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The Art of Pimping

Pimping, much like medicine, is a complex mixture of art and science.

Every attending and resident who pimps has had a different experience of clinical pimping that shapes their approach and attitudes about the activity. Some use it a genuine teaching tool, some to assess knowledge, while others were taught to use it to show dominance. Regardless of intent, medical students can use the opportunity to learn, and even show-off with the right preparation! With a little shot of adrenaline from the public pop-quiz, the answer sticks in long-term memory much better than just about any other study mode.

It’s time to take back Pimping from an activity that causes stress and anxiety, to a truly useful learning mechanism for students and residents of all levels!

Jennifer Doorey, MD, MSFounder and Lead Curator, Pimped App

Curated and Convenient

We’ve developed a highly curated study-aid to help medical students excel when being pimped.

There are few resources to help stressed medical students truly prepare for the experience of getting pimped. The resources that do exist are often scattered, out of date, and inconvenient. We wanted a study tool that was comprehensive, current, and most of all, convenient! So we created Pimped!

At the surface, Pimped is a flashcard-based medical study app. Dig deeper, and you’ll discover that it is purpose-built to help medical students shine during clinical pimping, making one of medical education’s most stressful and controversial practices child’s play.

I Have My Own Card Deck, So What?

This app is only as good as its content – which is why we’ve assembled a team of top attending and resident physicians to review, curate, and tag every question in the Pimped Question Bank.

When You Need It, You Got it

When time is precious, it’s all about convenience. Have only 10 minutes between cases? Great, that’s enough to study. No matter where you are (or whether you even have Wi-Fi), you can still review and prepare with Pimped.

How it Works

You already know that spaced repetition is the ideal way to retain information. But personalized spaced repetition is the key to learning efficiency with Pimped.

Step 1: Active Recall
See the question card and think of the answer in your head.
Step 2: Metacognition
Flip over and simply rate how well you knew the answer on a scale of 1 to 5.
Step 3: Spaced Repetition
Our algorithm uses your input to display a personalized stream of cards, showing weaker cards more often until you’ve mastered the entire set.

Procedure Based

Procedures, whether at the bedside or in the operating room, can be one of the most intimidating clinical situations for pimping. But it’s also one of the most convenient times for Attendings to pimp, so it’s here to stay. Ever tried to prep for a case by looking up the procedure in Uptodate, then trying to reference the appropriate Netter diagrams, then finally asking classmates about common pimping questions if you had any remaining time? All either before 5 am rounds or at the end of a long day?

Wish there was a way to review and study to get pimped all at once? Pimped includes questions about the indications, procedure steps, complications, semi-related trivia and post-op care that Attendings love ask.

Search. Filter. Find.

Our “Card View” enables you to quickly review filtered questions and answers together, along with relevant metadata, such as your most recent study score for each card.

You can’t search books

Unlike heavy written texts or even pocket guides, we’ve designed all the data in PimpedApp to be filterable and searchable…in other words, findable.

An Evolving Question Bank

While in this view, you can also indicate if you’ve been pimped on a certain question, so our curators can stay on top of nationwide trends and ensure our question banks evolve over time – giving our users the highest yield questions.

Built for Mastery

Track your progress over the course of a clinical rotation to steadily increase mastery.

If you think you might want to specialize in a given field, you’ll want to master even the advanced questions. If you know it’s not for you, nailing the basic and intermediate questions might be all you need!

Either way, Pimped is there to help.

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Cards in the Pimped Question Bank & Growing