How our content is made
Trust matters when you’re studying for boards. Here’s an honest look at where AnkiBoss explanations come from, how we keep them current, and how to use them the right way.
Generated for boards prep
Each explanation is produced by a medical-education model prompted to write specifically for USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 study — a concise, high-yield summary first, then a deeper pass on pathophysiology, clinical significance, and the key associations a student is expected to know. Every entry is structured into the same fields: a short summary, fuller detail, a medical category, organ-system tags, and the references it draws on.
Grounded in standard references
Explanations are written to reflect the established medical-education canon that boards questions are built from — the standard textbooks and review resources medical students already use. We ask for evidence-based, board-relevant facts rather than fringe detail, and store the references each explanation cites so you can see where a fact comes from.
Kept in sync, automatically
When you study, the add-on keeps its local glossary current by quietly pulling new and updated explanations in the background. So when an entry is improved on our side, the corrected version reaches your cards on the next sync — no manual updates, no reinstall.
Improved by the people using it
Spot something off? Open any term’s popup and hit Reportwith a quick note. Reports flow into a review queue so explanations can be corrected at the source and pushed back out to everyone. You can also submit terms we don’t cover yet — when enough students request the same one, it gets added to the glossary.
Using AnkiBoss responsibly
AnkiBoss is a study aid for exam preparation. Its explanations are written to help you learn and recall high-yield facts for the USMLE — they are not medical advice, not a clinical reference, and must never be used to diagnose, treat, or guide the care of a real patient.
Automatically generated content can occasionally be incomplete or wrong. Treat AnkiBoss the way you’d treat a well-made set of shared flashcards: a fast, convenient layer over your studying that still deserves a sanity-check against your primary resources before you commit a fact to memory. When you find a mistake, reporting it makes the glossary better for the next student.
What we don’t claim
We don’t claim that a physician hand-verifies every individual card — at glossary scale that wouldn’t be honest. What we do is generate explanations against established board-prep material, keep everything in sync, and correct entries as users report them. Transparency about that process is the point of this page.
Want to see the explanations for yourself? Browse the public glossary or read more about the product on the about page. Questions about content accuracy? Email support@ankiboss.com.