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The free podcast for PM&R board prep
Everything you need to pass the boards, in one place.
A free 176-episode podcast covering the whole ABPMR Part I blueprint. Listen on Spotify, Apple, or right here on the site. When you’re ready to go deeper, the full study system is there too: textbook, Q-bank, flashcards, oral-board cases, and spoken-answer practice.
The podcast is free forever. No paywall, no ads, no sign-up.
The study system is in open beta and free for testers: textbook, Q-bank, flashcards, and oral cases. Send us your email and we’ll send back an access code.
Reflex · The Podcast
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Every domain on the Part I blueprint.
The free podcast and the study system
The podcast is free · the study system is free during beta
Free forever
Podcast · 176 episodes · 148 hours
ListenOn Spotify, Apple, and right here. The whole ABPMR Part I blueprint, yours to keep. No paywall, no ads, no sign-up.
Five study modes · one code opens all of them
176 episodes, mapped to the blueprint.
ABPMR Part I · 2024Click any episode to start listening. The matching chapter and board questions open in a Companion panel on the right, visible the whole time you’re listening.Tap a series to expand. Tap any episode to start listening.
The study system · free during beta
Study the whole blueprint, free.
The podcast is free forever, and while we’re in beta so is everything else: textbook, Q-bank, flashcards, oral-board cases, and Explain It dictation, every piece mapped to the episode that teaches it.
173 linked textbook chapters
1,969 board-style questions
12,748 spaced-repetition flashcards
176 oral-board cases
Explain It spoken-answer practice
Episode ↔ chapter ↔ Q mapping
Get a beta code
The full study system is built and residents are using it now. Send us your email and we’ll send back a single-use code; enter it on your account page and everything opens. No charge, no card, no commitment, and nothing you do during the beta is lost. All we ask is that you tell us what’s broken.
After the beta
A one-time purchase priced to your exam date: $250 for a year, or as little as $140 a year if you buy through your boards. No auto-renew, no card kept on file. Paying with education or CME funds? We draft the reimbursement email for you after checkout.Residency programs
Per-seat licensing for your whole program: an individual account for every resident, one annual invoice. A resident? Forward this page to your program director.
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The free podcast
Is the podcast really free?
Yes. All 176 episodes are free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and right here on the site. Forever. No paywall, no ads, no account required.
What if I spot an error or want something added?
Use the Feedback button, the pill in the bottom-right corner of every page, plus a Report issue link on each study tool. Pick a category (podcast, chapter, question, figure, flashcard, bug, or suggestion), tell us what you saw, and it auto-captures the page and episode so we can track it down. Reflex is a living resource: we read every submission and ship fixes and additions on a rolling basis, guided directly by resident feedback. Two honest caveats. A reported error has to actually be an error (we verify it against our sources before changing anything), and a request has to be reasonable and in scope. When it's right and it makes the resource better, we build it.
I have an activation code. Where does it go?
Open your account page and enter it under “Have an activation code?” Codes are single-use, and each one grants the access term it was issued for. Handy for co-residents, program purchases, and conference giveaways.
The study system
What do I get when I buy?
Everything beyond the podcast, in one bundle: all 173 companion textbook chapters, the 1,969-question Q-bank, 12,748 spaced-repetition flashcards, 176 Oral Board cases, the Explain It oral-dictation trainer, and a Study-mode slide deck plus the full figure gallery for every episode. There's no separate textbook-only or Q-bank-only tier; the integrated system is the whole product.
How does the episode ↔ chapter ↔ Q-bank mapping work?
Every chapter has its own set of linked board-style questions, and every episode is the audio for that chapter (longer chapters split into Part 1 and Part 2, each its own episode). Start an episode and the Companion panel surfaces both the chapter and its Q-bank: one tap to read, one tap to drill.
Why do some concepts show up in more than one chapter?
By design. Every chapter is built to stand on its own as a complete answer to its topic, so you can review any one in any order. Drop straight into radiculopathy or autonomic dysreflexia without replaying the fundamentals first. The principles boards test hardest resurface in each context where they matter, because seeing the same rule applied to a new clinical problem is how it locks in: that's spaced, active reinforcement, not a single buried mention you'd have to go hunting for. We keep every recurring fact consistent across the places it appears, so the repetition reinforces instead of contradicting.
What's in the Practice hub?
Four study engines in one place: Drill builds a custom Q-bank block filtered by series, blueprint weight, or difficulty; Recall is your flashcard decks; Explain is spoken-answer dictation with AI feedback; and Examine is full oral-board cases. Reach all four from the Practice tab.
How do the flashcards work?
12,748 cards covering high-yield facts, active-recall prompts, board traps, and mnemonics, scheduled by the FSRS spaced-repetition algorithm. You grade your own recall on four buttons, Not yet / Shaky / Locked / Cold, each showing the interval it will schedule, and there's a daily due queue whose size you set yourself. Your schedule syncs across every device, and you can drop into any chapter's deck straight from its episode.
What are the Oral Boards?
Full ABPMR-style cases scored across the five oral-exam domains (data acquisition, problem solving, patient management, systems-based practice, and communication), each with a mid-case complication and the board traps that catch candidates. 176 cases. You work each domain's examiner prompt in your head, then reveal the model answer and self-check against the rubric. The cases are study material, not an automated grader.
What is Explain It?
It's the learning you get from being pimped on rounds, without the stress or the judgment. You pick a concept and explain it out loud in your own words; an AI compares what you said against the chapter's hidden model answer, scores how completely you covered it, and gives you specific, encouraging pointers on what to firm up. It grades the medicine, never your delivery, filler words, or accent, and hands back a cleaned-up transcript of what you actually said with the clinical terms spelled right. Private, repeatable, and the spoken-fluency rep a written Q-bank can't give you.
Are there slideshows or visual study decks?
Yes. Every episode comes with a Study-mode slide deck, 176 in all, laid out as bulleted slides with all of that chapter's diagrams and figures pulled in. A fast way to review a topic visually or refresh right before a test, included when you buy.
What are the Learning tools?
Four interactive trainers that sit alongside the chapters, free to everyone: a Muscle Lab with study cards, an anatomy quiz and a lesion-localization challenge; an interactive brachial and lumbosacral Plexus you can trace nerve by nerve and lesion to predict the EMG pattern; clinical EMG Cases that run from presentation to the real NCS and needle data; and an ultrasound-guided Injection guide with a study mode and a bedside procedure mode. Find them under Tools.
Does my progress sync across devices?
Yes. One login carries your flashcard schedule, answered questions, your oral-case and Explain It history, and your place in every episode across phone, tablet, and laptop. The podcast itself needs no account at all.
Beta access & pricing
How do I get in the beta?
Send us your email in the beta box above and we email back a single-use code. Enter it on your account page and the whole study system opens: every chapter, the Q-bank, the flashcards, the oral cases, and Explain It. It costs nothing and there is no card involved. What we want back is the thing we cannot get any other way, which is a resident telling us what is wrong, confusing, or missing. Use the Feedback pill on any page.
What does it cost?
Nothing during the beta. Ask for a code above and the whole system is yours free until the beta ends. After that it becomes a one-time purchase, priced to the date you pick: tell us when you sit for Part I and you pay for exactly that long. A PGY-4 buying a year pays about $250, while a PGY-2 buying through their boards pays around $420, which works out near $140 a year. No auto-renew and no card kept on file, and nothing you did during the beta is lost.
Can I try it before I pay?
Yes. The first chapter (MSK-01) is fully unlocked for free: the chapter, its flashcards, its Q-bank questions, and its oral cases. You can run the entire system end-to-end on one topic before deciding.
Can I use CME or education funds?
If your program has an education or CME allowance, this is usually the kind of thing it covers, though that is your program's call rather than ours. Either way we make the paperwork side easy: right after checkout we draft the reimbursement email to your coordinator, with the itemised Stripe receipt and the details a claim normally asks for (who paid, what it is, that it's educational, the date, the amount, and the term). You send it from your own address, or copy it and paste it wherever your program wants it.
What happens when my access ends?
Your access stays active through the term you paid for. Nothing auto-charges, so there's nothing to cancel. After it ends, the paid sections lock back behind the paywall, but every question you've answered, every block you've built, every card you've scheduled, and every episode you've worked through stays saved. Buy again anytime, months or years later, and pick up exactly where you left off.
Will this cover everything on the exam?
We design every chapter to cover the major board-tested content for its topic in depth, audited against the standard reference texts, society guidelines, and the primary literature. Boards evolve and any single question can probe a corner of the field, so no resource can guarantee every item. Our aim is a thorough foundation across every domain on the ABPMR Part I content outline.
Is this aligned to the official ABPMR blueprint?
Yes. The 176 episodes (173 chapters) are sequenced to the full ABPMR Part I content outline (MSK, Neuro, EDX, Medical Rehab, and Foundational Rehab Concepts), weighted to match the current exam outline.