USMLE Vault · October 2026
✨ New in the Vault
11 new features, newest first. Each one links to the guide that shows you how to use it.
By Dr. Marish Asudani · Published · Updated
What's new in USMLE Vault?
USMLE Vault added 11 features in October 2026. The biggest: An AI tutor on every screen; Timed Anki; Every Anki card opens its First Aid page; NBME 34 is in the NBME Booster.
Every screen, bottom right
An AI tutor on every screen
Tap the owl and ask anything you're stuck on. Every answer comes in 3 parts: in simple words, how it works, then exactly how the USMLE tests it. It knows which page you're on and how the app works. 30 questions a day.
Read the guide →Anki, on every card
Timed Anki
Switch any deck from Tutored to Timed: 60 seconds for the question, 60 for the answer. Run out of time and the card counts as forgotten and comes back in the same session.
Read the guide →Anki, after you reveal the answer
Every Anki card opens its First Aid page
6,474 cards link to the exact First Aid page that teaches the answer. Open it beside the card, then jump straight back to the same card.
Read the guide →Anki, NBME Booster decks
NBME 34 is in the NBME Booster
200 new cards from NBME 34, filed into the system decks. The Booster now covers forms 20 to 34: 4,374 cards.
Read the guide →First Aid Guide, ELI5 drawer
ELI5s in reading order, with topic tabs
2,849 ELI5s across all 16 systems now follow the page, with a tab for each topic on the page so you can open all of them at once.
Read the guide →First Aid Guide, Test Yourself
398 new Test Yourself MCQs, and Rule out
More questions on every system, plus a Rule out button that strikes an option through, the way you eliminate on UWorld.
Read the guide →Schedule, Road to exam day
Road to exam day
Every block from today to Step 1 on one screen, with your NBMEs and mocks as checkpoints, and what happens after your first NBME already laid out.
Read the guide →Schedule, Reset
Your exam date, checked against your plan
Your plan shows the exam date your hours actually get you. Already booked? Enter it in Reset and the plan is checked to fit inside it.
Read the guide →Schedule, Study order
Choose your own study order
Move systems up or down. The app tells you why the default order exists before you change it.
Read the guide →First Aid Guide, top of each system
Micro, pharm and a video for every system
Each system in the First Aid Guide opens with 4 buttons: how to use the guide, Dr. Marish's video for that system, that system's micro and that system's pharm.
Read the guide →University, Free Guides
Every free guide inside the app
A Free Guides tab in University with every guide, sorted into plans, methods, NBME, resources and mindset. No account needed.
Every guide here runs on one app
First Aid guide, Anki, NBME booster and assessments, in USMLE Vault.
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