About Season One

Why it exists

PA students sit seven end-of-rotation exams and then the PANCE. The tools for preparing cost hundreds of dollars a year, need a connection to work, and are built by people who are not in the room. Students end up assembling a patchwork of subscriptions, shared documents and whatever a previous cohort left behind.

Season One started as the thing I wanted and could not find while studying: questions written the way a clinician actually reasons, an explanation attached to every answer, and an app that keeps working in a hospital basement with no signal.

Who is behind it

One person. I'm a physician assistant student, and I write the questions, build the software, and answer the email. There is no team, no investors, and no content licensed in from anywhere — every question in the bank was written by hand, one at a time.

That is a real constraint and it shows up in the product honestly: coverage grows in batches, some rotations are further along than others, and the app is in beta because it is not finished. When the numbers on this site change, it's because the content changed.

How it's built

Written by hand. The first version of the question bank was generated from templates. It was deleted — all of it — because a student who has read the reference page recognises the sentence rather than the disease. Everything since has been authored one question at a time and checked against source material.

Offline by default. Every question, condition and image ships inside the app. No connection required, ever.

Nothing is watched. No analytics, no third-party trackers, no advertising. Study data stays on the device and never reaches a server. It couldn't be sold if anyone wanted to.

What's next

Growing the question bank toward full blueprint coverage, and a research study with a PA program to find out whether a tool like this actually gets used across a full rotation cycle — and whether students find it worth their time. That work is in progress rather than finished, and this page will say so until it isn't.

Contact

Questions, corrections and anything else: [email protected].