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Record a pathology lecture, upload a Pathoma chapter, or capture a PBL session. Distill builds high-yield summaries, tagged flashcards, and differential concept maps the way med students actually study.
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Cardiology — Week 6 Block.mp3
1h 48m · Captured for medical students
Medical school runs at volume. Sixty minutes of renal physiology, forty minutes of pharmacokinetics, two hours of PBL, and then a cardiology review block — every single day. You can either transcribe it all yourself, fall behind, or run it through Distill and focus on the work that actually moves your Step scores.
Distill was built by engineers who sat next to med students during their preclinical years. We watched first-years triple-click through Pathoma videos to catch Dr. Sattar's asides, then retype them into Anki. We watched third-years try to write down attending wisdom during morning rounds without losing eye contact with a patient. Those workflows shape every choice in the product.
On the input side, Distill handles live lectures, Zoom recordings, uploaded Panopto files, podcast episodes, and PDFs of slides. On the output side you get chapter-by-chapter summaries, Anki-compatible decks with cloze deletions on high-yield facts, differential-diagnosis concept maps, and board-style multiple-choice questions that mimic USMLE vignettes. Every output links back to the exact timestamp in your source, so you can verify before you memorize.
We also respect HIPAA realities. Distill processes audio on encrypted infrastructure and never uses your recordings to train public models. If a patient name slips into a case presentation, our redaction pass catches it before export. You own your data and you can delete any session on demand.
Real workflows. No fluff.
Tap record at the start of block, shove your phone in your coat pocket, and walk into lecture. Distill handles two-plus hours on a single session with live transcription, speaker labeling when the professor hands off to a resident, and automatic chaptering when the topic shifts.
Drop in a Pathoma chapter or Sketchy Pharm episode. Distill pulls out high-yield facts, writes cloze deletions, and tags them by system, drug class, and USMLE Step relevance. Export straight to Anki with media intact.
Upload a PBL transcript and Distill surfaces the differential diagnosis tree, ranks each diagnosis by presenting signs, and flags what data is missing. Great for building clinical reasoning frameworks before you see real patients.
Record rounds (with permission) and Distill structures the attending's teaching points into SOAP-note style summaries. Differentials, pearls, and pimping questions all tagged separately. Never scramble in the workroom again.
Every Distill session generates a set of USMLE-style vignettes from your own lecture content. Do twenty questions before bed and Distill tracks which topics are still soft so you know what to review tomorrow.
Stars mark the top 3 features for medical students.
| Feature | Distill | Generic AI tools |
|---|---|---|
| ★Long-session recording (2+ hours) | Up to 15 hours unbroken | 15–30 min hard limits |
| ★Medical terminology accuracy | Custom medical vocab trained on pathology, pharmacology, anatomy | Generic English model |
| ★Anki export with cloze | Native Anki .apkg with cloze + media | Copy/paste text only |
| Differential diagnosis maps | Built-in | Not supported |
| USMLE-style question generation | Vignette format with distractors | Bland recall questions |
| HIPAA-aware redaction | Auto redact PHI on export | Raw text |
| Mobile recording (white-coat friendly) | iOS / Android with background record | Web-only |
| Pathoma / Sketchy / Boards and Beyond imports | Drag-and-drop upload | Manual retyping |
| Spaced-repetition scheduling | Built-in with Anki sync | Not integrated |
| Offline review | Sync to device | Cloud only |
“I stopped triple-clicking through Pathoma at 1.8x. I upload the video, Distill cloze-deletes every high-yield fact, and I drill it in Anki the same night. Step 1 prep went from miserable to manageable.”
Priya N.
MS2, state med school
“The differential maps from PBL sessions are the unfair advantage. My small-group leader thinks I just have great clinical intuition — it's actually Distill structuring our cases into decision trees.”
Marcus T.
MD candidate, PGY applicant
“I'm an RN bridging to FNP. Distill handles 3-hour Zoom lectures without crashing, tags NCLEX-style questions, and exports to Anki. Nothing else on the market does the long-session thing reliably.”
Dana R.
BSN, NCLEX + FNP student
ChatGPT and generic transcribers miss the details that matter. Distill was built for your workflow.
Furosemide, levothyroxine, mycophenolate mofetil — Distill's medical vocabulary layer is trained on pharmacology and pathology sources so it transcribes them correctly the first time. Generic Whisper models average one spelling mistake per drug name in our internal benchmark.
Block lectures run two-plus hours. Most consumer transcribers cap at 30 minutes or choke when they hit a quiet stretch during a demo. Distill records up to 15 hours on Pro, handles silence, and auto-chapters by topic shift.
We export an .apkg bundle with cloze deletions and image media embedded. Not a CSV you have to reformat at 11 PM before an exam.
Generic AI makes bland recall questions. Distill generates vignettes with clinical stems, plausible distractors, and answer explanations grounded in your own lecture content.
Sam started MS2 already tired. First year had been 60% Anki catch-up and 40% actual learning. Their study group had a group-drive of half-transcribed lectures maintained by whoever hadn't burnt out yet.
They found Distill through a Reddit thread in /r/medicalschool. Started by dropping in Sketchy Pharm videos for Block 5 (cardiology). Distill generated 340 Anki cards from a single episode with correct tagging by drug class, mechanism, and contraindication. Sam drilled the deck during call shifts, got their first 90th-percentile score on a block exam, and switched their entire workflow.
By the end of the year Sam was recording every lecture live, letting Distill auto-chapter it, and spending the thirty minutes between classes reviewing high-yield summaries instead of re-listening. They hit 245 on Step 1 and told us the single biggest delta was not having to spend four hours a night retyping drug names into flashcards.
Outcome: 245 Step 1 score, ~12 hours/week of note-retyping reclaimed, and one study-group friend Sam now owes a coffee.
Plus gives you unlimited lecture recording, 3-hour sessions, all AI models, and Anki export. Pro adds 15-hour sessions and board-question generation for dedicated test preppers.
You did not apply to med school to become a transcription secretary. Record every lecture, let Distill handle the note-taking, and spend your study hours on reps that actually move your Step score.