Your Performance Isn't Always a reflection of how hard you work or how smart you are.
You may Just Need a Better System.
STATMed teaches medical students and physicians how to study smarter, manage time better, and take board-style exams with confidence.
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Smart Students & Doctors Still Struggle
You know you’re capable and motivated, so where is the breakdown?
- The speed-volume-density seems impossible to master in the classroom
- You study for hours but retain too little
- What works for your peers, like ANKI or doing thousands of practice questions, doesn’t work for you
- You don’t know where the holes are in your knowledge or how to find and fix them
- You narrow answers down to two… and pick the wrong one
- You know the material - but your scores don’t show it on boards
Med school and boards demand that you can receive, organize, encode, store, and randomly access and apply VAST amounts of information.
If you cannot innately do this or build this ability from tips and advice from others, that’s because no one teaches smart adults how to best study medicine and show what they know on medical board exams
These are the systems we teach
We Don’t Teach Content. We Teach the System Behind Performance
Most programs reteach material.
We rebuild how you approach learning so you can apply it in the classroom and on boards.
- STATMed focuses on:
- Study methodology
- Time management systems
- Retrieval-based learning
- Question dissection and analysis
- Fixing bad test-taking habits
If you’ve been doing everything you know to do and you’re still hitting the same wall, the methodology is the problem, not the effort
More effort won’t fix a flawed method.
A better system will.
Welcome to STATMed Learning
Choose the Right Path for Your Situation
- I’m a classroom learner who just can’t seem to bring on board the insane volume of material I need for test day. I need help with STUDYING, TIME AND TASK MANAGEMENT, and GETTING MORE out of lecture and studying after lecture.
- This applies to medical students in the didactic classroom years and those in related classrooms: veterinarians, Pharm Ds, PAs, PTs, biomedical master’s students, et cetera.
- I’m a medical professional with an upcoming board exam.
- I know my stuff but I can’t get the scores I deserve on test day.
- I need to learn what is getting in my way and RETRAIN MY TEST-TAKING HABITS using an airtight SYSTEM to overcome it.
- This applies to the USMLE, COMLEX, self exams, NAVLE, NAPLEX, NBEO, and all specialty and sub-specialty boards (EM, IM, Peds, Family, surgery, anesthesia, ophthalmology, etc.)
- I’ve got boards coming up and I know I need help with STUDYING effectively and TEST-TAKING methodology.
- Often great if you have failed the same board exam multiple times.
- Can be used proactively as well.
- All same board exams as above apply here.
STATMed Learning Supports:
- Medical Students (Classroom, Boards, & Shelves)
- Physicians & Residents
- Veterinary Students and Veterinarians (NAVLE)
- Other Medical and Health Professionals: Pharm Ds, PAs, PTs, Optometrists, Biomedical Master’s Students, etc...
- Students with ADHD or Executive Function Challenges
- At-Risk or Repeating Classroom Students
- At-Risk or Failing Board Exams
- Issues with Reading or Learning
Do you fit into one of these categories?
If you’re serious about fixing your approach – we’re serious about helping you.
Upcoming STATmed Programs
Pre-Clinical Program
Currently Enrolling
Study Skills Class
Future Class Dates TBD
Seats are limited and given on a first come, first serve basis.
Boards Programs
Currently Enrolling
Boards Reboot Camps
Winter 2026 Sessions:
Session 1: January 24 - February 16
Inquire about more upcoming sessions.
To Enroll in One of Our Programs or Find Out More:
What Our Students Say
Real Results from Real Students
Built on Learning Science. Designed for the Demands of Medical Education.
Founded in 2012 by Ryan Orwig, MS, a reading and learning specialist.
- STATMed integrates:
- Learning Science
- Curricular design of medical school and boards
- Profiles for struggling learners
- Behavioral execution systems
- STATMed Areas Covered Include:
- Structure-centric learning
- Retrieval practice
- Metacognitive learning and management tools
- Workflow generation
- Spaced and Interleaved Learning
- Working Memory management in test-taking
This is not tutoring.
This is performance training.
Are You A Dean Or Medical Education Learning Specialist (M.E.L.S.)?
Every medical school has students who are struggling, at-risk, or repeating – and not enough resources to fix the underlying problem.
STATMed is where you send those students.
We provide structured, methodology-based intervention for students who need more than tutoring, tips, or content review. We rebuild how they study, manage time, and take tests – so they can return to your program ready to perform.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is STATMed Learning for?
- We help medical professionals (both students and doctors) with study, time management test-taking in the medical school classroom through all medical board exams. We are not a fit for everyone; we help those who have not found the effective methods that they need to work for THEM in medical school (or related programs) or on boards.
- Our client base comes from the medical professional field, including:
- Medical students looking to improve classroom or boards performance
- Physicians looking to improve boards performance
- Other medical professionals (classroom learners or doctors) looking to improve classroom or boards performance: Veterinarians, Optometrists, Physicians Assistants, Pharm Ds, Physical Therapists, Biomedical Masters students, etc.
- Our clients are often failing and repeating, stuck on boards, on leaves of absence, getting by but at great personal cost, worried about failure, or just looking for the best study and management systems and methods they can use to make the most of their studying and test-taking in their medical field, which may include the USMLE, COMLEX, NAVLE, NBEO, NAPLEX, or other board exams; we also address learning and performance needs in the first few didactic years in the classroom (classic lecture-based models, flipped classrooms, PBL, TBL, hybrid models, etc.)
- Our clients may or may not have issues with ADHD, reading, learning, anxiety, etc. either diagnostically or sub-diagnostically
- Many of our clients come to us frustrated since no one ever taught them the best way for them to learn medicine or show what they know on board-style exams
- We build STATMed because no one teaches these students HOW to learn, maximize time, or show what they know on boards. These are not issues for MOST people in these highly demanding medical fields. But if these are areas of need FOR YOU, then STATMed may indeed be a great fit
What makes STATMed different from tutoring or content review?
- STATMed teaches you the HOW:
- HOW to study in the classroom or for board exams;
- HOW to maximize your time and build workflow, making studying like high intensity training; and
- HOW to show what you know on medical board exams, addressing the cognitively demanding structure of medical board exams so you can consistently use the parts of what you know on every question
- The systems we teach are comprehensively end-to-end, allowing you to take control of your learning autonomously and with agency, so you can be in control of your prep and performance in the classroom, rotations, and/or on boards. Our systems will let you plug into any medical or boards-based content, of any design, and be in control
- TUTORS tell you the WHAT, not the HOW. They serve an important role for students needing to have concepts explained to them or perhaps as a means of active engagement. Our students often say they do not need someone to teach it to them or that the concepts themselves are not that hard, it is just a matter of managing how much there is, so fast, and making it stick and be accessible of the long haul; we address this with the methods we teach. Think of this analogy: If a tutor provides you with a fish meal, we teach you how to fish so you can feed yourself meals in perpetuity.
- CONTENT REVIEW PROGRAMS: These programs tell you WHAT you need to learn, and thus form an integral part of boards learning. Many do not teach you HOW to learn this content, and those that do usually prescribe a few tips and tricks, which is usually more frustrating than helpful. You can plug our methods into ANY review content. But keep in mind, we are NOT content experts so you would need to couple what you learn from us with a boards review package of your choice if you are prepping for boards.
Who will I be working with?
STATMed Learning is JUST two people: Ryan Orwig, MS, and David LaSalle, MA. We have been working exclusively with our medical students & physicians since 2005 and 2013, respectively. You will never be working with the third person under the fourth person in our organization. This is just one aspect that makes STATMed so different.
We are the ones who have built our methods and tools, so you will always be working with the best either way. Every platform we teach is small, personal, and hands-on, with a lot of back and forth between you and your STATMed instructor.
Which program is right for me?
Classroom learners in any medical professional program would be fits for the STATMED STUDY SKILLS CLASS. This is true for medical students in the first two years, prior to Step 1/Level 1. This also applies to classroom-based students in the following fields: Veterinarians, Physical Therapists, Optometrists, Physician Assistants, Pharm Ds, and Biomedical Masters Students.
If you are at a boards prep level, then we would likely recommend two of the following platforms:
- STATMed Boards Workshop: This is our on-on-one workshop for “bad test-takers” at the medical boards level, where we tear down your test-taking approach and install our rigid methodology in its place.
- STATMed Boards Reboot Camp: This combines our boards study/restudy skills with the full STATMed Boards Workshop, ideal from someone who wants to completely reengineer how the study (or restudy) for their medical board exam: USMLE, COMLEX, NAVLE, NBEO, Specialty Boards (EM, IM, PEDS, etc.). This is great for those really stuck on a board exam, but can also be useful for clients at the start of any boards prep cycle if they know they need to change their approach.
- In some situations, we might recommend the ONE-ON-ONE STATMED STUDY SKILLS COURSE, but this is not always an option based on our caseloads
As always, we are happy to sort out the best path for you via a quick, informal phone chat.
WHAT WOULD MAKE SOMEONE A BAD FIT FOR STATMED LEARNING?
- Learners outside the fields of medical professionals: lawyers/law students, financial exams, high school or undergraduate students are not viable fits for our services.
- Someone looking for a tutor would not be a good fit: We teach customized skills that you can use to sustain yourself in the classroom, boards study, and/or boards test-taking.
- If you want us to provide content for review, that would not be a good fit: We teach the skills that you can plug into any content, from classroom content in medical school to boards review content to boards review questions for your board exam.
- We are not a magic pill; this is about methodologies designed to address specific areas of need, and this requires up-front work to onboard the skills, then ongoing work to gain mastery and fluency with the skills while also flipping key behavioral levers (we will address all of this, but it is crucial that any incoming clients know—which they usually do—that this requires rolling up your sleeves, going against the grain of your default settings, and doing the work.)
- Issues larger than study or test-taking methodology: Issues with generalized anxiety, other mental health issues, physical health issues, et cetera should be addressed before participating in any STATMed platform.
- Motivation: We are not motivational speakers and we are not therapists. Granted, many students come to us frustrated and often exhausted, and that is perfectly fine; learning the skills we teach in our platforms are a great inherent motivator. But we expect a certain consistent work rate and work ethic from all participants, which is a fair baseline.
- Related, all STATMed clients are expected to do all the work, all the time, every time before, during, and after their particular program. This is about methodology, and clients must be interested in and willing to do the work
- Someone looking to take the systems we teach and cherry pick and modify from the outset is likely not a good fit. We are extremely prescriptive and methods should not be modified until AFTER each client has mastered the baseline skill sets.
- Note that we always do an informal phone interview and will direct you to the right platform or help us determine whether STATMed is a good fit for you or not
Do I have to be failing to enroll?
Not at all. While many STATMed students come to us after hitting a wall or facing repeated failure, we also work with students who are passing but working harder than they should have to. If your current system is costing you time, energy, or confidence — there is a better way.
For example, we met a young woman in the early years of STATMed. She made it through 1st her of her allopathic med school and was ready to walk away because it was so hard, so painful, and costing so much emotionally and physically to pass. She did the STATMed Study Skills Class in the summer between MS-1 and MS-2, trained with the skills for the few weeks between the end of the CLASS and entering second year, and improved her average test scores by 12%, gained control of her time and was on when she was on and off when she was off, improving her quality of life from a 3 to a 7, and is now a double-boarded physician. She never failed, but she would cite The STATMed Class as one of the best investments of her life.
Is there a guarantee or refund policy?
We are committed to the success of every student we work with. Before enrolling, every applicant goes through an interview process to make sure the program is the right fit.
Broadly speaking, we cannot guarantee outcomes. It would be great if we could, but our clients come from all walks of life, from all manner of educational backgrounds, covering a wide spectrum of profiles and challenges. These are some of the most challenging arenas in education in the world, and these board exams are certainly among the hardest.
We can guarantee a commitment to the highest quality of experiences with our platforms, where we will teach and onboard the prescribed set of skills intended to help each student unlock their potential and give themselves the best chance they can have to succeed in their field.
If you have questions about our policies, please contact us directly and our team will walk you through the details.
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Your performance isn’t always a reflection of how hard you work.
You may just need a better system.