About PreMD

Mission

PreMD is a centralized system for medical training records and planning. It gives students one place to privately store, organize, analyze, plan, and export the information associated with becoming a physician, beginning in undergraduate education and continuing through medical school. It also creates a carefully separated path for adults who choose to contribute a minimized application-cycle snapshot so future students can learn from privacy-reviewed school, timing, and state patterns rather than isolated anecdotes.

Principles

• Free. The platform is provided at no charge. Exam registration and application fees are unavoidable; preparation and organization costs shouldn't be.
• Your data is yours. Records are private to your account, protected by row-level security, and exportable in full, as structured JSON and per-section spreadsheets, at any time. A backup you export can be restored in full. PreMD is a repository for your record, not a lock on it.
• Private by default. No advertisements, no selling of data, no third-party trackers. Even fonts are served from our own domain. The optional AI assistant runs on your device by default; document imports are parsed entirely in your browser.
• Community benefit by choice. Personal outcome charts stay on the device/account record. Community contribution is separate, off by default, previewed field by field, limited to adults who affirm the cycle is theirs, and never required to view released results or use private tools. Real collection remains disabled until the documented legal, privacy, security, and release gates are complete.
• Evidence over hype. The MCAT planner's structure (spaced repetition, active recall, timed practice with full review, weekly full-length analysis) follows methods with strong research support, and the reasoning behind recommendations is explained where they appear.

Who builds it

PreMD is an independent project built within the premedical community and operated on a noncommercial basis. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the AAMC, AMCAS, AACOM, or any medical school. Questions, corrections, and collaboration inquiries are welcome at contact@premd.org.

Data sources

• School information is extracted from the AAMC Medical School Admission Requirements™ (MSAR®) public reports (2027 cycle, extracted June 2026) and reproduced for educational, non-commercial use with attribution, as those reports permit. Median GPA and MCAT figures are part of AAMC's paid MSAR database and are therefore not bundled; the platform lets you record them per school from a verified source.
• National reference figures (matriculant GPA/MCAT medians, percentiles) are approximate recent-cycle values from AAMC FACTS and published percentile tables, cited where shown; always verify current numbers with the AAMC.
• Cost figures (fees, typical ranges) come from the published AAMC and school fee schedules current at the time of writing, with dates noted where they appear. Fees change yearly; confirm on the official sites.
• Study resources linked from the platform (Khan Academy, AAMC materials, community decks) belong to their respective owners; PreMD links to them rather than republishing them.
• Community outcome figures are either clearly labeled synthetic illustrations or fixed, disclosure-reviewed aggregates from voluntary PreMD contributions. They are not official school statistics or representative admissions probabilities. The Community Outcomes Methodology explains cohort floors, suppression, count/rate bands, closed-cycle rules, and release review.

What PreMD is not

PreMD is educational information and record-keeping software. It is not medical, legal, financial, or admissions advice; nothing in it predicts or guarantees an admissions outcome or an exam score. Where the platform summarizes your record, it describes what you have entered; decisions belong to you and the people who advise you.