Medceptor

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Always shipping.

Every release that changes how you train. The same notes pop up in the app when something new lands.

A deeper drug box — and patients who respond to it

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Your drug box just got deeper, and your patients notice.

  • More medications on hand. Pain management, anti-nausea, antihistamines, steroids, sedatives, and more are now available in Paramedic scenarios — orders your training officer used to turn down will now be carried out.
  • Vitals respond to what you give. Manage someone's pain and you'll see the expected respiratory changes when you next take vitals — subtle after a single appropriate dose, more pronounced if doses stack up. Support the patient and they come back around.
  • Protocol limits hold. Your training officer will push back on an order that runs past the protocol maximum, and a few medications need an order from medical control before they go in.

Ask for what you want the way you would on a real call — name the drug, the dose, and the route.

You decide when the scenario ends

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Previously, transferring care to an arriving ALS crew ended the scenario on the spot — even if you weren't quite done.

Now the handoff wraps up the encounter narratively, and you choose when to finish: click End Scenario when you're ready to submit for your results. Nothing else about grading changed — your handoff report is graded exactly as before.

More reliable Google sign-in

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Some of you, especially on iPhone or when opening Medceptor from a link inside another app, would occasionally see a "Sign-in didn't finish" message after choosing your Google account.

That's fixed: sign-in now recovers on its own. You may briefly see your Google account picker a second time. Pick your account and you're in. If anything still gets in the way, you'll see clear guidance instead of a dead end.

Switch your study track anytime

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You can now change your study track whenever you like, without contacting support.

Head to Settings → General → Study track, pick your new track, and the scenarios, question bank, and practice exams switch over instantly.

Your progress is saved per track: if you switch back later, you'll pick up right where you left off.

Tutorial mode: practice with a coach

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Studying for an EMS cert? Tutorial mode lets you run a scenario with a coach at your side — reps without the exam pressure:

  • Help when you ask for it. Stuck on what's next? Ask for help and it starts gentle — a nudge, then a hint, then the answer if you still need it.
  • It catches you in the moment. Do something dangerous or out of order and your training officer steps in right away, instead of you finding out at the grade sheet.
  • A live checklist. Peek at what you've covered so far and what's still open.
  • Practice stays practice. Tutorial runs don't count toward your mastery — explore freely, then switch to a scored run when you're ready.

Look for Start tutorial on any scenario, or the new Tutorial tab in the sidebar.

Family Nurse Practitioner prep

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Family Nurse Practitioner prep is here. When you sign up, you can now choose the board you're studying for:

  • FNP-C — the AANP exam.
  • FNP-BC — the ANCC exam.

Each comes with a board-aligned question bank, practice patient encounters that coach you through the full primary-care workflow — assess, diagnose, plan, and treat across the lifespan — and a timed practice exam with a readiness estimate. Your study mentor is there throughout to help you reason it out.

Respiratory therapy prep (RRT & CRT)

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Respiratory therapy prep is here. When you sign up, you can now choose a respiratory-therapy track:

  • RRT — Registered Respiratory Therapist.
  • CRT — Certified Respiratory Therapist.

Both come with a question bank built for the NBRC Therapist Multiple-Choice (TMC) written exam — a full explanation on every answer, a study mentor to help you reason through ABGs, ventilator settings, and oxygen titration, and a timed practice exam with a readiness estimate.

The RRT track adds clinical-simulation practice: realistic patient encounters modeled on the NBRC Clinical Simulation Examination (CSE), scored decision by decision with an estimated-readiness result. (The CRT track preps the written exam only.)

More AEMT patient simulations

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The AEMT track now has a much broader library of scored patient simulations — cardiac, respiratory, neurologic, OB/GYN, pediatric, toxicology, and more — each one run start to finish and graded against the AEMT skill sheet.

Sharper patient & training-officer conversations

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We put a lot of work into making scenarios feel like a real call:

  • A training officer that reads the room. It confirms your priorities and handoffs at the right moment and holds back while you're mid-assessment — instead of interrupting, nagging, or repeating itself.
  • Patients answer what you asked. Check a pulse in a specific limb, ask for a specific finding, or run a focused exam and you get a straight, on-topic reply — without the patient handing you things you're supposed to discover yourself.
  • Calls flow like the real thing. Committing to transport no longer rushes you out the door before you're ready, and staging on an unsafe scene stays consistent from turn to turn.
  • More scenarios play through cleanly. Tricky calls — like clearing a choking patient's airway — now resolve the way they should when you do the right thing.

Fairer, more accurate grading

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A big round of grading accuracy work:

  • More of your work counts. Your assessments, history-taking, vitals, oxygen and other treatments, calls for advanced support, and your transport decision now earn credit even when you phrase them your own way or spread them across several turns.
  • Fewer unfair fails. Good runs no longer get auto-failed on technicalities — like a critical-airway flag firing on a patient who's wide awake and talking to you.
  • Debriefs that match what happened. When you miss part of a step, the feedback now credits what you did and names exactly what was missing — no vague or overstated notes.
  • The right sheet for your track. Grade reports name the exam and skill for the certification you're studying, instead of an EMS default.

New certification tracks

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We've opened up new study tracks. When you sign up, you can now pick the certification you're studying for:

  • Advanced EMS — AEMT and Paramedic.
  • Nursing — CNA, LPN, and RN.
  • Critical & emergency nursing — CCRN and CEN.

Each track comes with its own question bank and practice tailored to that certification, and several include a full practice exam. Pick the one you're studying for and everything — questions, scenarios, and scoring — is scoped to your cert.

An NCLEX-style practice exam for LPN and RN

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If you're studying for the NCLEX-PN or NCLEX-RN, the practice exam now behaves like the real test:

  • It adapts to you. You answer one question at a time; the exam gets harder or easier based on how you're doing and stops once it's confident about your result — anywhere from 85 to 150 questions, just like the boards.
  • Next-Gen question formats. Beyond multiple choice, you'll practice the newer NCLEX item types — drag-and-drop, matrix grids, highlight-the-text, fill-in-the-blank, bow-tie, and more.
  • A readiness estimate at the end, instead of a raw percentage, so you know where you stand.

Chart the encounter as it happens

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Real nursing isn't just what you do — it's what you chart. In LPN and RN simulations you can now open a charting panel and document the encounter as it unfolds:

  • File as you go — focused assessments, a progress note, medications on the MAR (given, held, or refused, with your reason), intake & output, and your SBAR handoff. As an LPN, that tab is your report to the supervising RN, ready the moment something needs escalating.
  • Time-stamped like a real record. Every entry is stamped when you file it, so when you charted counts — and you can file an amendment or flag a late entry, just like the real thing.
  • A separate documentation review. After the run you get its own breakdown of what you charted. It's feedback only — it never changes whether you passed.

A study mentor on the question bank

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Drilling questions on one of the new tracks? A study mentor is one tap away, right on the question page:

  • Ask it anything you're stuck on — a concept, a confusing question, or where to even begin.
  • It coaches, it doesn't cheat. The mentor helps you reason through the question in front of you before it ever hands you the answer — and it won't give answers away mid-exam.
  • It speaks your cert. Whether you're studying for the NCLEX-PN, NCLEX-RN, CCRN, CEN, the CNA exam, your respiratory boards, or the FNP boards, it coaches in that cert's language.

Read the monitor

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Paramedic scenarios now hand you the diagnostics instead of narrating them:

  • Interpret it yourself. When the moment comes, you're shown the 12-lead ECG, the cardiac rhythm strip, or the capnography waveform — and the read is yours to make.
  • One attempt, like exam day. Your first answer is your answer, and it counts toward your grade.
  • The strip stays with you. Once read, the rhythm strip stays pinned beside the call so you can keep an eye on your patient for the rest of the run.

Clearer answer review

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When you review a question after submitting, the correct answer is now shown in full text instead of only a letter.

For Build a List ordering questions, the answer dropdowns and the correct-order summary show the full text of every choice, so it's clear which answer belongs in each position.

Practice scenarios that aren't scored

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Some calls — like an emergency childbirth or a behavioral-crisis scenario — don't map to an NREMT patient-assessment scoring sheet, so grading them that way wasn't fair to a great run.

  • Clearly labeled. These now show a Practice — not scored tag on the scenario list and details page.
  • Play them start to finish. At the end you'll see a note that the run was for practice instead of a score.
  • Everything else is unchanged. Scenarios that do fit a scoring sheet are scored exactly as before.

Speak instead of type

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You can now speak instead of type. A microphone button sits right next to Send anywhere you chat with Medceptor — in patient scenarios and with your study assistant.

  • Two ways to talk. Click the mic to start and stop, or press and hold to talk and release when you're done.
  • Made for clinical language. It's tuned to hear medications, conditions, and assessment terms, so what you say comes out right.
  • You stay in control. Your words drop into the text box to review and edit — nothing sends until you do.

Faster, smoother browsing

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We've tidied up the experience across medceptor.com:

  • Quicker pages. Guides and articles show up right away instead of waiting to animate in as you scroll.
  • Smoother first load. A brief flicker some visitors saw when the homepage first opened is gone.
  • General polish throughout for a cleaner, more consistent read.

A new front door: medceptor.com, rebuilt

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The new medceptor.com shows the product instead of describing it: a real graded attempt replays right on the homepage — dispatch, patient dialogue, vitals, and the skill sheet checking off in real time.

Also new:

  • Pricing on the homepage. No "see membership plans" wall — the numbers are right there.
  • A public changelog (you're reading it) so you can see the platform improving week to week.
  • This What's New popup in the app — one short note when something ships that matters to you. Dismiss it and it stays gone until the next release.

Clearer debriefs on every rubric item

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Every rubric item in your grade report now carries a structured debrief:

  • The standard — what the NREMT sheet actually asks for.
  • Your evidence — the exact words from your transcript the grader scored.
  • Next step — the concrete phrase or action to practice for the next attempt.

The goal: you should never see a score and wonder why.

All your practice in one place

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Your practice history now lives in one place:

  • Everything together — scenarios and question-bank sessions side by side.
  • An activity graph so you can see your streak at a glance.
  • Grades by topic — spot the areas to focus on next.

Dark mode

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You can now switch Medceptor to a dark theme — easier on the eyes for late-night studying. Set it yourself, or let it follow your device's system setting.

A home base for your training

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Signing in now drops you onto a home screen built around your progress:

  • Your stats and streak, front and center.
  • Pick up where you left off — resume an in-progress scenario in one tap.
  • Recommended scenarios chosen for where you are in your training.

Plans & subscriptions

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Medceptor now has clear, transparent plans:

  • Pricing up front — no wall to see the numbers.
  • Secure checkout when you're ready to upgrade.
  • Manage anytime — change or cancel your plan whenever you like.

A 1,000+ question practice bank

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Beyond scenarios, you can now drill the fundamentals:

  • 1,000+ practice questions across the NREMT topics.
  • Clear explanations on every answer — learn the why, not just the what.
  • Bookmarks and a progress view so you can come back to what's hard.

Meet the Preceptor Bot

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Stuck on a concept? The new Preceptor Bot is a study assistant built right into Medceptor — ask it EMS questions in plain language and get a clear answer to keep you moving.

A library of 100+ scenarios

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The scenario library has grown to 100+ patient scenarios spanning many emergency types — medical and trauma, routine and complex.

Search and filter to train exactly the kind of call you want to practice.

Trauma calls, covered

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Medceptor now covers trauma as well as medical calls. Run a full trauma patient assessment with a simulated patient and get scored against the official trauma skill sheet — the same instant, decision-by-decision feedback you get on every scenario.

Create your account

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You can now create a Medceptor account — sign up with email or with Google — so your scenarios, scores, and progress are saved and ready wherever you sign in.

A new era: live patient simulations

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Medceptor just took a big leap: live, conversational patient simulations.

Step into a realistic EMS call, talk to a simulated patient, work with your training officer, and make real clinical decisions as the scenario unfolds.

When you're done, every decision is scored against the official NREMT skill sheet, with an instant debrief so you know exactly what to sharpen next time.

Study guides for the core EMT topics

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We added a library of EMT study guides covering the topics that trip people up most — patient assessment, medications, OPQRST and SAMPLE histories, and more — all written and reviewed by certified EMS educators.

Where it all began

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Medceptor started with a simple goal: help EMT students walk into their exam ready.

The first version brought practice questions online so you could study anywhere — the foundation everything since has been built on.