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I’m really finding this to be much more user friendly than the old app. I really like how easy it is to track and and submit your CME on this. Currently I have the Internal Medicine Gold Subscription, but once I get my next bolus of CME money I plan on upgrading to the Platinum so I can listen to the IM Board Review content, and other subspecialties. It’s user friendly enough that I’m blowing through the content pretty quickly (listen to it when I’m walking / gardening / doing chores). Also like the written summaries, as if you’re listening while multitasking or if you’re a visual learner it helps to reinforce the lectures.

The good: Some of the speakers are amazing and a well delivered, organized description of the topic can enlighten a clinician on how to start taking better care of patients with a problem. It is pretty easy to accumulate CME. It does work across different devices (phone, iPad, laptop). The bad: The app is a little bit disorganized. Not intuitive to make your own playlist. The lectures you purchased are mixed with other ones that you can pay for. I hate that. The app is buggy. Not on the same level as what I’ve come to expect from well established apps. Some of the lectures are disorganized and not helpful. Thus, rating of 3/5.

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I have a 38 minute commute so listening to CME works for me. I’ve been using Platinum subscriptions for about 5 years. I’ve learned a lot, but it’s not nearly good enough. New lectures come out too infrequently for the price. The quality is variable. About 25% are poor quality, 50% are good and 25% are great. Too many speakers are referring to slides which I obviously can’t see. The app could be more stable, when it freezes and you’re driving you obviously can’t fix it. The search function is poor. Keep trying AudioDigest, you can do better, especially at this price!

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Every time I launch it, I always hope the app will just spontaneously start working better than all the times previous to it. It seems to sputter at the most inconvenient times, and there’s a surprising difficulty in getting back to a lecture that spontaneously closes. I get frustrated, move on to more reliable platforms while I cool off, then invariably return 6 months later only to break away once again to go to other more reliable sources. It’s better than the unusable previous app, but this is truly not much better. Learning shouldn’t be so difficult and frustrating.

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Programs do not always upload as expected. I have had to call the help desk 4 times in 6 months because the programs are missing. The staff always says to delete the app and then reinstall it. There was a problem in September 2018 where I had not received any new programs in 3 months because the app was being reformulated. I have been a subscriber since the late 1980’s. The content is great but the app doesn’t work very well. I stick with it because I get a lot out of the content. I think it will be hard to entice new subscribers who expect more from the technology they purchase