Written by Dr. Roupen Odabashian MD, FRCPC, FASC
Hematologist-Oncologist | Founder, MeDucation AI | Updated July 2026
What is MeDucation AI?
MeDucation AI is a hematology-oncology board preparation and clinical reasoning platform built around a physician-authored question bank with an AI study layer wrapped around it. Every one of its 1000+ questions is written and reviewed by practicing hematologist-oncologists, and every question carries direct PubMed references, explanations for why each distractor is wrong, embedded diagnostic images and tables, and a concise teaching summary. It is built primarily for hematology-oncology fellows preparing for the ABIM Hematology and Medical Oncology board exams, and secondarily for medical students who want the same AI study tools applied to their own material.
I am Dr. Roupen Odabashian, a practicing hematologist-oncologist, and I founded MeDucation AI. What follows is a plain description of what the product is, what it costs, what it does well, and, just as importantly, where it falls short and who should look elsewhere.
Who writes MeDucation's questions?
Practicing hematology-oncology physicians review every question. Real clinicians review the questions, craft the explanations, and validate the sources.
In practice this means a few concrete things. Each question has an explanation for every answer choice, not just a paragraph on the correct answer, but a specific reason each distractor is wrong, because distractor logic is where most of the actual learning happens. Each question links to direct PubMed references, so you can go read the trial or the guideline that the answer rests on rather than trusting a paragraph of prose. Many questions embed diagnostic images and tables, smears, imaging, staging tables, because heme/onc is a visual specialty and a text-only bank teaches you to recognize words, not pathology. Each question ends with a concise teaching summary, the one thing you should remember six weeks later.
The reading and interface tools are deliberately unglamorous: AI Read Aloud for hands-free study on a commute or between clinic patients, adjustable text size, and highlight, underline and strikethrough tools while you work through a stem. You can see the full breakdown on the hematology-oncology features page.
What does the AI layer actually do?
The AI in MeDucation does not write the medicine, it restructures material you already trust into formats that are easier to retain. That distinction is the whole design philosophy. AI is applied to your notes, your PDFs, and your uploaded guidelines. It is not applied to the authoring of clinical content.
Notebook
You write notes as text. The AI turns them into visual diagnostic and treatment algorithms, generates flashcards scheduled with FSRS spaced repetition (the same modern scheduling algorithm used by Anki), lets you chat with your own notes through Ask My Notes, and generates board-exam-style quizzes from your own material.
Mind Maps
Dynamic, interactive mind maps generated from your notes. They auto-regenerate as you add material, and you can expand, collapse, rearrange and edit individual branches rather than accepting whatever the model spat out.
Knowledge Graph
A living graph visualizing relationships between diseases, drugs, genes, biomarkers and clinical trials across all of your notebooks. Click any node to see its connections and which notebooks it appears in. It gets richer the more you use the platform, which is honest to say out loud: on day one it is nearly empty.
Learning Hub
Upload any PDF, guideline or lecture. The AI generates board-style quizzes and FSRS flashcards from it, and can produce editable lecture slides with custom images, exportable as an animated PowerPoint. This is the feature fellows use for journal club and teaching duties, not just for the exam.
Podcast Radio Station
These are not AI-generated podcasts. They are real, human-hosted hematology and oncology podcasts, curated and reviewed by practicing oncologists and hematologists, organized by topic, with note-taking that feeds directly back into your Notebook.
Feature summary
Feature | What it does | Who it's for |
|---|---|---|
Question Bank (1000+ questions) | Physician-written and physician-reviewed MCQs with explanations for every answer choice, embedded images and tables, direct PubMed references, and a teaching summary per question | Heme/onc fellows sitting the ABIM boards |
Notebook | Turns your text notes into visual diagnostic and treatment algorithms; generates FSRS flashcards and board-style quizzes; "Ask My Notes" chat | Fellows and students who take notes and want them to do more work |
Mind Maps | Interactive maps generated from your notes; auto-regenerate as notes grow; branches can be expanded, collapsed, rearranged, edited | Visual learners organizing large disease areas |
Knowledge Graph | Living graph of relationships between diseases, drugs, genes, biomarkers and clinical trials across all your notebooks | Long-horizon learners building a connected mental model |
Learning Hub | Upload a PDF, guideline or lecture → board-style quizzes, FSRS flashcards, and editable lecture slides exportable as animated PowerPoint | Fellows with teaching obligations; anyone studying from guidelines |
Podcast Radio Station | Human-hosted heme/onc podcasts curated by practicing oncologists, organized by topic, with note-taking that feeds the Notebook | Commuters and passive-review learners |
AI Read Aloud & study tools | Hands-free question audio, adjustable text size, highlight / underline / strikethrough | Anyone studying between clinical duties |
How much does MeDucation AI cost?
MeDucation AI costs $225/year, which works out to $18.75/month, for hematology/oncology fellows, and $18/month for medical students, or $180/year (works out to $15/month) on the student annual plan. All individual plans include a 1-week free trial, and you can cancel any time before billing starts. Fellows can also pay $149 for 3 months or $180 for 6 months. Checkout runs through Stripe. Current pricing is always on the pricing page.
Plan | Price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
Heme/Onc Fellows. Annual (most recommended) | $225/yr (works out to $18.75/mo) | 1000+ board-style physician-authored questions, full explanations and algorithms for every question, PubMed links, AI read-aloud, performance dashboard and analytics, active reading tools, ABIM-style board prep workflow, standard support. Shorter terms are also available: $149 for 3 months and $180 for 6 months. |
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 |
Medical Students. Annual (most recommended) | $180/yr (works out to $15/mo) | The same student feature set, billed once a year |
Institutions. Program License | Custom | MeDucation for every fellow in the program, plus a Program Director dashboard. Contact info@meducationai.com |
Institutions. Medical School Site License | Custom | Institution-wide access. Contact info@meducationai.com |
Who is MeDucation AI for?
MeDucation AI is built first for hematology-oncology fellows preparing for the ABIM Hematology and Medical Oncology board exams. That is the person the question bank was written for, question by question, by physicians who sat those exams.
It also serves three adjacent groups. Medical students use the student plan for the AI study layer. Notebook, mind maps, knowledge graph, Learning Hub, Mind Palace, Podcast Radio Station, applied to their own coursework rather than to heme/onc MCQs. Fellowship programs license MeDucation for all fellows and get a Program Director dashboard. Practicing hematologists and oncologists use it for maintenance-of-certification-style review and to keep current through the podcast station and Learning Hub, though I would not claim we are purpose-built for that.
The common thread: it suits people who want to know why an answer is right, want a citation they can open, and are willing to build their own notes rather than consume a pre-packaged review book. If you want a passive product you can read on a couch, this is the wrong tool.
How does MeDucation compare to traditional question banks?
MeDucation gives you depth per question, source transparency, and an AI layer that works on your own material. Those are genuinely different bets, and which one is right depends on what is failing in your study.
A traditional bank hands you a large volume of questions and, in the case of the well-established ones, a percentile telling you where you sit. What most of them do not give you is a PubMed link on every question, an explanation for every distractor, or any way to turn your notes into algorithms, flashcards and a knowledge graph. MeDucation was built because the questions I trusted most as a fellow were the ones I could trace back to a trial, and because the notes I took never became anything.
The practical answer for most fellows is that these are not mutually exclusive. Use a large bank for volume and benchmarking; use MeDucation for the questions you want to actually understand and for the study system around them. I have written a longer, deliberately even-handed breakdown of the landscape in our hematology-oncology question bank comparison, and a practical scheduling guide in how to build a 6-month study plan for the ABIM heme/onc boards.
Frequently asked questions
Is MeDucation AI's content AI-generated?
MeDucation AI's question bank content is orgnized by practicing hematologists and oncologists. Our physicians use the guidelines to guide them on what kind of questions to write, then they use AI to help them write high-quality questions, and after that they review every question. The physician decides the topics that are worth generating questions from. The physician decides the degree of difficulty: the physician reviews the question. The AI only helps write the question
How many questions does MeDucation AI have?
MeDucation AI has 1300+ physician-authored questions. Every question includes explanations for all answer choices, embedded diagnostic images and tables where relevant, a direct PubMed reference, and a concise teaching summary. It is a focused bank built for depth per question rather than raw volume.
Does MeDucation AI give me a percentile or predict whether I'll pass?
Yes. MeDucation AI does not provide a norm-referenced percentile compared to other people who sold the question bank. for Enterprise and Fellowship programs, we also provide a reference percentile to rank you against your peers in an anonymized table, where you see where you stand, but you don't see the performance of the others
Who founded MeDucation AI?
MeDucation AI was founded by Dr. Roupen Odabashian MD, FRCPC a practicing hematologist-oncologist. The platform's editorial standard is that practicing hematology-oncology clinicians write the questions, craft the explanations, and validate the sources.
Is there a free trial, and can I cancel?
Yes. All individual MeDucation AI plans include a 1-week free trial, and you can cancel any time before billing starts. Checkout is handled through Stripe. For students, annual billing ($180/year) costs less than paying month to month ($18/month).
Can a fellowship program or medical school buy MeDucation for everyone?
Yes. MeDucation AI offers a Program License, which gives every fellow access plus a Program Director dashboard, and a Medical School Site License for institution-wide access. Both are custom-priced, contact info@meducationai.com.
The short version
MeDucation AI is a hematology-oncology board prep and clinical reasoning platform: 1000+ questions written and reviewed by practicing heme/onc physicians, each with per-distractor explanations and a direct PubMed reference, plus an AI study layer. Notebook, mind maps, knowledge graph, Learning Hub, curated human podcasts, that works on your own notes and documents. It costs $225/year for fellows, which works out to $18.75/month, and $18/month or $180/year for medical students, with a 1-week free trial. It does not give you a percentile, it is not the biggest bank on the market, and neither we nor anyone else has a published trial proving it raises pass rates. What it does give you is content a physician wrote, a citation you can open, and a system that turns your notes into something you will actually remember.
