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Ryan Haynes and Shiv Gaglani started building Osmosis as medical students at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Outside of the classroom, they knew there had to be a better way to learn medicine more effectively. What began as a tool to help Shiv, Ryan, and their classmates has transformed into the Osmosis of today, a comprehensive platform that helps people around the world understand health more thoroughly.

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Osmosis Product Updates

At Osmosis from Elsevier, we’re passionate about providing you with the most effective and engaging learning experience possible. Our team continually strives to improve our products and stay on top of the latest developments in health education. We invite you to revisit this blog regularly for updates throughout 2024. Read the full blog to hear the latest news!

How Osmosis Videos Are Made

Dr. Vincent Waldman, Head of Content Operations at Osmosis, shares how we make our videos at Osmosis.

Studying Smarter with Osmosis, the Best Videos for Medical School Review

Want to learn how to study smarter? Osmosis can be a great tool to help with studying more efficiently. Read Morgan’s testimonial below to see how you can study smarter for medical school with Osmosis, which features the best videos for medical school review.

8 Science-Backed Learning Strategies Osmosis Uses to Help You Study Smarter

At Osmosis, it’s our mission to empower the world’s clinicians and caregivers with the best learning experience possible. We’ve worked hard to ensure that as learning methods evolve, so does the Osmosis platform. Here's a brief exploration of the learning science methods on Osmosis that help you study smarter.

How to use USMLE® Question Banks Efficiently on Osmosis

Learn how to efficiently utilize USMLE question banks, like those found on Osmosis.org, to maximize your study time and test scores.

The Guilt of Becoming a Better Student (How I Found My Study Style With Osmosis)

Here at Osmosis, we believe in helping students learn in a way that makes them better students and enjoy learning. Read how one medical student overcame his dissatisfaction towards medical school, and reignited his passion for learning with the help of Osmosis.

Med School Life Hacks: Master Your Pharm Exams With a Memory Palace

Feeling uneasy about memorizing an endless litany of pharmacological drugs? Osmosis Medical Education Fellow Jhinson Mendoza has a study hack that will change the way you learn pharmacology. And guess what? It’s backed by science! In today’s blog, Jhinson reviews how to create and use the Memory Palace method to learn every long name in pharm simply and fast.

Team Spotlight: Tanner Marshall, Osmosis Creative Director

It's Osmosis's 5-Year Anniversary! As part of the celebrations, we're interviewing one of our most famous voices: Tanner Marshall, Creative Director at Osmosis. Tanner has been with Osmosis almost since the beginning, and has filled a ton of different roles (many at the same time!), including script writer, video illustrator, voiceover artist, and product designer, to name a few. If you've ever watched an Osmosis video, you know Tanner's voice well: get to know him even better in today's blog!

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