infection, illness and changes in diet are part of the picture too. ### SSRIs and MAOIs Taking an SSRI with an MAOI can cause serotonin syndrome, a potentially life-threatening excess of serotonin activity with mental status changes (such as agitation or delirium), autonomic instability (such as tachycardia and hyperthermia) and neuromuscular signs (such as tremor, myoclonus and hyperreflexia). The Prozac label on DailyMed contraindicates MAOIs intended to treat psychiatric disorders with fluoxetine or within 5 weeks of stopping it, and starting fluoxetine within 14 days of stopping such an MAOI. The longer gap after fluoxetine reflects the long half-lives of fluoxetine and its active metabolite, norfluoxetine. The same label says not to start fluoxetine in a patient being treated with linezolid, an antibiotic that is also an MAOI, or with intravenous methylene blue. An answer that applies one waiting period to every SSRI misses the fluoxetine exception. ## How does AskMed handle drug interaction questions? AskMed answers drug interaction questions from sources it searches before writing, and links each claim to the source it came from. AskMed is an AI medical reference app for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Its drug label sources are the FDA and DailyMed, and for local brand names it also looks in official drug registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk, saying plainly when no page lists the product. A drug answer is built to cover the drug's class, mechanism, uses, common and serious adverse effects, named interacting drugs, contraindications and monitoring, alongside clinical guidelines and journals. When sources disagree, the answer says so and says which evidence is stronger. If the search finds no usable medical source, AskMed says so instead of answering from memory. AskMed is not an interaction database, so use it to understand and verify an interaction, alongside a checker. - No doses. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations or schedules. It explains how dosing is chosen and adjusted, including for interactions, without numbers, and ends by noting that exact dosing comes from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. - Source filters. You can turn source types on or off (journals, guidelines, drug labels, references) and choose how many sources an answer cites, from 3 to 12. - Medication lists. Attach a PDF or image and AskMed names and explains the medicines in it, without repeating their strengths or schedules. - Feedback. If a source doesn't say what the answer says, tap the thumbs down and choose "Sources don't match". The full detail is in How AskMed answers. ## Is AI safe for checking drug interactions? AI is safe for checking drug interactions when it is one step in a check, not the whole check. An AI answer is most useful for understanding an interaction: its mechanism, its clinical effect, what the label and guidelines say and what to monitor. It is least reliable as a screening tool on its own, because a model can miss an interaction, misgrade one or cite a page that doesn't support it. A safe routine has three parts: an AI tool that cites its sources, the drug label itself (section 7 of the US prescribing information, or section 4.5 of the UK and EU SmPC), and a dedicated checker such as Lexidrug, Micromedex, Medscape or Drugs.com run on the full medication list. Exact doses always come from the current prescribing information and the prescriber. AskMed is built for the first part, with every claim linked to journals, guidelines or drug labels. The questions below cover the rest. Q: What is the best AI for drug interactions? The best AI for drug interactions is one that cites a source for every claim, uses official drug labels, says when it finds no evidence, and works alongside a dedicated checker rather than replacing it. AskMed is built this way: it searches FDA and DailyMed labels, clinical guidelines and journals before answering, links each claim to its source, and never gives doses. It is built for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers. Q: Can AI replace Lexicomp or Micromedex? No. Lexidrug (Lexicomp) and Micromedex are curated databases that screen a whole medication list with graded, referenced entries. Use AI to understand and explain an interaction, and the checker to screen for every interaction on the chart. Q: Why do interaction checkers give different severity ratings? Each database uses its own scale and its own editors' reading of the evidence, so the same pair can be "monitor" in one and "avoid" in another. When ratings differ, read the mechanism and the evidence behind each entry, check the drug label, and weigh the patient in front of you rather than picking the mildest rating. Q: Does AskMed give doses when two drugs interact? No. AskMed never gives medication doses, dose calculations, titration schedules or patient-specific prescribing instructions. It explains how a dose is adjusted for an interaction in general terms, and exact dosing comes from the current prescribing information and the treating clinician. Q: Can I ask AskMed about a local brand name? Yes. For brand names it can't identify with certainty, AskMed searches official drug registries such as the EMA and the UK's medicines.org.uk for the active ingredients, and says plainly if no page lists the product. Using the generic name gives the most precise answer. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/is-chatgpt-accurate-for-medical-questions Title: Is ChatGPT Accurate for Medical Questions? The Evidence # Is ChatGPT Accurate for Medical Questions? Updated 3 November 2026 ChatGPT is often accurate on medical questions, but not reliably enough to use without checking. Published studies found it passing sample USMLE questions and giving physicians largely accurate answers, but also sometimes recommending treatments outside cancer guidelines and, in early versions, inventing about half its references. Below: what the studies found, where general chatbots go wrong, how to check any AI medical answer, and how AskMed, an AI medical reference for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and researchers, is built so every claim can be checked. - Licensing exams At or near the USMLE pass mark in 2023 (GPT-3.5); near-perfect scores by 2026 - Physicians' own questions Median accuracy 5.5 out of 6, lower on hard questions (2023) - Cancer treatment advice 34.3% of answers with a recommendation included one outside NCCN guidelines (2023) - References 47% fabricated and 46% inaccurate in one GPT-3.5 study (2023) ## How accurate is ChatGPT on medical exams? ChatGPT scores well on medical licensing exam questions, and its scores have risen with each new model. In the best-known early study, Kung and colleagues ( PLOS Digital Health, 2023) gave ChatGPT, running GPT-3.5, 350 questions from the June 2022 public USMLE sample exam, after removing questions with images, and found it performed at or near the passing threshold of about 60% on Step 1, Step 2 CK and Step 3. Later in 2023, Brin and colleagues ( Scientific Reports, 2023) tested 80 USMLE-style questions on communication, ethics, empathy and professionalism: GPT-4 answered 90% correctly and ChatGPT on GPT-3.5 answered 62.5%, against a 78% average for AMBOSS users on the same questions. By 2026, the authors of a Nature Medicine study wrote that large language models now achieve nearly perfect scores on medical licensing exams. For textbook knowledge, ChatGPT is strong. An exam question, though, hands over every relevant fact in a clean vignette with one best answer. A real clinical question has an incomplete history, guidance that may have changed, and one patient to fit. ## How accurate is ChatGPT on real clinical questions? On open clinical questions, ChatGPT is right most of the time but not consistently. Goodman and colleagues ( JAMA Network Open, 2023) had 33 physicians from 17 specialties write 284 medical questions and grade ChatGPT's answers: the median accuracy score was 5.5 on a 6-point scale, between almost completely and completely correct, but the mean was 4.8, and hard questions scored lower than easy ones. Low-scoring answers improved when the questions were asked again 8 to 17 days later, and GPT-4 scored higher than GPT-3.5. Chen and colleagues ( JAMA Oncology, 2023) asked ChatGPT for breast, prostate and lung cancer treatment advice: 34.3% of the 102 answers that made a recommendation included at least one treatment not concordant with NCCN guidelines, and 12.5% of all 104 answers named a treatment that was not part of any recommended treatment. The wrong recommendations were mixed in among correct ones, which the authors called hard even for experts to spot. Knowing the answer is also not the same as helping a person reach it. In a randomized trial by Bean and colleagues ( Nature Medicine, 2026), models including GPT-4o identified the condition in 94.9% of written scenarios when tested alone, but 1,298 UK participants using them identified relevant conditions in fewer than 34.5% of cases, no better than a control group using their usual sources. ## Does ChatGPT make up medical references? ChatGPT has made up medical references at high rates when asked to write with citations from memory, although newer models do it less often. Bhattacharyya and colleagues ( Cureus, 2023) asked ChatGPT on GPT-3.5 to write 30 short medical papers with at least three references each. Of the 115 references it produced, 47% were fabricated, 46% were real but inaccurate, and only 7% were both real and accurate. Walters and Wilder ( Scientific Reports, 2023) had ChatGPT write short literature reviews on 42 topics and checked all 636 citations: 55% of the GPT-3.5 citations and 18% of the GPT-4 citations were fabricated, and among the real ones, 43% and 24% had substantive errors such as a wrong volume, issue or page number. A fabricated reference is formatted like a real one, with authors, a journal and a year, so it can pass a quick glance and only fails when you search for it. An 18% rate still means roughly one invented reference in five, so search every chatbot reference in PubMed before you cite it. ## Where do general chatbots go wrong? General chatbots such as ChatGPT go wrong in medicine in four predictable ways, and none of them means the model knows little medicine. First, a reference written from memory can be invented, as the citation studies show. Second, a model answers from training data that stops at a cutoff date: in the 2023 cancer study, the authors compared answers with the 2021 NCCN guidelines because the model's knowledge ended in September 2021, so any later change in guidance was invisible to it. Third, an answer written from training data shows no source, so you cannot see where a claim came from or how strong the evidence behind it is. Fourth, the tone stays equally confident whether the answer is right or wrong: in Brin's 2023 study, GPT-4 changed none of its answers when asked whether it was sure, the wrong ones included. An error mixed in among correct statements, stated with the same confidence, is the hardest kind to catch. To be fair to ChatGPT, its interface warns that it can make mistakes, newer models fabricate fewer references, and when ChatGPT searches the web it links the pages it used. That search isn't limited to journals, guidelines and drug labels, though, and a link only helps if you open it. ## Is ChatGPT good for medical students and research? ChatGPT is a useful study partner for medical students and researchers, as long as every fact that matters is checked. For students, ChatGPT is good at explaining a mechanism in plain words, talking through why a differential diagnosis makes sense, quizzing you on a topic and rephrasing a dense paragraph, and the exam studies show it knows most textbook medicine. The risk is a fluent explanation that is wrong in one detail, which you then learn as fact. For exam preparation, a question bank whose explanations were written and checked against sources is the safer core, with a chatbot alongside it. For researchers, ChatGPT can help with brainstorming, outlining and plain-language summaries of text you paste in, but the citation studies show why it should not be trusted to supply references. Every reference from a chatbot needs to be found and read before it goes into a manuscript or a journal club slide. For a side-by-side look at exam tools, including where ChatGPT fits, see the best AI apps for USMLE. ## How can you check an AI medical answer? You can check any AI medical answer, from ChatGPT or any other tool, with the same five steps. Start by finding the source behind the specific claim you plan to use; if the answer gives none, treat the claim as unverified until you find it in a guideline, a drug label or a peer-reviewed paper. Open the source and confirm that it exists and says what the sentence says, for the same group of patients, since a trial in adults does not answer a question about children. Check the date, because a guideline updated after a model's training may have changed the recommendation. Check whose guidance it is: NICE, US and European guidelines can differ, so follow the one that applies where you practise. Finally, take any drug dose from the current prescribing information or your local formulary, never from a chatbot's answer. These checks take minutes, and they catch the errors the studies above describe. - Red flag: a guideline with no year. You can't tell whether the recommendation is still current. - Red flag: certainty on an open question. Where evidence is weak or guidelines disagree, a good answer says so. ## How is AskMed built differently? AskMed is built so that every claim in an answer can be checked, instead of relying on what a model remembers. Before any answer is written, AskMed searches a fixed list of medical sources: journals and databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Library, NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA and The BMJ; guidelines and agencies such as NICE, WHO and CDC; FDA and DailyMed drug labels; and references such as StatPearls and BMJ Best Practice. AskMed does not search the open web, forums or social media. An AI model then writes the answer from what the search found, and each claim is followed by a link to its source at that source's exact web address, from 8 sources by default. If no usable source turns up, AskMed shows a fixed reply saying so instead of answering from memory. For management questions, AskMed looks for the latest guideline update and is instructed to give the year of each guideline recommendation it states. AskMed never gives drug doses; exact dosing comes from the prescribing information. AskMed's answers are AI-generated too, with no human review before you see them, so AskMed can misread a source. The difference is that each sentence carries a link you can open. AskMed works on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Full detail: How AskMed answers. ## Frequently asked questions Q: Is ChatGPT accurate enough for medical advice? ChatGPT is accurate on many medical questions, but not accurate enough to act on without checking. Physicians in a 2023 JAMA Network Open study gave its answers a median accuracy score between almost completely and completely correct, yet in a 2023 JAMA Oncology study about a third of its cancer treatment answers included at least one treatment outside NCCN guidelines. A 2026 Nature Medicine trial found that members of the public using chatbots identified the relevant condition in fewer than 34.5% of scenarios, no better than people using their usual sources. For a patient, a chatbot answer is not a substitute for a doctor, and in an emergency the right step is to call the local emergency number. For a clinician or student, a ChatGPT answer is a starting point: find the guideline, label or paper behind each claim you use, check that it is current, and take any dose from the prescribing information. Q: Is ChatGPT accurate for medical diagnosis? Not reliably. In the 2026 Nature Medicine trial, models tested alone named the condition in 94.9% of written scenarios, but people using them got there in fewer than 34.5% of cases, partly because they often gave the models incomplete information. Diagnosis depends on history, examination and tests, so use a chatbot to think through a differential, not to make the diagnosis. AskMed is not a symptom checker either and doesn't diagnose patients. Q: Does ChatGPT give real references? Sometimes. When ChatGPT searches the web, it links the pages it used. References written from memory were often fabricated in the studies above, so search each one in PubMed before citing it. Q: Are newer versions of ChatGPT more accurate than the ones studied? Yes, on every measure compared so far: GPT-4 beat GPT-3.5 on exam questions, physicians' questions and references. Most studies test older versions, but no study shows newer ones no longer need checking. Q: Can AskMed be wrong? Yes. AskMed's answers are written by AI, so check the linked source behind any claim you act on, and tap the thumbs down under an answer to report an error. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed never gives doses, dose calculations or titration schedules, even for exam questions. It still explains a drug's uses, how dosing is chosen and adjusted, monitoring and side effects. Exact doses come from the current prescribing information. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-apps-for-enarm Title: Best AI Apps for ENARM Preparation in 2026 | AskMed # Best AI Apps for ENARM Preparation Our pick first, then the other five side by side. Updated 8 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for ENARM because it puts a 499-question ENARM bank in Spanish and cited medical answers in one app. Every option has its own explanation and a source you can open. Questions | 499 ENARM questions (5,499 across 11 exams) Language | Spanish, whatever language the app is set to Format | Single best answer, 4 options, like ENARM Topics | 15, from cardiology to biostatistics and ethics Explanations | One for every option Sources | 1–3 per question: StatPearls, journals, NICE, WHO, Mexican NOMs Modes | Practice, spaced-repetition review, timed mock (40 questions in 60 minutes) Doses | Never Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## The other options Five other apps are worth comparing with AskMed for the ENARM: Reto, CTO's MetaENARM, ENARM AMIR, AMBOSS and ChatGPT. Reto's App Store listing describes an ENARM simulator with the same number of questions, timing and subject areas as the official exam, a bank of more than 1,800 ENARM and specialty questions, and 100 new ENARM questions every month. MetaENARM, from CTO Medicina, combines visual summaries, recorded video classes, mock exams with a ranking and an AI question generator that adapts practice to your weak areas. ENARM AMIR, from Academia AMIR, is a study platform that uses data analysis and AI to build a personal calendar, goals and automatic feedback. AMBOSS offers an ENARM Qbank of more than 3,000 questions in Spanish, aligned with Mexico's clinical practice guidelines (GPC). ChatGPT is a general AI chatbot with no ENARM question bank, so you check its sources yourself. AskMed pairs a 499-question ENARM bank with cited answers to any medical question. App | Type | ENARM questions | Best for Reto (Reto: ENARM y Especialidades) | Simulator + question bank + clinical cases | 1,800+ (ENARM and specialty exams) | Full simulators that copy the exam's timing and areas, plus a national ranking and weekly challenges MetaENARM (CTO Medicina) | Video course + mock exams + AI practice | Not stated | Video classes and visual summaries, mocks with a ranking, and AI-generated practice on weak areas ENARM AMIR (Academia AMIR) | Personalised study platform with AI | Not stated | A study plan with a calendar, goals, progress analysis and automatic feedback AMBOSS ENARM Qbank | Question bank + exam mode | 3,000+ in Spanish | Questions aligned with Mexican GPC guidelines, each explanation linking to its GPC ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | None | Talking a topic through. It has no ENARM question bank, so check its sources yourself ## What to look for in an ENARM app A good ENARM app should match how the exam is built and follow Mexican practice where it differs. The convocatoria for the 50th ENARM, published by the CIFRHS, Mexico's Interinstitutional Commission for the Training of Human Resources for Health, sets the exam for 28 to 30 September 2026. It says the ENARM tests knowledge through clinical cases focused on public health, emergencies and family medicine, drawn from four core specialties: internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and general surgery. Each clinical case carries two or three questions, and each question has one correct answer and three distractors. The convocatoria does not give the number of questions; the CIFRHS publishes the exam instructions after 11 September 2026. Competition is high: 66,278 doctors registered for the 2025 ENARM, for 18,515 places in the Mexican category. The table shows the last three years, and the list below gives five things to check in an ENARM app. ENARM | Doctors registered | Places, Mexican category 2023 (47th) | 57,785 | 18,167 2024 (48th) | 63,112 | 18,207 2025 (49th) | 66,278 | 18,515 - Questions in the real format. Every ENARM question has one correct answer and three distractors. All 499 of AskMed's ENARM questions have four options, and none of them uses "all of the above" or "none of the above". AskMed's questions are single clinical vignettes rather than cases with two or three linked questions, so use a full simulator to rehearse the case format. - An explanation for every option. Knowing why the three distractors are wrong is what helps on the next case. AskMed explains all four options, in Spanish, so you learn to rule out the near misses. - Sources you can check, including Mexican ones. Mexican rules sometimes decide the answer, for example the minimum number of prenatal visits in NOM-007. In AskMed's ENARM bank, 406 of the 815 sources are StatPearls chapters and 257 are papers and guidelines linked by DOI; NICE guidance is cited 45 times and WHO 31 times. Mexican sources are cited 28 times across 26 questions: the Diario Oficial de la Federación is cited 19 times (nine different NOMs and one decree), alongside four guidelines from Mexico's Catálogo Maestro de Guías de Práctica Clínica and CENSIDA's 2025 HIV treatment guide. Every source is a link you can open. - Timed practice and review. AskMed's timed mock is 40 questions in 60 minutes, so you can build pace before a full-length simulator. Spaced-repetition review then brings back the questions you missed until they stick. - A way to fill the gaps. A question bank shows what you don't know. AskMed also answers any medical question with citations to journals, guidelines and drug labels, so you can read up on a topic and go straight back to practice. ## How do you use AI for ENARM preparation? The best way to use AI for ENARM preparation is for the work around a question bank, not in place of one. The ENARM tests clinical cases from internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology and general surgery, with a focus on public health, emergencies and family medicine, so most gains come from practising cases and learning from each mistake. An AI app such as AskMed helps at three points: before practice, to read up on a topic with sources you can open; after a wrong answer, to ask why an option is wrong and check the guideline or NOM behind it; and in revision, through spaced review that brings missed questions back at the right time. A general chatbot such as ChatGPT can explain a topic too, but it has no ENARM question bank and you have to check its claims yourself. AskMed answers with citations to journals, guidelines and drug labels, and never gives drug doses. The routine below fits any course. - Practise in short sets. Start a study block with 10 questions on one topic. Short sets keep each block focused, and you read the explanations while the case is still fresh. - Ask about every miss. When you get a question wrong, ask AskMed about the topic behind it, in Spanish or in English. AskMed answers in the language you ask in and cites where each point comes from, so you see the reason, not only the fact. - Open the source. Read the cited NOM, guideline or StatPearls chapter for the questions you found hardest. How AskMed answers explains where its answers come from and how citations work. - Let review do the timing. A question you miss comes back after 10 minutes, and each right answer pushes it further out, to 1, 3, 7, 16 and then 35 days. - Sit timed mocks. Use AskMed's 40-question mock to practise pace, and a full-length simulator from a course such as Reto, CTO or AMBOSS to rehearse the whole exam day. ## AskMed's ENARM bank by topic AskMed's ENARM bank has 499 questions across 15 topics: 149 easy, 246 medium and 104 hard. The questions are spread almost evenly: cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology and pulmonology have 34 each, and the other eleven topics have 33. The topics follow the medical specialties, from nephrology and neurology to psychiatry, plus microbiology, pharmacology and a combined biostatistics and ethics topic that also covers Mexican health rules, such as who owns the clinical record under NOM-004. They are AskMed's own topics rather than the ENARM's four core specialties, so internal medicine is split into its subspecialties, while pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology and surgery each have a topic of their own. Each question also names a subtopic, such as the diagnosis of diabetes within endocrinology in the sample question below. In the app you can practise one topic at a time, 10 questions per session, or choose all topics to mix questions from the whole bank. The table shows the count per topic. Topic | Questions Cardiology | 34 Endocrinology | 34 Gastroenterology | 34 Pulmonology | 34 Biostatistics and ethics | 33 Hematology and oncology | 33 Infectious diseases | 33 Microbiology | 33 Nephrology | 33 Neurology | 33 Obstetrics and gynecology | 33 Pediatrics | 33 Pharmacology | 33 Psychiatry | 33 Surgery | 33 ## See a question The sample below is one of AskMed's 499 ENARM questions, shown word for word as it appears in the app, in Spanish. It is an easy endocrinology question on the diagnosis of diabetes. The stem describes a 48-year-old man with obesity and a mother with diabetes who has no symptoms, a fasting plasma glucose of 134 mg/dL and, in a later sample, an HbA1c of 6.8%, and it asks for the diagnosis. That makes it a typical ENARM-style question: a short clinical picture from family medicine, then a choice that rests on Mexican rules as well as international ones. Like every question in the bank, it has four options, and each option has its own explanation. Its sources are NOM-015-SSA2-2010, Mexico's official standard for the prevention, treatment and control of diabetes mellitus, and the American Diabetes Association's Standards of Care in Diabetes 2026. Tap an answer to see why each option is right or wrong, then open a source to read it. ENARM Endocrinology · Diagnosis of diabetes Easy Masculino de 48 años con obesidad y antecedente materno de diabetes acude a su chequeo anual. Está asintomático. Glucosa plasmática en ayuno de 134 mg/dL y, en una muestra posterior, hemoglobina glucosilada (HbA1c) de 6.8%. ¿Cuál es el diagnóstico? - A Prediabetes con glucosa anormal en ayuno La glucosa anormal en ayuno abarca de 100 a 125 mg/dL; aquí la glucosa es mayor de 126 mg/dL y la HbA1c está en rango diagnóstico. - B Intolerancia a la glucosa La intolerancia a la glucosa se define con la curva de tolerancia oral (glucosa a las 2 horas de 140 a 199 mg/dL), que no se realizó. - C Diabetes mellitus tipo 2 Correcto. En un paciente asintomático, dos resultados alterados confirman el diagnóstico: glucosa en ayuno de 126 mg/dL o más y HbA1c de 6.5% o más. La NOM-015-SSA2-2010 reconoce la glucemia en ayuno de 126 mg/dL o más; la ADA acepta además la HbA1c de 6.5% o más. - D Metabolismo normal de la glucosa Ambos valores están por arriba de los puntos de corte diagnósticos. Tap an answer to see why each option is right or wrong. Sources: NOM-015-SSA2-2010, Para la prevención, tratamiento y control de la diabetes mellitus (DOF) and 2. Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2026 ## Questions Q: Is AskMed's ENARM bank written by AI on the spot? AskMed's ENARM questions are not written by AI on the spot. Every question comes from a fixed bank that was written and checked before it went into the app, and only questions marked as reviewed are served. Each ENARM question is in Spanish and has four different options, one explanation per option, and one to three sources you can open, such as a StatPearls chapter, a journal article or a Mexican NOM. Every source is a link, so you can check an explanation against the guideline or reference it comes from. If a question looks wrong, tap Report question in the app. A question reported by two or more people is held back until it is checked. When you practise, AskMed serves the questions you have not seen yet first, then the ones you saw longest ago, so you work through the whole 499-question ENARM bank before questions repeat. Q: Can I use AskMed alongside Reto, CTO or AMBOSS? Yes. You can keep a course or a simulator for full-length mocks and use AskMed for extra questions on your weak topics. AskMed's cited answers also help when an explanation leaves you with a new question. Q: Is the ENARM bank in Spanish? Yes. The questions, options and explanations are written in Spanish, and AskMed serves them in Spanish whatever language the app is set to. The app itself comes in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. Questions test the right diagnosis or choice of treatment, never doses. Q: Which devices does it work on? iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. One account works on all of them, so you can practise on your phone and review on a laptop. Q: Which other exams are covered? 5,499 questions in all: USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLAB, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, PLE, UKOMNAS, EDN, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, each in the exam's own language. See the guides for USMLE, PLAB 1 and NEET-PG. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-apps-for-plab-2 Title: Best AI Tools for PLAB 2 Preparation in 2026 | AskMed # Best AI Tools for PLAB 2 Preparation Our pick first, then the other tools and how to use each one for the PLAB 2 stations. Updated 3 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for PLAB 2 because it checks the clinical content behind each station against NICE and other cited sources. Use it alongside station practice with a partner or a course. Role for PLAB 2 | Checking the guidance behind each station topic Answers | Cited to journals, guidelines such as NICE, and drug labels PLAB 2 stations | None: practise stations with a partner, course or simulator Follow-ups | Read together with your previous question and answer Your files | Attach a PDF or image, such as your own notes PLAB 1 bank | 500 questions, 15 topics, an explanation for every option Doses | Never Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## What is PLAB 2? PLAB 2 is the second part of the GMC's PLAB test for doctors who qualified outside the UK, the EEA or Switzerland, and it is a practical clinical exam that the GMC also calls an OSCE (objective structured clinical exam). According to the GMC's PLAB 2 guide, PLAB 2 is made up of 16 scenarios of eight minutes each, set in real-life settings such as a mock consultation or an acute ward, with at least two rest stations and about three hours. Before each scenario you get 1 minute and 30 seconds to move to the next room and read the instructions. Some stations use actors as patients and others use manikins or equipment, and a station can include a prescribing element. Examiners mark each station on three domains: data gathering, technical and assessment skills; clinical management skills; and interpersonal skills. PLAB 2 is held at the GMC's two assessment centre sites in Manchester, and you need a valid PLAB 1 pass to book it. Format | OSCE: 16 scenarios, eight minutes each Before each station | 1 minute 30 seconds to move rooms and read the instructions Length | About three hours, with at least two rest stations Patients | Actors, manikins and equipment; some stations include prescribing Marked on | Data gathering, technical and assessment skills; clinical management; interpersonal skills To pass | A total score at or above the overall pass mark, and a minimum number of stations passed Level | Doctors starting the second year of the UK Foundation Programme Where | The GMC's two assessment centre sites in Manchester ## The other options Four other tools are worth comparing with AskMed for PLAB 2: PLABable, Geeky Medics, Samson Clinical Courses and ChatGPT. PLABable's PLAB 2 material is built around its Gems, which cover OSCE cases, examinations, prescriptions, procedures, SimMan and teaching stations, plus OSCE AI, which lets you practise Gems stations with an AI patient and get instant marking and feedback. Geeky Medics sells a bank of over 1,300 OSCE stations for PLAB 2, each with candidate instructions, a patient script and an examiner checklist, and AI virtual patients you can type or speak to. Samson Clinical Courses is a PLAB 2 academy that teaches in Manchester, where the exam is held, with group practice and mock exams, and it publishes the Samson Handbook of PLAB 2 and Clinical Assessment. ChatGPT is a general AI chatbot whose Voice mode can play a patient out loud, but it has no PLAB 2 material. The table below shows the type of each tool and what it is best for. Tool | Type | Best for PLABable | PLAB 2 notes (Gems) + AI patient | Station content by type, AI patient practice with marking, and finding a practice partner Geeky Medics | OSCE station bank + AI virtual patients | Scripted stations with examiner checklists to run with a partner Samson Clinical Courses | PLAB 2 academy | Face-to-face teaching and mock exams in Manchester ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Spoken roleplay of a history or an explanation. It has no PLAB 2 material, so check its clinical content yourself ## How to use AskMed for PLAB 2 stations AskMed fits into PLAB 2 preparation at three points: before you practise a station topic, after a mock station, and when a station shows a gap in your knowledge. Before you practise, ask AskMed what current NICE guidance says about the topic, such as headache, chest pain or a feverish child, and name the setting, because a GP telephone consultation and an acute ward call for different plans. After a mock, paste the management plan you gave and ask whether it matches current guidance and what it left out. A management answer from AskMed is checked to name every option the guideline recommends, and each claim links to its source, so you can open the guideline itself. When a station shows a gap, read up on it in AskMed or practise the topic in AskMed's 500-question PLAB 1 bank. Say "UK" or "NICE" in your question, because guidelines differ between countries. The table below pairs common PLAB 2 station types with questions to ask AskMed. Station type | What to ask AskMed Telephone or GP consultation | "Which headache features need urgent referral, and how does NICE recommend managing migraine in adults?" The GMC's own sample station is a telephone consultation about head pain. Chest pain | "According to NICE, how should a GP manage a patient with suspected acute coronary syndrome?" Acute ward | "How does NICE recommend recognising and managing suspected sepsis in an adult on a hospital ward?" Paediatrics | "Which features in a feverish child under 5 does NICE class as high risk, and what should happen next?" Explaining a diagnosis | "What does NICE recommend telling an adult newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes about lifestyle, monitoring and treatment options?" Prescribing | "Which drug does NICE recommend first for hypertension in a 60-year-old, and why?" AskMed explains the choice; take doses from the BNF. Consent, capacity, confidentiality | Read the GMC's own guidance on these, and practise the ethics questions in AskMed's PLAB 1 bank, which cite the GMC. - Give the patient and the setting. Age, pregnancy, kidney function and the setting (primary care, emergency department or ward) all change the plan. - Paste your own plan. After a mock, type out what you told the examiner and ask what current guidance would add or change. You can also attach your notes as a PDF or an image. - Use short follow-ups. A follow-up such as "and if she is pregnant?" is read together with your last question and answer, so you can test the variations an examiner might add. - Open the citation. Before you learn a plan, open the source behind it and check the date and whose guidance it is. More on this in how AskMed answers. ## What to look for in PLAB 2 preparation tools A good PLAB 2 preparation tool should train you to perform a station, not only to know its content. PLAB 2 tests what you do in eight minutes with a patient, an examiner and sometimes a manikin, and the GMC says it is not a test of memorised facts. That gives five things to check: practice spoken out loud with a person who plays the patient and marks you; feedback organised by the GMC's three domains of data gathering, clinical management and interpersonal skills; content that follows current UK guidance, since the GMC expects answers to follow published evidence rather than local arrangements; hands-on practice of examinations and procedures on a manikin, which no app can replace; and a quick way to check the guidance behind a topic. Start with the GMC's own sample OSCE station and the MLA content map, which the GMC says covers all the topics and skills PLAB 2 tests. The list below explains each point and where AskMed fits. - Spoken practice with a person. A study partner, an academy, PLABable's partner pairing or a Geeky Medics circuit gives you a patient to talk to and an examiner to time you. - Feedback by domain. Your PLAB 2 results show your mark in each of the GMC's three domains, so practise with checklists that split the score the same way. - Current UK guidance. PLAB 2 tests UK practice, so a station plan should follow UK guidance such as NICE rather than another country's guideline. AskMed's answers cite NICE among its guideline sources, and the source list labels each source as a guideline, research, a drug label or a reference. - Hands-on skills. Examinations of the abdomen, chest, heart and joints, and procedures on manikins, need practice with your hands. An academy or a clinical skills session covers this; an app cannot. - A quick check on knowledge. When a mock exposes a gap, read up on it with cited sources and go back to practice. That is AskMed's job in PLAB 2 preparation. ## Questions Q: Does AskMed have PLAB 2 stations? No. AskMed has no PLAB 2 station bank, no AI patient and no PLAB 2 mock exam. AskMed's Exam Prep covers PLAB 1, with 500 single-best-answer questions across 15 topics, each with five options, an explanation for every option and one to three sources such as NICE, GOV.UK, the RCOG and the GMC. For PLAB 2, AskMed is the place to check the clinical content of a station: ask what NICE recommends for a topic, paste the plan you gave in a mock and ask what it missed, then open the citation behind each claim to read the guideline itself. Practise the stations themselves out loud and against the clock, with a study partner, an academy, or an OSCE tool such as PLABable's OSCE AI or Geeky Medics' virtual patients. The GMC also publishes a sample OSCE station on its website, which shows what a real PLAB 2 scenario looks like. Q: How many stations are in PLAB 2? The GMC describes PLAB 2 as 16 scenarios of eight minutes each, with at least two rest stations and about three hours in all. You get 1 minute and 30 seconds before each scenario to move rooms and read the instructions. Q: Do I need a PLAB 2 course? The GMC says you don't need to attend a course to pass PLAB 2, and it doesn't offer or endorse courses. If you take one, the GMC says it is your responsibility to check the course and the people running it. Q: Can ChatGPT play a patient for PLAB 2 practice? Yes. ChatGPT's Voice mode holds a spoken conversation on iPhone, Android and the web, so you can give it a scenario and take a history out loud. It has no PLAB 2 material or GMC mark scheme, so check its clinical content against NICE guidance, for example with AskMed's cited answers. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. AskMed explains which drug a guideline recommends and why, but never gives doses. For prescribing stations, take doses from the BNF, which the GMC uses for drug names in PLAB 2. Q: Which devices does it work on? iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. One account works on all of them, so you can check a topic on your phone between mock stations and read the guideline on a laptop. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-apps-for-neet-pg Title: Best AI Apps for NEET-PG Preparation in 2026 | AskMed # Best AI Apps for NEET-PG Preparation Our pick first, then the other five side by side. Updated 3 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for NEET-PG because it puts a 499-question NEET-PG bank and cited medical answers in one app. Every option has its own explanation and a source you can open. Questions | 499 NEET-PG questions (5,499 across 11 exams) Format | Single best answer, 4 options, like NEET-PG Topics | 15, from cardiology to biostatistics and ethics Explanations | One for every option Sources | 1–3 per question: StatPearls, WHO, CDC, MoHFW, ICMR Modes | Practice, spaced-repetition review, timed mock (40 questions in 60 minutes) Doses | Never Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## The other options Five other apps are worth comparing with AskMed for NEET-PG: Marrow, PrepLadder, DAMS, Cerebellum and ChatGPT. The first four are full NEET-PG courses built by Indian medical teachers, each with video lectures, a question bank and test series. Marrow lists 18,500+ MCQs across 19 subjects, 850+ hours of video and 390+ tests, including 130+ Grand Tests. PrepLadder lists 18,000+ MCQs, an audio QBank in English and Hinglish, and notes that follow its videos. DAMS, the Delhi Academy of Medical Sciences, adds live two-way interactive classes and a question bank with a video solution for every question, and Cerebellum Academy combines live classes, recorded lectures, a QBank and grand tests. ChatGPT is different: it is a general AI chatbot, useful for talking a topic through, but it has no NEET-PG question bank, so you need to check its sources yourself. AskMed sits between the two groups, with a 499-question NEET-PG bank and cited answers to any medical question in the same app. App | Type | Best for Marrow | Video course + question bank + tests | The whole syllabus in one course: 19 subjects, 18,500+ MCQs and Grand Tests PrepLadder | Video course + question bank + tests | Video lectures with matching notes, plus an audio QBank in English and Hinglish DAMS (eMedicoz app) | Live and recorded classes + question bank | Live two-way classes, and a video solution for every question Cerebellum | Live and recorded classes + question bank | Classes from the five educators who founded it, with grand and mock tests ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Talking a topic through. It has no NEET-PG question bank, so check its sources yourself ## What to look for in a NEET-PG app A good NEET-PG app should match the format of the exam and follow Indian practice where it differs. The NEET-PG 2026 information bulletin from NBEMS, the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences, sets the paper at 180 multiple-choice questions with four options each, in English, in 3 hours 30 minutes. The paper is split into five time-bound sections of 36 questions with 42 minutes each, and you cannot go back to a section once its time is up. A correct answer earns 4 marks and a wrong one loses 1. That gives five things to check in a NEET-PG app: four-option questions; an explanation for every option; sources you can open, including India's national programmes; timed practice plus review of the questions you missed; and a way to read up on what a question exposed without leaving the app. The list below explains each point and shows how AskMed's 499-question NEET-PG bank handles it. - Questions in the real format. Practising with four-option questions makes the format feel normal on the day. All 499 of AskMed's NEET-PG questions have four options, and none of them uses "all of the above" or "none of the above". - An explanation for every option. With a mark lost for every wrong answer, you need to know why the almost-right options are wrong, not only which one is right. AskMed explains all four, so you learn to rule out the distractors. - Sources you can check, including Indian ones. Indian practice sometimes differs from US or UK guidance, for example in national programme treatment guidelines. In AskMed's NEET-PG bank, 439 of the 672 sources are StatPearls chapters, WHO pages are cited 22 times and the CDC 14 times, and Indian government sources such as the MoHFW, ICMR, the NCVBDC and the Gazette of India are cited 18 times across 16 questions. Every source is a link you can open. - Timed practice and review. The real paper allows 70 seconds a question. AskMed's timed mock is 40 questions in 60 minutes, about 90 seconds a question, so you can build pace step by step. Spaced-repetition review then brings back the questions you missed until they stick. - A way to fill the gaps. A question bank shows what you don't know. AskMed also answers any medical question with citations to journals, guidelines and drug labels, so you can read up on a topic and go straight back to practice. ## How do you use AI for NEET-PG preparation? The best way to use AI for NEET-PG preparation is for the work around a question bank, not in place of one. NEET-PG is 180 four-option questions in 3 hours 30 minutes, so most marks come from practising questions in that format and learning from each mistake. An AI app such as AskMed helps at three points: before practice, to read up on a topic with sources you can open; after a wrong answer, to ask why an option is wrong and check the guideline behind it; and in revision, through spaced review that brings missed questions back at the right time. A general chatbot such as ChatGPT can explain a topic too, but it has no NEET-PG question bank and you have to check its claims yourself. AskMed answers with citations to journals, guidelines and drug labels, and never gives drug doses. The steps below show a simple routine that works next to any coaching course. - Practise in short sets. Start a study block with 10 questions on one topic. Short sets keep each block focused, and you see the explanations while the question is still fresh. - Ask about every miss. When you get a question wrong, ask AskMed about the topic behind it, for example why one drug is the first choice under a national programme. The answer cites where it comes from, so you can see the reason, not only the fact. - Open the source. Read the cited guideline or StatPearls chapter for the questions you found hardest. How AskMed answers explains where its answers come from and how citations work. - Let review do the timing. A question you miss comes back after 10 minutes, and each right answer pushes it further out, to 1, 3, 7, 16 and then 35 days. - Sit timed mocks. Use AskMed's 40-question mock to practise pace, and your course's full-length grand tests to rehearse the five timed sections of the real paper. ## AskMed's NEET-PG bank by topic AskMed's NEET-PG bank has 499 questions across 15 topics: 149 easy, 251 medium and 99 hard. The questions are spread almost evenly: cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and pharmacology have 34 each, and the other eleven topics have 33. The topics follow the medical specialties, from endocrinology and nephrology to psychiatry, plus microbiology, pharmacology and a combined biostatistics and ethics topic. They are AskMed's own topics rather than the 19 MBBS subjects that NEET-PG courses use, so subjects such as anatomy and ophthalmology have no topic of their own. Each question also names a subtopic, such as kala-azar within infectious diseases in the sample question below. In the app you can practise one topic at a time, 10 questions per session, or choose all topics to mix questions from the whole bank. Each answer feeds spaced-repetition review. The table below shows how many NEET-PG questions each topic has. Topic | Questions Cardiology | 34 Obstetrics and gynecology | 34 Pediatrics | 34 Pharmacology | 34 Biostatistics and ethics | 33 Endocrinology | 33 Gastroenterology | 33 Hematology and oncology | 33 Infectious diseases | 33 Microbiology | 33 Nephrology | 33 Neurology | 33 Psychiatry | 33 Pulmonology | 33 Surgery | 33 ## See a question The sample below is one of AskMed's 499 NEET-PG questions, shown word for word as it appears in the app. It is a medium-difficulty infectious diseases question on kala-azar, also called visceral leishmaniasis. The stem describes a 15-year-old from Muzaffarpur, Bihar with prolonged fever, massive splenomegaly and a positive rK39 rapid test, and it asks which drug is the first choice under India's Kala-azar Elimination Programme. That makes it a typical NEET-PG question: a short clinical picture, then a choice that depends on India's own national programme rather than on a textbook from another country. Like every question in the bank, it has four options, and each option has its own explanation. Its source is the operational guideline on kala-azar elimination from the NCVBDC, India's National Center for Vector Borne Diseases Control. Tap an answer to see why each option is right or wrong, then open the source to read the guideline. NEET-PG Infectious diseases · Kala-azar Medium A 15-year-old from Muzaffarpur, Bihar has prolonged fever, massive splenomegaly, darkening of skin and pancytopenia; rK39 rapid test is positive. Which drug is the first choice under India's Kala-azar Elimination Programme? - A Sodium stibogluconate Antimonials were abandoned in Bihar because of widespread resistance and cardiotoxicity. - B Liposomal amphotericin B Correct. Liposomal amphotericin B is the programme's first-choice drug for visceral leishmaniasis; miltefosine-based regimens are alternatives. - C Chloroquine Chloroquine treats vivax malaria and has no role in leishmaniasis. - D Ivermectin Ivermectin is used for filariasis, strongyloidiasis and scabies, not kala-azar. Tap an answer to see why each option is right or wrong. Source: NCVBDC: Operational Guidelines on Kala-azar Elimination ## Questions Q: Is AskMed's NEET-PG bank written by AI on the spot? AskMed's NEET-PG questions are not written by AI on the spot. Every question comes from a fixed bank that was written and checked before it went into the app, and only questions marked as reviewed are served. Each NEET-PG question has four different options, one explanation per option, and one to three sources you can open, such as a StatPearls chapter, a WHO page or an Indian national programme guideline. Every source is a link, so you can check an explanation against the guideline or reference it comes from. If a question looks wrong, tap Report question in the app. A question reported by two or more people is held back until it is checked. When you practise, AskMed serves the questions you have not seen yet first, then the ones you saw longest ago, so you work through the whole 499-question NEET-PG bank before questions repeat. Q: Can I use AskMed alongside Marrow or PrepLadder? Yes. You can keep a full course for lectures and grand tests and use AskMed for extra questions on your weak topics. AskMed's cited answers also help when an explanation leaves you with a new question. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. Questions test the right choice of treatment, never doses. Q: Which devices does it work on? iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. One account works on all of them, so you can practise on your phone and review on a laptop. Q: Do I need a medical registration to use it? No. AskMed works worldwide, and students can sign up without a medical licence or registration. Q: Which other exams are covered? 5,499 questions in all: USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLAB, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, PLE, UKOMNAS, EDN, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, each in the exam's own language. See the guides for USMLE and PLAB 1. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-apps-for-usmle Title: Best AI Apps for USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK in 2026 # Best AI apps for USMLE: compared Our pick first, then the other five side by side. Updated 3 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for USMLE: 1,000 single-best-answer questions across 15 topics, 500 for Step 1 and 500 for Step 2 CK, and cited medical answers, in one app. Every option has its own explanation. Questions | 500 Step 1 and 500 Step 2 CK (5,499 across 11 exams) Format | Single best answer, clinical vignettes Topics | 15, from cardiology to biostatistics and ethics Explanations | One for every option Sources | 1–3 per question: StatPearls, ACC/AHA, USPSTF, KDIGO, AAP Modes | Practice, spaced-repetition review, timed mock (40 questions in 60 minutes) Doses | Never Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## The other options Five other apps are worth comparing with AskMed for USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK: UWorld, AMBOSS, Lecturio, Oncourse and ChatGPT. UWorld is the question bank most students use as their main one, with self-assessments and now an AI tutor called UAsk. AMBOSS links each question to articles in its medical library and has an AI mode. Lecturio is built around video lectures, with a question bank and a large free tier, and Oncourse combines a question bank with an AI tutor and spaced repetition. ChatGPT is a general AI chatbot: useful for talking a topic through, but it has no USMLE question bank, so you need to check its sources yourself. AskMed sits between the banks and the chatbot, with 1,000 USMLE questions and cited answers to any medical question in the same app. The table below shows the type of each app and what it is best for. App | Type | Best for UWorld | Question bank + self-assessments | The bank most students use as their main one, now with an AI tutor (UAsk) AMBOSS | Question bank + medical library | Linking each question to library articles, with an AI mode Lecturio | Video lectures + question bank | Learning from lectures, with a large free tier Oncourse | Question bank + AI tutor | AI tutoring with spaced repetition ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Talking a topic through. It has no USMLE question bank, so check its sources yourself ## What to look for in a USMLE app A good USMLE app should feel like the real exam and show where each answer comes from. Step 1 and Step 2 CK questions are clinical vignettes with one best answer, and since May 2026 both exams are split into 30-minute blocks of about 20 questions, which leaves about 90 seconds a question. That gives five things to check in a USMLE app: vignette questions, with Step 1 and Step 2 CK kept apart; an explanation for every option, not only the correct one; sources you can open, from reference texts to current guidelines; timed practice at exam pace plus review of the questions you missed; and a way to read up on what a question exposed without leaving the app. Read a few sample questions and their explanations before you commit to a bank. The list below explains each point and shows how AskMed's 1,000-question USMLE bank handles it. - Questions that read like the real exam. Step 1 and Step 2 CK are built from clinical vignettes: a patient, a few findings, one best answer. Step 1 asks about the mechanism behind the case, Step 2 CK asks what you would do next. AskMed keeps the two banks apart, so Step 1 questions test the science and Step 2 CK questions test diagnosis and management. - An explanation for every option. Most of the work in a vignette is ruling out the answers that are almost right. An app that only explains the correct answer skips that. AskMed explains all of them, so you learn why each wrong answer is wrong. - Sources you can check. Step 1 explanations cite StatPearls, the peer-reviewed reference library on the NCBI Bookshelf: 575 of the 577 sources in the Step 1 bank. Step 2 CK explanations follow current guidelines: AHA journals are cited 39 times, the US Preventive Services Task Force 10 times, KDIGO 8 times and the American Academy of Pediatrics 8 times. Every source is a link you can open. - Timed practice at exam pace. AskMed's timed mock is 40 questions in 60 minutes, the same pace as two of the real 30-minute blocks. Spaced-repetition review then brings back the questions you missed until they stick. - A way to fill the gaps. A question bank shows what you don't know. AskMed also answers any medical question with citations to journals, guidelines and drug labels, so you can read up on a topic and go straight back to practice. ## AskMed's USMLE banks by topic AskMed's USMLE banks hold 1,000 single-best-answer questions across 15 topics, 500 for each step. Step 1: 150 easy, 255 medium and 95 hard. Step 2 CK: 150 easy, 250 medium and 100 hard. Both banks use the same 15 topics, from biostatistics and ethics to surgery, with 33 or 34 questions per topic in each step. Each question also names a subtopic, such as atrial fibrillation and stroke prevention within cardiology in the sample question below. In the app you choose Step 1 or Step 2 CK, then practise one topic at a time, 10 questions per session, or choose all topics to mix questions from the whole bank. Each answer feeds spaced-repetition review: a question you miss comes back after 10 minutes, and each right answer pushes it further out, to 1, 3, 7, 16 and then 35 days. The table below lists how many questions each topic has in each step. Topic | Step 1 | Step 2 CK Biostatistics and ethics | 33 | 33 Cardiology | 34 | 33 Endocrinology | 33 | 34 Gastroenterology | 33 | 33 Hematology and oncology | 34 | 33 Infectious diseases | 33 | 34 Microbiology | 33 | 33 Nephrology | 33 | 33 Neurology | 34 | 34 Obstetrics and gynecology | 33 | 33 Pediatrics | 33 | 33 Pharmacology | 34 | 33 Psychiatry | 33 | 34 Pulmonology | 34 | 34 Surgery | 33 | 33 ## See a question USMLE Step 2 CK Cardiology · Atrial fibrillation, stroke prevention Easy A 74-year-old woman comes to the clinic because of intermittent palpitations for 2 weeks. She has hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus. She has no history of bleeding, and her renal function is normal. Blood pressure is 134/82 mm Hg, and pulse is 88/min and irregularly irregular. There is no murmur. An ECG confirms atrial fibrillation. Echocardiography shows normal valves and a normal ejection fraction. Which of the following is the most appropriate long-term therapy to reduce her risk of stroke? - A Aspirin and clopidogrel Dual antiplatelet therapy is inferior to oral anticoagulation for preventing stroke in atrial fibrillation and causes similar bleeding. It is not an appropriate substitute. - B Apixaban Correct. Her CHA2DS2-VASc score is 4 (age 65 to 74, female sex, hypertension, diabetes), which corresponds to a high annual stroke risk. Oral anticoagulation is recommended, and a direct oral anticoagulant such as apixaban is preferred over warfarin in patients without moderate-to-severe mitral stenosis or a mechanical valve. - C Aspirin Aspirin alone is not recommended for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation because it is much less effective than anticoagulation and still carries bleeding risk. - D No antithrombotic therapy With a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 4, her annual stroke risk is well above the threshold at which anticoagulation is recommended. Withholding therapy would leave her at high risk. - E Left atrial appendage occlusion Percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion is reserved for patients with a contraindication to long-term oral anticoagulation, such as prior serious bleeding. She has no such contraindication. Tap an answer to see why each option is right or wrong. Source: 2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Fibrillation ## Questions Q: Is AskMed's USMLE bank written by AI on the spot? AskMed's USMLE questions are not written by AI on the spot. Every Step 1 and Step 2 CK question comes from a fixed bank that was written and checked before it went into the app, and only questions marked as reviewed are served. Each question has one explanation per option and one to three sources you can open, such as a StatPearls chapter or an ACC/AHA guideline. Every source is a link, so you can check an explanation against the guideline or reference it comes from. If a question looks wrong, tap Report question in the app. A question reported by two or more people is held back until it is checked. When you practise, AskMed serves the questions you have not seen yet first, then the ones you saw longest ago, so you work through each 500-question bank before questions repeat. Q: Can I use AskMed alongside UWorld? Yes. Many students use more than one bank to get fresh questions on their weak topics. AskMed's cited answers also help when an explanation leaves you with a new question. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. Questions test the right choice of treatment, never doses. Q: Which devices does it work on? iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. One account works on all of them, so you can practise on your phone and review on a laptop. Q: Do I need a US NPI or a medical licence to use it? No. AskMed works worldwide, and students can sign up without a licence or an NPI. Q: Which other exams are covered? 5,499 questions in all: USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLAB, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, PLE, UKOMNAS, EDN, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, each in the exam's own language. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-apps-for-plab Title: Best AI Apps for PLAB 1 in 2026, Compared | AskMed # Best AI apps for PLAB 1: compared Our pick first, then the other five side by side. Updated 3 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for PLAB 1: 500 single-best-answer questions across 15 topics and cited medical answers, in one app. Every option has its own explanation and a source you can open. Questions | 500 PLAB 1 questions (5,499 across 11 exams) Format | Single best answer, 5 options, like PLAB 1 Topics | 15, from cardiology to biostatistics and ethics Explanations | One for every option Sources | 1–3 per question: NICE, Merck Manuals, GOV.UK, RCOG, GMC Modes | Practice, spaced-repetition review, timed mock (40 questions in 60 minutes) Doses | Never Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## The other options Five other apps are worth comparing with AskMed for PLAB 1: PLABable, Pastest, iatroX, MedRevisions and ChatGPT. Four of them are built around a question bank. PLABable is a large bank made only for PLAB 1, with discussion under each question. Pastest is a full package of questions, mock exams and notes. iatroX pairs adaptive UK practice with an AI tutor for guideline questions, and MedRevisions maps a big bank to the MLA content map and adds an AI study assistant. ChatGPT is different: it is a general AI chatbot, useful for talking a topic through, but it has no PLAB 1 question bank, so you need to check its sources yourself. AskMed sits between the two groups, with a 500-question PLAB 1 bank and cited answers to any medical question in the same app. The table below shows the type of each app and what it is best for. App | Type | Best for PLABable | Question bank | A large bank built only for PLAB 1, with discussion under each question Pastest | Question bank + course | A full package: questions, mock exams and notes iatroX | Question bank + AI tutor | Adaptive UK practice plus guideline Q&A MedRevisions | Question bank + AI study assistant | A big bank mapped to the MLA content map ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Talking a topic through. It has no PLAB question bank, so check its sources yourself ## What to look for in a PLAB 1 app A good PLAB 1 app should match the format of the exam and teach UK practice. PLAB 1 is 180 single-best-answer questions in three hours, each with five options, which leaves about one minute per question. That gives five things to check before you choose a PLAB 1 app: questions in the same five-option format; an explanation for every option, not only the correct one; sources that follow UK guidance such as NICE rather than US guidelines; timed mocks plus spaced review of the questions you got wrong; and a way to read up on what a question exposed without leaving the app. Open a few sample questions and read their explanations and sources before you commit to a bank. The list below explains each point and shows how AskMed's 500-question PLAB 1 bank handles it. - Questions in the real format. Practising with five-option questions makes the format feel normal on the day. All 500 of AskMed's PLAB questions have five options. - An explanation for every option. In a single-best-answer paper, the hard part is ruling out the options that are almost right. An app that only explains the correct answer skips that. AskMed explains every option, so you learn why each wrong answer is wrong. - UK sources. PLAB tests UK practice, so explanations should follow NICE and other UK guidance, not US guidelines. Across AskMed's PLAB bank, NICE guidance is cited 222 times, alongside GOV.UK, the RCOG, the GMC, the British Thoracic Society and the Resuscitation Council UK. - Timed practice and review. The real paper allows about one minute per question. Timed mocks build that pace, and reviewing the questions you got wrong, spaced out over days, makes the lessons stick. AskMed has both: a 40-question, 60-minute mock and spaced-repetition review. - A way to fill the gaps. A question bank shows what you don't know. AskMed also answers any medical question with citations to journals, guidelines and drug labels, so you can read up on a topic and go straight back to practice. ## AskMed's PLAB bank by topic AskMed's PLAB 1 bank has 500 questions across 15 topics: 142 easy, 255 medium and 103 hard. The questions are spread almost evenly: cardiology, gastroenterology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and surgery have 34 each, and the other ten topics have 33. The topics follow the medical specialties, from endocrinology and nephrology to psychiatry, plus microbiology, pharmacology and a combined biostatistics and ethics topic. Each question also names a subtopic, such as hypertension within cardiology in the sample question below. In the app you can practise one topic at a time, 10 questions per session, or choose all topics to mix questions from the whole bank. Each answer feeds spaced-repetition review: a question you miss comes back after 10 minutes, and each right answer pushes it further out, to 1, 3, 7, 16 and then 35 days. The table below shows how many PLAB 1 questions each topic has. Topic | Questions Cardiology | 34 Gastroenterology | 34 Obstetrics and gynecology | 34 Pediatrics | 34 Surgery | 34 Biostatistics and ethics | 33 Endocrinology | 33 Hematology and oncology | 33 Infectious diseases | 33 Microbiology | 33 Nephrology | 33 Neurology | 33 Pharmacology | 33 Psychiatry | 33 Pulmonology | 33 ## See a question PLAB 1 Cardiology · Hypertension Easy A 52-year-old man of Black African family origin has a clinic blood pressure of 166/98 mmHg. Ambulatory monitoring confirms stage 2 hypertension. He does not have diabetes, and his renal function and urine dipstick are normal. Which is the most appropriate first-line drug treatment? - A Ramipril An ACE inhibitor is step 1 for people under 55 who are not of Black African or African–Caribbean family origin, or for anyone with type 2 diabetes. It is not first choice here. - B Bisoprolol Beta-blockers are not a routine step 1 treatment for hypertension in NICE guidance. - C Amlodipine Correct. NICE recommends a calcium-channel blocker as step 1 for adults of Black African or African–Caribbean family origin without type 2 diabetes, at any age. - D Doxazosin Alpha-blockers are a step 4 option for resistant hypertension (for example when potassium is above 4.5 mmol/L), not step 1. - E Spironolactone Spironolactone is a step 4 option for resistant hypertension when potassium is low enough. Tap an answer to see why each option is right or wrong. Source: NICE NG136: Hypertension in adults: diagnosis and management ## Questions Q: Is AskMed's PLAB bank written by AI on the spot? AskMed's PLAB 1 questions are not written by AI on the spot. Every question comes from a fixed bank that was written and checked before it went into the app, and only questions marked as reviewed are served. Each PLAB 1 question has five different options, one explanation per option, and one to three sources you can open, such as a NICE guideline or a GOV.UK page. Every source is a link, so you can check an explanation against the guideline or reference it comes from. If a question looks wrong, tap Report question in the app. A question reported by two or more people is held back until it is checked. When you practise, AskMed serves the questions you have not seen yet first, then the ones you saw longest ago, so you work through the whole 500-question PLAB 1 bank before questions repeat. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. Questions test the right choice of treatment, never doses. Q: Can I ask about something a question raised? Yes. Ask AskMed any medical question and the answer cites the journals, guidelines or drug labels it comes from, so you can check the guideline behind a question you got wrong. Q: Which devices does it work on? iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. One account works on all of them, so you can practise on your phone and review on a laptop. Q: Do I need a UK licence or a US NPI to use it? No. AskMed works worldwide, and you don't need a medical licence or an NPI to sign up. Q: Which other exams are covered? 5,499 questions in all: USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLAB, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, PLE, UKOMNAS, EDN, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, each in the exam's own language. --- URL: https://getaskmed.com/blog/best-ai-apps-for-ple Title: Best AI Apps for the Philippine PLE in 2026 | AskMed # Best AI apps for the PLE: compared Our pick first, then the other five side by side. Updated 3 November 2026 Our pick ## AskMed AskMed is our pick for the PLE: 500 single-best-answer questions across all 12 PLE subjects, built on Philippine practice, and cited medical answers, in one app. Every option has its own explanation. Questions | 500 PLE questions (5,499 across 11 exams) Format | Single best answer, 5 options Subjects | All 12 PLE subjects, from Anatomy to Legal Medicine Explanations | One for every option Sources | 1–3 per question: DOH, WHO, Philippine laws, StatPearls Modes | Practice, spaced-repetition review, timed mock (40 questions in 60 minutes) Doses | Never Devices | iPhone, iPad, Android, web ## The other options Five other apps are worth comparing with AskMed for the Philippine Physician Licensure Exam: AMBOSS, StatPearls, Lecturio, Topnotch and ChatGPT. AMBOSS combines a question bank, a medical library and a 6-month PLE study plan with two full-length mock exams. StatPearls offers a large PLE question bank built to simulate the exam. Lecturio pairs video lectures and a question bank with a PLE review schedule that adapts to you, and Topnotch is a Philippine board review course with lectures. ChatGPT is a general AI chatbot: useful for talking a topic through, but it has no PLE question bank, so you need to check its sources yourself. AskMed sits between the banks and the chatbot, with a 500-question PLE bank and cited answers to any medical question in the same app. The table below shows the type of each app and what it is best for. App | Type | Best for AMBOSS | Question bank + library + study plan | A 6-month PLE study plan with two full-length mock exams StatPearls | Question bank | A large PLE question bank built to simulate the exam Lecturio | Video lectures + question bank | A PLE review schedule that adapts to you Topnotch | Board review course | A Philippine review course with lectures for the board exam ChatGPT | General AI chatbot | Talking a topic through. It has no PLE question bank, so check its sources yourself ## What to look for in a PLE app A good PLE app should cover all 12 board subjects and teach Philippine practice, not just textbook medicine. The Physician Licensure Exam has 12 subjects of 100 questions each, and you need an average of 75 with no subject below 50, so a weak subject can sink a good overall score. That gives five things to check in a PLE app: questions tagged by PLE subject, so you can track each one; coverage of Philippine law and DOH programs for Legal Medicine and Preventive Medicine; an explanation for every option, not only the correct one; timed practice plus review of the questions you missed; and a way to read up on what a question exposed without leaving the app. Read a few sample questions and their sources before you commit to a bank. The list below explains each point and shows how AskMed's 500-question PLE bank handles it. - All 12 subjects. The PLE tests six basic sciences over the first two days and six clinical sciences over the last two. AskMed tags every question with its PLE subject, so you can see where you stand in each one. - Philippine practice, not just textbook medicine. Legal Medicine and Preventive Medicine test Philippine law and DOH programs, which foreign question banks skip. AskMed's PLE bank cites Philippine laws 38 times across 37 questions, from the Universal Health Care Act to the Mental Health Act, plus DOH manuals 8 times and WHO guidance 55 times. - An explanation for every option. In a single-best-answer question, the hard part is ruling out the options that are almost right. An app that only explains the correct answer skips that. AskMed explains every option, so you learn why each wrong answer is wrong. - Timed practice and review. Each subject is a long sitting of 100 questions, so pace matters. AskMed's timed mock is 40 questions in 60 minutes, and spaced-repetition review brings back the questions you missed until they stick. - A way to fill the gaps. A question bank shows what you don't know. AskMed also answers any medical question with citations to journals, guidelines and drug labels, so you can read up on a topic and go straight back to practice. ## AskMed's PLE bank by subject AskMed's PLE bank has 500 questions across all 12 PLE subjects: 129 easy, 254 medium and 117 hard. Internal Medicine has the most questions and Biochemistry the fewest. Legal Medicine and Ethics has 27 questions and Preventive Medicine 26: these are the two subjects that test Philippine law and DOH programs. Each question also names a subtopic, such as tuberculosis diagnosis in the sample question below. In the app the questions are also grouped into 15 topics, so you can also practise by organ system, 10 questions per session, or choose all topics to mix questions from the whole bank. Each answer feeds spaced-repetition review: a question you miss comes back after 10 minutes, and each right answer pushes it further out, to 1, 3, 7, 16 and then 35 days. The table below shows how many questions each PLE subject has. Subject | Questions Internal Medicine | 189 Pediatrics | 46 Pharmacology | 45 Microbiology and Parasitology | 37 Surgery | 32 Obstetrics and Gynecology | 28 Legal Medicine and Ethics | 27 Preventive Medicine | 26 Pathology | 22 Physiology | 21 Anatomy | 14 Biochemistry | 13 ## See a question PLE Medicine · Tuberculosis diagnosis Easy A 42-year-old tricycle driver from Tondo has had a productive cough for 3 weeks, evening fevers and weight loss. Under the DOH National TB Program, which test is the recommended initial diagnostic test for this presumptive TB patient? - A Serum TB antibody test Commercial serologic tests are not recommended for TB diagnosis. - B Tuberculin skin test The tuberculin skin test detects infection, not active disease, and is not used to diagnose pulmonary TB in adults. - C Interferon-gamma release assay IGRA also detects TB infection and cannot distinguish active disease. - D Rapid molecular test (Xpert MTB/RIF) Correct. The NTP Manual of Procedures (6th edition) uses a WHO-recommended rapid diagnostic test such as Xpert MTB/RIF as the primary test for presumptive TB, which also detects rifampicin resistance. - E Sputum culture as the only test before treatment Culture is slow; it is used for drug-susceptibility testing and follow-up, not as the initial test. Tap an answer to see why each option is right or wrong. Source: DOH National TB Control Program Manual of Procedures, 6th edition ## Questions Q: Is AskMed's PLE bank written by AI on the spot? AskMed's PLE questions are not written by AI on the spot. Every question comes from a fixed bank that was written and checked before it went into the app, and only questions marked as reviewed are served. Each PLE question has five different options, one explanation per option, and one to three sources you can open, such as a DOH manual, a WHO guideline or a Philippine law. Every source is a link, so you can check an explanation against the guideline or reference it comes from. If a question looks wrong, tap Report question in the app. A question reported by two or more people is held back until it is checked. When you practise, AskMed serves the questions you have not seen yet first, then the ones you saw longest ago, so you work through the whole 500-question PLE bank before questions repeat. Q: Does it cover Legal Medicine? Yes. Legal Medicine and Ethics questions cover Philippine laws a physician needs, such as the Medical Act of 1959, the Data Privacy Act, the Anti-Hospital Deposit Law and the Dangerous Drugs Act. Q: Can I use it alongside a review center? Yes. Many PLE takers attend a review course for lectures and use a question bank for practice. AskMed fits in the gaps: a few timed questions on your phone and a cited answer when a lecture leaves you with a question. Q: Does AskMed give drug doses? No. Questions test the right choice of treatment, never doses. Q: Which devices does it work on? iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. One account works on all of them, so you can practise on your phone and review on a laptop. Q: Do I need a PRC licence to use it? No. AskMed works worldwide, and graduates can sign up before they are licensed. Q: Which other exams are covered? 5,499 questions in all: USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK, PLAB, NEET-PG, ENARM, TUS, PLE, UKOMNAS, EDN, Ghana MDC and Israel MLE, each in the exam's own language.