About Us

Welcome to LectureBoss

LectureBoss was created because we believe a medical exam should not limit your future potential. We are the only medical tutoring company that makes USMLE preparation affordable to all students around the globe.  We teach a very diverse group of students on every continent (except Antartica).

Students today have an endless supply of study materials: textbooks, review books, online videos. Most of these resources are not geared toward teaching you the intricacies of USMLE questions and acing an exam. They’re either not concise enough or time-efficient enough, and don’t reflect the actual content of the exam or address the strategy needed to score high, speed needed to complete the test, or the anxiety students must overcome.

The objective of LectureBoss is to teach you in the most time-efficient manner how this massive amount of material has been questioned on USMLE exams from CBSE to Step 3 over the past 25 years so you can answer the maximum amount of questions on test day.

We’re here to make sure these extremely difficult exams don’t disrupt your life by delaying your entry into the clinics and your residency applications as we’ve witnessed happening to students in the past. Instead, we strive to help you get a top score so it enhances your application.

Each time you attend one of our tutoring sessions, we aim for you to learn at least 10 new facts that you thought you knew, but didn’t. Every fact counts on USMLE exams. One extra correct question can push you over the pass mark or get you that exclusive high score. We have met dozens of students over the years who missed passing the exam by one or two points.  When a student can consistently answer seven or eight of our questions in a row, we are confident they are going to pass.

Lectures are a great way to reach a large audience, but unfortunately, like most students, you have probably lost your attention or have fallen asleep at some point.  Private tutoring engages you to focus and leads to better comprehension, but can be expensive and not accessible to everyone. 

We have merged the lecture hall with private tutoring in what we call the FORUM.  In the FORUM, a live tutoring session is conducted by an instructor and observed by a student audience.  As a member of the student audience, you hear all the questions from the instructor, and you attempt to answer them, anticipate follow-up questions, and avoid traps and misleading details. This helps to keep you engaged and active in your learning. Students within the audience can see and hear the instructor, but will be anonymous and not visible to other students.  Topics covered in the FORUM will be delivered in one of three different formats: (1) live tutoring between an instructor and a main student which is observed by the student audience, (2) live tutoring where the instructor asks challenging questions and provides answers for the student audience but without a main student so the session moves at a faster pace, and (3) classic lecture style.  In these formats, we will always put an emphasis on asking realistic USMLE questions that appear repeatedly on exams.  This is the method that has brought us unparalleled success with students of all ranges and abilities.

As a member of the student audience in the FORUM, you will have the opportunity to volunteer to be the main student getting 1:1 private tutoring from the instructor.  We call this the hot seat, and we encourage everyone to volunteer to be in the hot seat.  Feeling the pressure and getting your nervousness out before exam day makes a big difference and builds confidence.  Students who volunteer for the hot seat will not be visible to the student audience, but your voice will be heard. 

If you or a student in the hot seat doesn’t know the answer to the instructor's question, we want you to guess. You’re going to have to guess a lot on test day. When a student in the hot seat gives a wrong answer, we will explore that wrong answer as well as discuss other answer distractors that appear on the test and test-writer traps. 

As a student in our audience, we want you to put away your resources and just focus on the instructor's questions and not use any "crutches" to help you that won't be available on test day.  If you are not in the hot seat, pretend you are the one being questioned, write down answers to the instructor's questions and take notes.  Follow along and ask yourself, “How would I have done on those questions? What areas do I now need to work on.” Our goal is to help give you that direction, and after each session our site will have answers to follow up questions from students, helpful notes and mnemonics related to the session topic.  You can always email us topics that you need more help with, and we will address these areas in future sessions.  The topics that we focus on in sessions are those most tested on USMLE exams and those that students struggle with the most.

The LectureBoss Team
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