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Yes. You can get started free with no credit card, no ads, and no selling your data. We'll be transparent about optional paid features as they ship.

Those are built for sitting down to study: a question bank you work through, or a deck you maintain. ScrubIN starts from the other end — the question you have five minutes before a case — and gets you to a sourced answer, then connects it to PSITE, ABSITE, and OITE-aligned questions, decision scenarios, and spaced review if you have time to keep going. Most learners keep their existing question bank and use ScrubIN before cases.

Yes. Rapid references include attached citations, and reviewed items show reviewer information when documented. You can also flag a correction from inside the app. ScrubIN is for education and never replaces supervision, institutional protocols, or clinical judgment.

It is in development. iOS is available first; you can leave your email to be notified when Android ships.

Jane Ewing, MD — a Plastic Surgery Resident at Loyola University Chicago — is co-founder and Chief Medical Officer. She defines what the product teaches, how content is reviewed, and which clinical problems it solves. Nate Ewing is co-founder and Chief Product Officer, leading product, engineering, analytics, and growth. They are married co-founders based in Chicago, and their Golden Retriever Koji became the app's learning guide.

No. ScrubIN is operated by Scrubin Medical Education LLC, an independent company. We do not claim institutional endorsements. Any content reflects published surgical education guidelines, not formal endorsement from any specific institution.

Touch Surgery is excellent at what it does: 3D walkthroughs of specific operations, best used sitting down with time to spare. ScrubIN is built for the five minutes before you scrub, on any topic — not only the procedures someone funded a 3D build for. Look something up in about 60 seconds, pull the case pack for tomorrow's operation, and keep working when the signal drops. Plenty of residents will reasonably use both.

Yes. References, case packs and clinical scenarios are stored on the device after your first launch, so they open in a stairwell or a basement OR corridor. Question banks are larger, so you choose when to save them — one tap in OR Mode or Settings.

Not as a tutor, and that is deliberate. In clinical education a model that confidently states something wrong is worse than no tool at all. ScrubIN's personalization is a published spaced-repetition algorithm and statistical weak-spot targeting — explainable, auditable, and incapable of inventing a clinical claim. Content is written and reviewed by people. We are interested in AI that can only explain material we have already vetted; we are not interested in shipping a black box into surgical training.

Every question has an inline flag option in the app. Include your reasoning or a supporting source if you can; we review reports and correct confirmed issues.