# EM:RAP - Medical Education — Emergency Medicine & Beyond

> Online medical education platform with audio, video, board review, and literature analysis. (iPhone/iPad app by EM:RAP, Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/emrap-medical-education/id804248260 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [EM:RAP, Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/804248263)
- Category: Medical, Education
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 4,245 App Store ratings · 122 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 16.6 · 43 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2014-02-04
- Data updated: 2026-08-26
- Monetization: subscription
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/emrap-medical-education/id804248260/reviews.md

## What is EM?

Join 65,000 of your colleagues and subscribe to the #1 online medical education platform in the world. Gone are the days when you had to buy multiple products from different vendors. With EM:RAP you gain access to everything you will ever need throughout your career, all for one low price.
Because what you do matters!

AUDIO PODCASTS
Our emergency medicine, urgent care, and primary care audio programs have something for everyone. Just starting out? Our Comprehensive Core Curriculum (C3) has you covered for all of the most common presentations to the Emergency Department and Urgent Care. More of a seasoned vet? There is a reason our flagship EM:RAP podcast is the #1 EM audio program: it is full of cutting-edge updates from the specialty’s leading voices. Looking to expand your Urgent Care knowledge? UC Max has you covered!

HD VIDEOS
Can’t remember exactly how to execute that tricky procedure? Have no fear, our HD video section is filled with expertly-shot procedure videos and expert commentary. We also regularly host live shows to cover topics of interest. Additionally, we are building a robust library of video courses and lectures so you visual learners can deep dive into specific topics of interest.

BOARD REVIEW
Our Crunch Time audio product is a comprehensive board review course for MDs, RNs, PAs, NPs, and students of all types. We even have separate versions for both Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine!

LIFELONG LEARNING AND SELF-ASSESSMENT (LLSA)
Our reviews of LLSA papers cut straight to the chase. Listen to the audio and take the attached quiz, and you’ll be ready to ace the ABEM LLSA exam!

LITERATURE REVIEWS
Our Emergency Medical Abstracts team analyzes over 600 papers each month, so you don’t have to! And we dissect and summarize the best of these abstracts so you have the very best-available information for your practice.

PRIMARY CARE
Right on Prime is our comprehensive monthly audio series for the generalist. Primary care, urgent care, low-risk obstetrics, pediatrics, rural, remote and international medicine, paper reviews, and much more!

URGENT CARE
UC Maximus has revolutionized Urgent Care education. Your membership unlocks exclusive access to a comprehensive suite of UC educational products.

ABOUT EM:RAP
For twenty years, Emergency Medicine: Reviews and Perspectives (EM:RAP) has provided the EM community with the highest-quality medical education resources. Now the leaders in the field, the name EM:RAP has become synonymous with EM education. EM:RAP’s UC Maximus platform will do the same for Urgent Care. Our goal is to provide you with a one-stop for all your educational needs. With your EM:RAP subscription you gain access to everything you will ever need throughout your career, all for one low price.

## Key features

- Audio podcasts for emergency, urgent, and primary care
- HD procedure videos with expert commentary
- Board review courses for various medical professionals
- LLSA exam preparation
- Summarized medical literature reviews
- Comprehensive primary care audio series
- Urgent care educational products

## What do users think of EM?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Best study pod on the market
- 👍 The best
- 👍 Keeping up on the literature
- 👍 Great content and presentation
- 👍 Excellent review of new EM studies & practice
- 👍 Incredible amount of content
- 👍 The best in the business
- 👍 Significantly improved open time
- 👍 Excellent app for Emergency Medicine clinicians
- 👍 You have made this app PERFECT!!
- 👍 Very useful app for emergency physicians
- 👍 Amazing!
- 👍 Simply the best!
- 👍 Excellent source of learning for EM docs and CME
- 👍 This app is awesome!! 👨🏻‍⚕️💉
- 👍 Just.. so darn good.

**Cons**

- 🐛 Cannot add podcasts to playlist!
- 🐛 Super glitchy app
- 🐛 App is buggy
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Fundamental Missing Features
- 🐛 Horrible design
- 🐛 Great Content, logistical problems.
- 🐛 Needs CarPlay compatiblity
- 🐛 Glitchy App
- 🐛 App provides a frustrating listening experience
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Content is great, app underdelivers
- 🐛 Bug
- 🐛 App is buggy
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Content is great, app is trash
- 🐛 Glitchy app
- 🐛 The app is buggy
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App is trash
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 App is buggy
- 🐛 App is buggy
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App crashes frequently

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Download function doesn't work
- Downloads Still Don't Work
- Downloads do not work
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices

**Most requested features**

- Need ipad version
- Needs CarPlay compatibility
- CME needs to be in the app
- Ability to continue playing what was most recently played by default upon opening the app
- Skip forward/backward 15 seconds button on media display
- CarPlay!!!
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard

## Recent user reviews (10 of 122)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/emrap-medical-education/id804248260/reviews.md

### 2/5 — This app is so painful

*2026-07-20*

I love EM:RAP as a podcast but this app is terrible. It loads so slowly, if at all. Even when it loads it can’t always handle itself; visible buttons won’t click because it runs so slowly. Even trying to post this review the app crashed. The is way too much fluff on the app; just have it load the content I subscribe too. It defaults to load the dashboard tab which is useless so I have to wait for it to let me click to audio. Even the audio tab has “continue listening” row that doesn’t work because it shows segments from a decade ago that I’ve never listened to. If I click “mark as listened” then that segment disappears and replaced with another never ending list of segments I’ve never listened to. Lastly, the new weekly format is dangerous. EMRAP has acknowledged that most listeners listen while driving. It used to be two easy access monthly chapters (EMRAP and EMA) but now they separate it to weekly so we have to do even more clicks that don’t load? Plus, each EMRAP chapter is inserted with several EMA summaries I’d have recurrently skip; just give me the autonomy to choose to listen to a summary or not.

### 3/5 — Video organization awful

*2026-07-14, version 23.4.0*

EMRAP as an educational organization is amazing but this app needs some seeious restructuring. It used to be much easier to stay on top of the new videos using the app. Now I don’t know which ones I have seen and which ones I have not. It’s all jumbled up. Help!

### 5/5 — Great app

*2026-05-07, version 23.4.0*

Best app ever I’m so grateful to have this resource to lean on and learn from, thank you!

### 1/5 — Slow buggy iOS app

*2026-01-29, version 23.1.0*

Content good, app terrible

### 5/5 — Thank you for what you do

*2026-01-03*

I am a mid-level provider (practitioner) I work in a rural days ER where we don’t have a lot of specialties around, we don’t get the opportunity to practice many of the procedures and diagnosis that you discussed here. So I thank you for helping me stay on top of my game to do the best that I can do.

### 2/5 — Won’t Download to iPhone

*2025-12-31, version 23.1.0*

Have been an EMRAP listener for 20+ years.  Love the content, hate the App.  Haven’t been able to download it to my phone for years now.   Not a huge issue but there are areas on my way to work that don’t have strong cell signal (or some flights) so can’t always stream.

### 5/5 — Best study pod on the market

*2025-11-22, version 22.5.0*

Every manicure, commute, long walk. I love emrap

### 5/5 — The best

*2025-08-15, version 22.4.0*

Required listening to maintain competency. Always some need to know stuff and “I didn’t know that” stuff

### 5/5 — EMRAP

*2025-08-04, version 22.4.0*

This is my favourite and highest value CME

### 4/5 — Ron

*2025-08-02, version 22.3.0*

Love the Em: Rap team but very disappointed no longer covering primary care. Was a PCMA listener since the 1990’s. I attribute Rick and Jerry’s insights allowing me to this day to give good care to my patients. ROP with Ken and Steve was a pretty good substitute but now that is gone.

## Frequently asked questions about EM

### What kind of medical content does EM:RAP offer?

EM:RAP provides a wide range of medical education content, including audio podcasts covering emergency medicine, urgent care, and primary care. It also features HD videos of medical procedures, comprehensive board review courses, and summarized literature reviews to keep professionals updated.

### Who is the target audience for EM:RAP?

The platform is designed for medical professionals such as MDs, RNs, PAs, NPs, and students across various specialties. It specifically caters to those in emergency medicine, urgent care, and primary care who require continuous learning and skill development throughout their careers.

### How does EM:RAP help with board certification?

EM:RAP offers dedicated board review courses, such as the Crunch Time audio product, which is tailored for Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine board exams. They also provide resources for Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (LLSA) exams, including audio reviews and quizzes to help users prepare effectively.

### What is the pricing model for EM:RAP?

EM:RAP operates on a subscription model, offering access to all its educational resources for a single, low price. This approach aims to provide a comprehensive and convenient solution for medical professionals' lifelong learning needs without requiring multiple purchases.

### What makes EM:RAP different from other medical education platforms?

EM:RAP positions itself as a #1 online medical education platform, consolidating various learning formats like audio, video, and literature reviews into one subscription. It focuses on providing high-quality, cutting-edge content from leading voices in emergency medicine and aims to be a complete resource for a professional's entire career.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 24.0.0 — 2026-08-06

The greatest philosopher of the twentieth century once declared a library card was like a citizenship to the Land of Knowledge. Linus, our intrepid thinker, is captured forever in a sketch holding one such card aloft, proudly announcing to his sister Lucy and his best friend Charlie Brown that this is the key to everything he would go on to learn. Immortalized by librarians who clipped and taped the comic strip to their circulation desks all across the world, Linus would go on to become a symbol for everything a library holds in store for their patrons.

We decided it was high time to bring that same energy to the EM:RAP iOS app’s library tab. It has been completely redesigned from the ground up, giving you full control over your playlists. Sort, group, and filter your playlists with ease. Downloads are now quicker to find, too, and it’s a cinch to locate the episodes your downloaded chapters have come from. We’ve even redesigned our menus, and fixed a number of bugs.

Controlling what’s yours has never been easier. So what are you waiting for? Open the EM:RAP app and get learning in your own land of medical knowledge. You’re going to like what you find.

### 23.4.0 — 2026-04-27

Do you remember what it was like to be a kid? How at recess there was always this one student who would make these wild proclamations just so others might think they were cool? They’d say things like, “my dad can beat up your dad,” or, “my uncle once ate five whole watermelons,” or even, “I have a pet ghost,” and everyone would agree that yes, having a pet ghost does indeed make you cool. The way the kid would smile and cross their arms, knowing full well their friends were jealous of just how cool having a pet ghost would be. That is, until someone in the group would ruin the feeling by saying two tiny, yet powerful, words: “Prove it.”

We here at EM:RAP know how quickly these two seemingly insignificant words can take the wind from your sails, the gas from your engine, or the spark from your sparkler. That’s why we’ve set about making it easier to prove which episodes you’ve listened to in our app. Before, playing an episode again eliminated the record of it having been played in the first place. With this update, that record is retained, no matter how many times you listen.

We’ve also made several visual improvements to the video tab, and have polished the app’s layout. We’ve even added the ability to remove items from your Continue Listening carousel, just in case you’ve had your fill of one episode or another. As a bonus, we’ve made playlists more convenient with an expanded menu, and we’ve fixed a niggling bug which caused the app to over-report how much time was left in a chapter.

So go ahead, brag to your colleagues about how you once listened to one hundred hours of EM:RAP in just one day. When they ask you to prove it, you’ll have our app to back you up.

### 23.3.0 — 2026-03-31

Imagine this: it’s 1985, and you’re in your dad’s suped up Thunderbird. You’ve just pulled up to a red light, and there’s this Camaro in the lane next to you. You rev your engine. The Camaro revs back: the race is on. You grip the wheel with one hand and crank the radio with the other, and the AM rock station you’re listening to floods your ear drums. The light turns green, and you stomp the accelerator. 

Now fast forward to 2026. You’re in your sensible Toyota Corolla, creeping up to a red light with the latest EM:RAP episode playing at a gentle volume. There’s a Tesla in the other lane, but it doesn’t have anything to rev. Instead, the driver waves. Normally you’d wave back, but your other hand is busy tapping through a brand new CarPlay interface just launched by EM:RAP. You’re eagerly paging through EM:RAP episodes, EMA summaries, and C3 content, before switching over to your own playlists and downloads.

As the light turns green, the Tesla silently zips away. You carry on too—but instead of deafening yourself with Casey Kasem’s countdown, you’re listening to all the medical education you know and love, now available with a simple tap on your car’s touchscreen.

### 23.2.0 — 2026-02-02

Spring has become synonymous with cleaning. As the weather warms, people all across the world air out their houses, beat their rugs on the back porch, and clean all those hard-to-reach spots we ignore most of the year. But do we need to wait until spring to relieve the underside of our beds from their dust bunnies, or behind our toilets from the latest in gross-out bacteria? We here at EM:RAP don’t think so. That’s why we’ve taken our iOS app outside and shaken the bugs from it, and worked to enhance its performance. By the time spring arrives, the EM:RAP iOS app will be one place we won’t need to clean—that way we can focus our attention on important things, like figuring out what to do with our drawer stogged full with charger cables.

### 23.1.0 — 2025-12-18

Who doesn’t love holiday bug fixes? This final update of the year completes our to-do list for the year, preparing us for a fresh start. We’ve improved your listening progress, ensured downloads stay downloaded, and tidied up your dashboard. Enjoy these enhancements over the holidays and have a happy new year!

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