CHEST Education vs SHM Learning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CHEST Education
Access cutting-edge chest medicine knowledge from a world-renowned faculty. This app offers advanced clinical training and keeps your expertise at the forefront of the field.
- World-renowned faculty
- State-of-the-art training facility
- Advanced clinical curriculum
- Cutting-edge knowledge updates
- Chest medicine specialization
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With a world-renowned faculty, state-of-the-art training facility, and an advanced clinical training curriculum, you can trust that CHEST will keep your knowledge set on the cutting-edge of chest medicine.
SHM Learning
Access hospitalist-specific continuing medical education and Maintenance of Certification opportunities on the go. Stay current with the expanding knowledge and skills required in hospital medicine through a growing educational library.
- Hospitalist-specific CME
- Maintenance of Certification (MOC) opportunities
- On-the-go learning
- Expanding educational library
- Stay current with medical knowledge
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As the only professional society dedicated to hospital medicine, SHM provides our membership with hospitalist-specific continuing medical education (CME) and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) opportunities. SHM is constantly working to expand our educational library to help you stay current in the knowledge and skills you need as the scope of hospital medicine continues to grow. Our SHM Learning app allows our members to take their learning on the go, such as our Spark v3.
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Verdict
CHEST Education and SHM Learning both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 50% of CHEST Education's written reviews are positive against 0% of SHM Learning's. SHM Learning's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 CHEST Education against 4.7 for SHM Learning. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 133 and 71 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of CHEST Education's written reviews are positive against 0% of SHM Learning's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CHEST Education | SHM Learning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (133 ratings) | 4.7 (71 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 133 — better | 71 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | American College of Chest Physicians | Society of Hospital Medicine |
Customer experience
CHEST Education
SHM Learning
In-app purchases
CHEST Education
No in-app purchases
SHM Learning
No in-app purchases
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