To start navigating the AMBOSS platform, log into your account and select the option that best suits you: Learning, Clinical Care, or Teaching. Don't worry, you can easily move between these sections of the platform once you get started!
Depending on whether you have set the AMBOSS platform to Clinician Mode or Student Mode, your AMBOSS sidebar will be arranged differently. You can update your platform mode via the dropdown in the top left of the AMBOSS platform.
Learning
Qbank
You can start covering the material of your study objective through the Study Plans or by creating a Custom Session by clicking on the Qbank.
Our Study Plans are divided into pre-made blocks of questions based on subcategories for each USMLE Step and NBME Shelf exam. You'll be able to find all Study plans in the Learning > Study plans & courses tab.
You can also create your own custom study plans directly in the Study Plans section. Just click 'Create study plan':
Choose your study objective, your target end date for your studies, what days of the week you are planning to study, how many hours per day you want to dedicate to the study plan, and you're all set! You can also further tailor it to specific Systems or Discplines so that it meets your current needs. Our platform will prepare everything for you to be able to cover all the necessary content, adjusting the plan to your preferred schedule.
To create individual Question Sessions, you can visit the Qbank and use our many filters to create random blocks of questions based on your own Study Objective, the Difficulty level, the Topics, or their Status. To explore those filters, click here:
Analysis & Score predictor
You’ll be able to see your progress and study recommendations in the Analysis section and use the AMBOSS Score Predictors to help you determine which areas you need to focus on and how you’re performing compared to other AMBOSS users. In the Analysis section, you can choose between Study Summary, Performance, and Session Analysis.
Choosing Study Summary will provide you with an overview of your total progress on the platform based on your Current Study Objective and give you recommendations on areas of study you should focus on. You will be able to create new Qbank sessions or head to articles in our Library directly from this screen.
Performance lets you check out your Equated Percent Correct and Peer Group Comparison. These statistics help you determine how your studies are progressing over time.
Session Analysis breaks down each of your recent Qbank sessions individually, providing recommendations based on each specific session. Here, you can also see an overview of the questions answered in a specific session.
Our Score Predictor is a tool that predicts your exam score for USMLE® Step 1, USMLE® Step 2-CK, and USMLE® Step 3, and also for COMLEX® Level 1 and COMLEX® Level 2-CE by analyzing your past practice exam results. This tool adjusts based on your Study Objective, and you can learn more about it here.
Library
In the Library tab, you can find the Articles you'd like to start by navigating through the categorization you prefer to follow, for example, By System:
Inside articles, you can use our features at the top of the page to organize your study. For example, you can use the High-Yield function if your exam is approaching, or toggle the Key Exam Info feature to activate the highlighting our physicians have done for our content based on your Study Objective. This feature will also underline in red anything you need to revise based on previous Qbank sessions (only available if you have completed questions on the topic). You can choose to read the article with your own personal highlights applied by clicking the highlighter icon.
You can also save the article to one of your Collections to help you track your progress as you work through the Library. Select the Qbank option just below the article title to start a Qbank Session with the questions relevant to this topic. More on the various Library features here.
Clinical Care
Drugs
Here you will find our Clinical Drug Database, which is the clinical drug information database by AHFS (American Hospital Formulary Service), including some additional information provided by our Physician editors.
Clinical Resources
Our main Clinician Mode features are listed in this section of the sidebar menu.
Library
In the Library tab, you can find the Articles you'd like to start by navigating through the categorization you prefer to follow, for example, By System:
Inside articles, you will be able to make use of clinical features to assist you in your day-to-day practice, such as Drug dosages, Flowcharts, Clinical Calculators, and Quick guides, which offer Diagnostic tools and Management checklists, to ensure you don’t skip any important steps.
Quick guides, our Drug database, Flowcharts, and Calculators can also be accessed via their respective tabs.
More on the various Clinical Care features here.
Teaching
The Teaching tab allows Educators and Program Administrators to manage their Learners, issue Assignments, and view analytics for their class or residency program. Access to this tab is not enabled for all users.
If you are an Educator looking to learn about these features, you can check out the Educator Tool articles in our Help Center.