Our mission

Make surgical knowledge useful at the moment it matters.

ScrubIN helps surgical learners find an answer quickly, apply it in context, and reinforce it through focused practice—without requiring another hour they do not have.

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The insight

The problem was not effort. It was retrieval.

Jane was studying constantly, but the information was not available when an attending asked a question in the OR. The minutes between cases became a frantic search across textbooks, notes, and the web.

“I did not need more information. I needed the right information, in the right context, at the right time.”

Active, case-based recall changed what she could retrieve under pressure. That led to the first product decision: do not start with a long curriculum. Start with the question the learner has right now, then offer a short case or quiz if there is time to keep going.

ScrubIN grew from that workflow, not from a generic study-app template.

The film

Walk in ready.

Thirty seconds on the problem we set out to solve, the minutes surgical learners actually have, and the Golden Retriever who became our guide.

The founders

Clinical insight and product craft, built together.

Jane defines what surgical learners need to trust and use. Nate turns that insight into a focused, scalable product. Neither discipline is an afterthought.

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Jane Ewing, MD

Co-founder & Chief Medical Officer

Clinical vision, content standards, and surgical education

Jane is a Plastic Surgery Resident at Loyola University Chicago, a graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and a former Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She leads ScrubIN’s clinical strategy and translates the realities of surgical training into useful learning experiences.

  • Clinical product strategy
  • Content and review standards
  • Clinician contributor network

Credentials are provided for biographical context; institutional affiliations do not imply endorsement.

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Nate Ewing

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer

Product vision, technology, growth, and company strategy

Nate leads product strategy, design, engineering, analytics, and growth at ScrubIN. He shaped the app around a few practical constraints Jane brought home from residency: an answer must be findable quickly, study sessions must be easy to stop and resume, and progress should never feel punitive after a hard call day.

  • Product and experience strategy
  • Technology and analytics
  • Growth, operations, and partnerships
How we earn trust

Medical education should show its work.

ScrubIN is an educational tool—not a substitute for supervised training, institutional protocols, or clinical judgment. Our product should make that boundary clearer, not bury it.

Traceable sources

Rapid references include supporting citations so learners can see where clinical information comes from.

Documented review

Reviewer names and dates appear when clinician sign-off is documented. We do not imply review that has not occurred.

Corrections built in

Learners can flag questions and references in context, helping the content improve over time.

Built in Chicago

Built close to the problem.

Jane and Nate are married co-founders, and Koji is the Golden Retriever who became the app’s guide. ScrubIN grew out of conversations after long clinical days: what was hard to find, what took too long, and what would actually help before the next case.

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