Practicing Excellence vs MER PCC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Practicing Excellence
This app provides short, video-based coaching for healthcare professionals. It offers practical tips and challenges to improve everyday actions in care and teamwork. Users can track progress and engage in discussions.
- Short video coaching
- Personalized practical content
- Daily action challenges
- Progress tracking
- Team discussions
- Access learning resources
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The Practicing Excellence app delivers short, video-based coaching to physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, and care team members engage with personalized, practical content designed to turn insight into everyday action. Each tip is 5 minutes or less and concludes with a “try this challenge” to help apply behavioral change topics in real moments of care and teamwork. Users can track their progress, participate in team discussions, and access learning resources directly within the app.
MER PCC
Access medical education resources and register for conferences on the go. Browse by date or topic, view agendas, and manage your professional profile.
- Search and register for conferences
- Browse by date or topic
- View conference agendas
- Manage user profile
- Access medical education resources
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Medical Education Resources (MER) is Primary Care’s leading provider of commercial-free CME. Join the hundreds of thousands of your medical professional peers who have enjoyed CME-getaways at locations around the globe. Revel in MER’s signature half-day format at over 120 conferences annually, covering 32 topics, during all times of the year. Within the new MER app search and register for a conference, browse by date or topic, view agendas, and manage your profile all from your mobile device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Practicing Excellence at 3.9 against MER PCC's 3.4. Practicing Excellence also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). MER PCC's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 20%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Practicing Excellence holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 38 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of Practicing Excellence's written reviews are positive against 33% of MER PCC's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Practicing Excellence ships an update monthly, MER PCC every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Practicing Excellence | MER PCC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (30 ratings) — better | 3.4 (38 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 | 38 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PracticingExcellence.com, Inc. | Mer Primary Care Conferences |
Customer experience
Practicing Excellence
MER PCC
In-app purchases
Practicing Excellence
No in-app purchases
MER PCC
No in-app purchases
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