OnlineMedEd

OnlineMedEd is a medical education and board exam prep product for MD, DO and physician assistant students, sold both as an individual subscription and as a curriculum for medical schools, PA programs and residency education. Its home page opens with "Think like a doctor from the start" and calls the product an "all-in-one study system. Built by doctors. Trusted by learners."

The product is now "Powered by Archer Review". The home page says that as it transitions to the Archer Review platform, "the OnlineMedEd content trusted for over 10 years is still at our core," and the pricing page tells buyers they will be redirected to Archer Review for checkout and to log in to the new platform. The exams it names are USMLE, NBME, COMLEX-USA and PANCE/PANRE, plus rotation-specific Shelf and subject exams.

What a student gets

The core is a library of whiteboard video lessons tied to written notes and practice questions. The pricing page lists 600+ video lessons and 3,000+ illustrated note pages, and the MD and DO subscriptions include access to the complete library of OnlineMedEd's preclinical and clinical content. Study is organized around PACE, the company's learning framework, which combines integrated notes, whiteboard video lessons, multiple-choice challenge questions and memory tools for reinforcement.

Preclinical content aims to build medical understanding "from molecules to organ systems" through clinically relevant material that connects the basic sciences to practice. Clinical content covers clinical reasoning and patient care for rotations, exams and real-world practice. The Why OME page says the learning materials feature illustrations, integrated anatomy, histology and radiology, animated layovers and 3D images, and that peer reviewers work with the content team so the library avoids the duplication and dissonance of several disconnected resources.

Exam prep is split by program. For MD students, the home page describes fully integrated Step 1 and Step 2 preparation with high-yield video, question banks aligned to NBME clinical vignette style, and illustrated notes that bridge basic science to clinical reasoning. For DO students it presents itself as "A DO-first test prep platform integrating osteopathic principles and OMM": the Archer Medical question banks are mapped to NBOME blueprints, and a full OMM course is built into the preparation rather than treated as an add-on. For PA students the product covers didactic study, clinical rotations and PANCE/PANRE preparation. A separate rotation exams track targets Shelf and subject exams.

Every subscription also includes three Essentials courses: Learning How to Learn, Biostatistics, and Food as Medicine. Two smaller features sit around the library. Peer Pearls collects short insights and pro tips from students who have already been through the exams, and the Student Ambassadors program lets students become advocates for the product. The pricing page also offers the option to gift a subscription.

What medical schools and PA programs get

The educators side sells OnlineMedEd as a "longitudinal and integrated curriculum" that delivers the fundamentals asynchronously, so faculty can move their time from delivering basic content to case-based and experiential teaching in person. For MD programs it runs as a 4-year curriculum from the first day of MS 1 to the transition to residency. In the preclinical phase it can integrate into a school's basic sciences curriculum and support compressed preclinical phases and early clinical integration. In the clinical phase, its clinical sciences lessons can standardize a core clerkship curriculum and support distributed clinical training environments. For remediation programs, the site offers support for all phases of USMLE and other standardized exams.

For DO programs the curriculum runs from OMS1 to OMS4 and the transition to residency. DO partners can also access an OMM curriculum delivered through the same PACE framework, plus Osteopathic Medicine: A Core Concepts Approach, which the site describes as its OMM textbook with companion OMT videos. For PA programs the pitch is a hybrid model in which online lessons complement in-person teaching. For CME and GME programs, the site names nutrition (the Food as Medicine curriculum), women's health and its Intern Content, which prepares students for practice and clinical reasoning in the hospital setting.

Schools get an Institutional Success Team, a group of peer educators who help with curriculum mapping, faculty development and instructional design. Educators also have teaching aids, curriculum guides, training materials and recorded webinars, and institutions start the conversation through the contact form on the educators pages. The partners page lists the organizations OnlineMedEd works with, including AMSA, Phi Delta Epsilon Medical Fraternity, SOMA, LMSA, Med School Moose, PA Blueprint, Meducation and the D.O. or Do Not podcast.

Plans and prices

The pricing page publishes three subscription lengths, and the same three prices appear on the MD, DO and PA tabs:

• Annual, marked "MOST POPULAR": $30 a month, with a subscription cost of $360 billed annually. The page says this saves $588 a year over monthly subscriptions and calls it "A full year of access for less than $1/day!"
• 6 month: $48 a month, with a subscription cost of $288 billed every 6 months.
• 1 month: $79, billed every month.

What each tab includes differs. The MD option lists comprehensive Step 1 and Step 2 prep resources and 3,300+ Qbank questions. The DO option lists Level 1 and Level 2 prep resources, OMM content created by DOs specifically for DO students, and 3,300+ Qbank questions. The PA option lists 600+ preclinical and clinical whiteboard video lessons from the OnlineMedEd library, 3,000+ illustrated note pages and 2,800+ Qbank questions. All three include the Essentials courses. Group buyers are pointed to a group discount for the new Archer Medical, and institutional pricing goes through the educators team rather than a public price list.

Reach and what students say

The educators and Why OME pages claim that 86% of med students use OnlineMedEd, that it has students in 190 countries, and that 50+ institutions partner with it. A quote from Nancy Hayes, PhD, Director of Clinical Foundations at Florida State University, appears under the institutional partners heading: "Medical education has changed, and we have to change with it. OnlineMedEd gives us the tools to allow our faculty to make that change."

Student testimonials name their schools. A Boston University School of Medicine student writes: "I have used these videos for every single clerkship so far and they not only help me study in an organized way, but they also make me look good on the wards!" A Temple University School of Medicine student says: "OnlineMedEd has been phenomenal. Concepts that were just glazed over in school left me having to spend hours and hours of study time to teach myself. But with OnlineMedEd lectures, I don't have to sift through lots of material to get a thorough understanding of an important concept." A student at A.T. Still University Kirksville COM reports "a 39-point jump from my Step1 score to Step2 score", which is one student's account rather than a published outcome figure.

Who it suits and who it does not

OnlineMedEd fits MD, DO and PA students who learn well from whiteboard videos and want lectures, notes and questions in one place across preclinical study, rotations and boards. Several testimonials come from self-described visual learners, and the illustrated notes are built for that style. DO students get OMM content and NBOME-mapped questions inside the subscription instead of as an extra purchase, which counts in its favor for osteopathic programs. The 1 month plan at $79 suits a single rotation or a final push before an exam, while the annual plan at $360 is aimed at students who want it as a companion through the whole year.

Medical schools and PA programs looking for an asynchronous core curriculum, a way to standardize clerkship teaching or a remediation resource get more than a license: the Institutional Success Team offers curriculum mapping and faculty development as part of the relationship.

A couple of points to weigh. The move to the Archer Review platform means checkout and login now happen there, so returning users should expect a new interface around familiar content. The format is self-paced video, notes and questions, which suits students who are comfortable directing their own study more than those looking for live classes. Institutions need a conversation with the team before they see a price.