Learn ICU vs PHM Events
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Learn ICU
Access critical care educational materials on your mobile device. Download content to learn on the go and enhance your skills in providing optimal care for critically ill patients.
- Downloadable learning content
- On-the-go learning
- Critical care education
- Tools for practitioners
- Right Care, Right Now™
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The Society of Critical Care Medicine's educational products equip practitioners with the tools needed to provide the Right Care, Right Now™ to all critically ill and injured patients. LearnICU app allows critical care practitioners to download relevant learning contents directly to their devices, and take the learning on the go!
PHM Events
Navigate educational activities and access conference offerings for pediatric hospitalists. Customize your schedule, find exhibit booths, and connect with other attendees via social media.
- Conference schedule customization
- Exhibit booth locator
- Attendee networking
- Social media integration
- Access to educational activities
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The PHM Conference app helps you navigate through PHM’s educational activities and provides comprehensive, direct access to conference offerings that are available to you. The Pediatric Hospital Medicine conference is the premier educational conference for pediatric hospitalists and other professionals involved in the care of hospitalized children. The largest meeting of the year for hospitalists, the conference is co-sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the AAP Section on Hospital Medicine (SOHM), the Academic Pediatric Association (APA) and the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM). Customize your conference schedule, locate the exhibit booths you want to visit and more. Get interactive with social media or locate and message other conference attendees.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PHM Events at monthly against Learn ICU's every 4 months. PHM Events also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.4). Learn ICU's advantage is ratings volume (192 vs 30). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Learn ICU against 4.6 for PHM Events. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn ICU has 192 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Learn ICU ships an update every 4 months, PHM Events monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Learn ICU | PHM Events |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (192 ratings) | 4.6 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 192 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Society of Critical Care Medicine | Society of Hospital Medicine |
Customer experience
Learn ICU
PHM Events
In-app purchases
Learn ICU
No in-app purchases
PHM Events
No in-app purchases
