Written by Dr. Roupen Odabashian MD, FRCPC, FASC
Hematologist-Oncologist | Founder, MeDucation AI | Updated July 2026
MeDucation AI costs $18/month for medical students, or $180/year, which works out to $15/month, on the annual plan. Hematology/oncology fellows pay $225/year, which works out to $18.75/month. Every individual plan includes a 1-week free trial, and you can cancel any time before billing starts. Fellows can also pay for shorter terms: $149 for 3 months, $180 for 6 months, or $225 for the year. The annual plan is the one flagged as most recommended, and it is the cheapest per month. Institutions pay custom pricing for a Program License or a Medical School Site License. Checkout runs through Stripe. Those are the numbers.[1]
Conflict of interest, stated up front: I am Roupen Odabashian, a hematologist-oncologist and the founder of MeDucation AI. I built this product. I also wrote this page, and I have tried to write it the way I would answer a co-fellow who asked me over coffee whether it was worth their money, which means there is a long section below telling you when the honest answer is no.
How much does MeDucation AI cost?
Here is the full plan structure, live on the MeDucation AI pricing page[1].
Plan | Price | What's included | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
Medical Students. Monthly | $18/mo | Unlimited notebooks with mind maps and knowledge graph, AI flashcards with spaced repetition, Learning Hub PDF-to-study-material conversion, Podcast Radio Station, Mind Palace access. | Preclinical and clinical medical students who want the AI study layer applied to their own material. |
Medical Students. Annual | $180/yr (works out to $15/mo) (most recommended) | Identical to the monthly student plan, billed once a year. | Students who know they want it for the year and would rather not pay the monthly premium. |
Hematology/Oncology Fellows. Annual | $225/yr (works out to $18.75/mo) (most recommended) | 1000+ board-style heme/onc physician-authored questions, full explanations and algorithms for every question, PubMed links, AI read-aloud, performance dashboard and analytics, active reading tools, an ABIM-style board prep workflow, and standard support. | Fellows preparing for the ABIM hematology and medical oncology board exams. |
Program License | Custom | MeDucation for every fellow in the program, plus a Program Director dashboard. | Fellowship programs. Email info@meducationai.com. |
Medical School Site License | Custom | Institution-wide student access, plus a faculty admin dashboard. | Medical schools. Email info@meducationai.com. |
Fellows also have shorter billing options, 3 months and 6 months, alongside the annual plan. I am not going to quote you the 3- and 6-month dollar figures here, because pricing pages change and I would rather you read the live number than trust a blog post. The annual figure I will stand behind: $225 a year. Check the pricing page for the shorter terms.
What are the fellow billing options?
Three terms, one plan. The longer the term, the less you pay per month.
Term | Price | Works out to |
|---|---|---|
3 months | $149 | about $49.67/month |
6 months | $180 | $30/month |
12 months (most recommended) | $225 | $18.75/month |
If you are more than six months out from your exam, the annual plan is the only one that makes financial sense. The 3-month plan costs two thirds of the annual plan for a quarter of the time, so only take it if you are genuinely in the final stretch.
What do you actually get on the fellow plan?
There is one fellow plan now, not a tiered menu, which spares you the worst kind of purchasing decision, the one where you are trying to guess which features you will regret not buying. Here is what is in it.
What's included on the fellow plan ($225/year) |
|---|
1000+ board-style hematology/oncology questions, physician-authored |
Full explanations and algorithms for every question |
PubMed links on the claims the explanations rest on |
AI read-aloud |
Performance dashboard and analytics |
Active reading tools (highlight, underline, strikethrough, adjustable text) |
An ABIM-style board prep workflow |
Standard support |
AI usage limits apply to the AI features; the current limits are listed on the pricing page and I am not going to paraphrase numbers that can change. If you are unsure whether the product fits your week, that is exactly what the free trial is for.
Is there a free trial?
Yes, a 1-week free trial, on every individual plan, student and fellow, and you can cancel any time before billing starts.[1] Use it properly. Do not "try it" by clicking around for eleven minutes. Do a real 40-question block. Upload an actual guideline PDF you were going to read anyway and see whether the quiz it produces is any good. If the product does not earn a place in your week within that week, cancel. That is what the trial is for.
What makes the question bank different?
All 1000+ questions were written and reviewed by practicing, board-certified hematology-oncology physicians. They are not AI-generated. In 2026 that sentence matters, because generating 5,000 plausible-looking MCQs with a language model is now trivially cheap, and a plausible-looking question with a subtly wrong distractor is worse than no question at all.
Each question carries an explanation for every answer choice, why the right answer is right and why each distractor is wrong, plus embedded diagnostic images and tables, direct PubMed references, and an end-of-question teaching summary. The Podcast Radio Station is likewise curated real human-hosted heme/onc podcasts selected by practicing oncologists, not synthetic audio. You can see the full breakdown on the heme/onc features page.
How does MeDucation's price compare to other heme/onc board prep?
I verified every figure below on the vendor's own site in July 2026. Where a number is not publicly published, I say so rather than guess.
Resource | Verified 2026 price | Honest verdict |
|---|---|---|
MeDucation AI. Heme/Onc Fellows | $225/year, which works out to $18.75/mo[1] | 1000+ physician-written questions with full explanations, algorithms, and PubMed links. Newest bank here; no cohort percentile data. Shorter 3- and 6-month billing terms also available; 1-week free trial. |
HOQ (Hematology Oncology Questions) | $65 for 6 months; 2,600+ questions[2] | The best value per dollar in this entire market, full stop. One physician has written and maintained it since 2014. If you buy one thing, and money is tight, buy this. I say that as a competitor. |
BoardVitals Hematology & Oncology | $159/1 mo, $259/3 mo, $429/6 mo; 600+ active questions[3] | Established platform with a long answer-data history and strong analytics. Meaningfully more expensive per month than either MeDucation or HOQ. |
ASCO-SEP (digital subscription) | $440 ASCO member / $550 non-member[4][5] | The reference standard for medical oncology self-assessment. Expensive individually, but ASCO offers training programs a 50% group discount, so ask your program before you pay retail.[5] |
ASH-SAP, 9th edition (digital) | $180 Resident/GradMed Student rate; $540 non-member[6] | The hematology counterpart, and the trainee rate is genuinely fair. Print + digital runs $261 trainee / $657 non-member.[6] |
MD Anderson Comprehensive Board Review 2026 | Full conference: $800 resident/fellow, $1,200 physician (early-bird)[7] | A live course, not a question bank, different category, different job. Good if you learn by lecture and your program has education funds. |
GW Hematology & Oncology Best Practices 2026 | Full 7-day session: $2,800 individual; $2,400 fellow/trainee rate[8] | Comprehensive and well-regarded. Also the single largest line item on this list. Almost nobody should pay this out of pocket. |
TrueLearn | No hematology/oncology SmartBank is listed on TrueLearn's subscription page as of July 2026, it offers Internal Medicine (IM Prep) but not a heme/onc subspecialty bank.[9] | Not a heme/onc option today. I am not going to invent a price for a product that does not appear to exist. |
ABIM subspecialty exam fee (context) | $2,325 for Hematology or Medical Oncology[10] | This is what the exam itself costs. Every prep decision above is a rounding error next to failing and paying it twice. |
I've written a longer, deeper feature-by-feature breakdown in the 2026 question bank comparison if you want the full analysis.
Is MeDucation AI worth it?
Here is the most important paragraph on this page: there is no published outcome trial showing that MeDucation AI improves board pass rates. There is also no published outcome trial showing that BoardVitals, HOQ, ASCO-SEP, ASH-SAP, or any live board review course improves board pass rates. Nobody in this market has that evidence. Anyone who implies they do is selling you something. When you choose a resource, you are choosing based on question quality, workflow fit, and price, not on proven outcomes, because proven outcomes do not exist here.
Within those honest limits, MeDucation is worth $225 a year if: you are a fellow who wants questions written by oncologists rather than by a model; you want an answer explanation that teaches rather than asserts, with an algorithm and a PubMed link behind it; and you want a performance dashboard that shows you where you are actually weak rather than where you feel weak. That is the case for buying.
Who shouldn't buy MeDucation AI?
Genuinely, do not buy it if:
You need a norm-referenced percentile. If knowing "I am at the 62nd percentile of everyone who answered this question" is what tells you whether you are safe, MeDucation cannot give you that. Banks that have collected cohort answer data for a decade can. That is a real, durable, structural advantage and I am not going to pretend otherwise. Buy the bank with the data.
You want the biggest possible question pool. 1000+ questions is a focused, curated bank. It is not the largest on the market, HOQ alone has 2,600+.[2] If your study philosophy is maximum volume, we are not your first purchase.
You are six weeks out and need to grind. If the exam is close and your job is raw timed volume under exam conditions, buy the biggest calibrated bank you can afford and do it now. This is not the moment to adopt a new knowledge-management workflow.
Your program already pays for ASCO-SEP or ASH-SAP. Then use them first. They are free to you, they are excellent, and spending your own money before exhausting what your institution already bought is simply a bad financial decision. Ask your program coordinator today.
Your budget is $65 total. Then buy HOQ. It is extraordinary value and I would rather you pass than that I make a sale.
Fellows are not rich. You are working 60-hour weeks on a trainee salary and you already owe ABIM $2,325 for the privilege of taking the test.[10] Spend accordingly.
What does a program license cost?
Custom, and it depends on the size of your fellowship. The Program License gives every fellow in your program access plus a Program Director dashboard so faculty can see aggregate progress and weak areas. The Medical School Site License is the equivalent for students: institution-wide student access plus a faculty admin dashboard. Both are quoted individually, email info@meducationai.com and tell us how many fellows or students you have. Most programs already have an education budget line for exactly this; it is worth asking before you pay out of pocket.
Frequently asked questions
Does MeDucation AI have a free trial?
Yes. Every individual plan, student and heme/onc fellow, includes a 1-week free trial. Billing runs through Stripe and you can cancel any time before billing starts.[1]
Are MeDucation's questions AI-generated?
No. All 1000+ questions in the heme/onc bank were written and reviewed by practicing, board-certified hematology-oncology physicians. AI is used inside the product for flashcards, mind maps, slide generation, and read-aloud, but not to write the questions. The Podcast Radio Station is also real human-hosted podcasts, not synthetic audio.
Is MeDucation AI cheaper than BoardVitals?
Yes, substantially. MeDucation's heme/onc fellow plan is $225 for a year, which works out to $18.75/month.[1] BoardVitals' Hematology and Oncology bank is $159 for one month, $259 for three months, or $429 for six months as of July 2026.[3] BoardVitals has a longer track record and cohort performance data, which is a genuine advantage; MeDucation costs less than half as much across a year of study.
What is the cheapest heme/onc question bank?
HOQ (hemeoncquestions.com), at $65 for six months of access to 2,600+ questions, is the cheapest and the best raw value per dollar in the heme/onc board prep market as of July 2026.[2] I am the founder of a competing product and I still tell fellows this.
Does MeDucation AI improve board pass rates?
There is no published outcome study demonstrating that MeDucation AI improves ABIM hematology or medical oncology board pass rates. There is also no such published study for any of its competitors. Treat any claim to the contrary, from anyone, with suspicion.
Can I get MeDucation through my fellowship program?
Yes, if your program buys a Program License. It provisions MeDucation for every fellow plus a Program Director dashboard, at custom pricing based on program size. Have your PD or coordinator email info@meducationai.com.
The short version
Students: $18 a month, or $180 a year if you pay annually, that works out to $15 a month. Fellows: $225 a year, which works out to $18.75 a month, with shorter 3- and 6-month terms also available. A 1-week free trial on all of them. If you have $65 and nothing else, buy HOQ. If your program pays for ASCO-SEP or ASH-SAP, use it. If you need percentiles, buy a bank with a decade of cohort data. And if what you want is physician-written questions with real explanations plus a system that turns everything you read into something you actually retain, that is what we built, and the trial costs you nothing. For a broader view of the landscape, see my practicing oncologist's guide to oncology board review question banks.
References
MeDucation AI. Pricing. Accessed July 2026.
Hematology Oncology Questions (HOQ). Home / Subscription. $65 for 6 months; 2,600+ questions. Accessed July 2026.
BoardVitals. Hematology and Oncology Board Review Question Bank. Cram $159/1 mo, Prepare $259/3 mo, Master $429/6 mo. Accessed July 2026.
ASCO Education, ASCO-SEP Digital Subscription. Accessed July 2026.
ASCO-SEP for Training Programs (50% group discount for training programs); pricing of $440 member / $550 non-member per ASCO-SEP FAQ (PDF). Accessed July 2026.
ASH Store, ASH Self-Assessment Program, Ninth Edition, Digital. Resident/GradMed Student $180; Non-Member $540. Print + Digital: $261 trainee / $657 non-member. Accessed July 2026.
MD Anderson, A Comprehensive Board Review in Hematology and Medical Oncology, 2026. Full conference: $800 resident/fellow, $1,200 physician (early registration). Accessed July 2026.
George Washington University CME, 2026 Hematology and Oncology Best Practices, Live Course Options. Full session $2,800; fellow/trainee rate $2,400. Accessed July 2026.
TrueLearn. Subscribe / SmartBank catalog. No hematology/oncology subspecialty SmartBank listed as of July 2026. Accessed July 2026.
American Board of Internal Medicine. Exam Fees & Refund Policies. Hematology and Medical Oncology subspecialty certification exam fee: $2,325. Accessed July 2026.
