Equip students to practice evidence-based medicine in the AI era

Today's learners are entering a healthcare environment shaped by both rapidly expanding medical knowledge and the growing use of AI. Preparing them for practice requires more than teaching what to know. It means helping them develop the skills to evaluate evidence, apply clinical reasoning, and make decisions they can understand, explain, and stand behind.

Grounded in trusted evidence, expert clinical review, and responsible AI, UpToDate helps students learn how evidence informs real-world care decisions. By combining clinical decision support with AI-powered capabilities, learners gain experience using the same trusted clinical intelligence relied on by millions of clinicians worldwide, preparing them for practice today and throughout their careers.

The clinical intelligence model reflects the integration of proprietary AI technology into the existing editorial process.
I very much enjoy showing students that they have access to UpToDate as they very rapidly realize how useful this resource is to their professional development and their studying for exams.
Dr. Steve Jackson
Chief Medical Information Officer and Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
UpToDate has been essential to my education and clinical practice for years. Dr. Burton Rose [UpToDate founder] was a visionary and a trailblazer in medical app development for point of care access to medical information.
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Director of Gastroenterology Endoscopy at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, and Conjoint Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle, Australia

Prepare medical students for practice with trusted clinical intelligence from UpToDate

Tomorrow's clinicians must learn to navigate an environment shaped by both rapidly expanding medical knowledge and the growing use of AI. With access to UpToDate, students can:

  • Access AI-powered guidance grounded in trusted evidence, transparent source citations, and expert clinical review.
  • Build the skills to evaluate evidence, apply clinical reasoning, and make decisions they can understand, explain, and stand behind.
  • Connect medical knowledge to real-world patient care.

Additionally, faculty can easily integrate trusted content and visuals into teaching, while students gain experience using the same clinical intelligence relied on by millions of healthcare professionals worldwide.

~97.5% of specialists and teachers at Inha University Hospital use UpToDate every day and search for clinical information about 500,000 times each year.1
99% of trainee subscribers, including medical students, say they would recommend UpToDate to a colleague.2
In a study of third-year medical students, most used UpToDate to prepare for attending rounds and to admit patients (64% and 67%, respectively).3
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Trusted clinical intelligence developed, peer reviewed, and maintained by more than 7,600 clinician experts, including

13,000+ topics

10,000+ graded recommendations

8,000+ unique drug entries

580,000+ references/citations (Medline)

39,000+ graphics (tables, images, algorithms)

230+ medical calculators

450+ journals hand searched/reviewed

25 specialties covered in depth

Available for use on mobile, tablet, and desktop

Learn About Clinical Intelligence

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3 million clinicians across
more than 190 countries

Used by more than
55,100 total institutional sites
worldwide

Users are able to search, locate,
and review the information they
need in approx. 1 minute

case study - Nagasaki University Hospital
Leading universities around the world rely on UpToDate as an educational clinical decision support resource, including
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Germany)
Imperial College London (UK)
Nagasaki University (Japan)
Centro Universitário FMABC (Brazil)
Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (Lebanon)
Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht (Netherlands)
Yale University New Haven (USA)
  1. Wolters Kluwer Case Studies; https://www.wolterskluwer.com/-/media/project/wolterskluwer/oneweb/www/health/ce/files/case-studies/wk-customer-profile-000798-inha-university-hospital.pdf
  2. UpToDate Individual Subscriber Survey, September 2024, N=11,118
  3. Amada Cooper, “Research utilization patterns of third-year medical students,” The Clinical Teacher, 2011 March; 8(1):43-7. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21324072/
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