Subspecialty Is Now Free for Every US Clinician and Trainee
Mahmood Khan, MDTL;DR: Subspecialty is free — forever — for US physicians, fellows, residents, and medical students. Verify with your NPI or .edu email and you're in.
When we started Subspecialty, the goal was simple: build the clinical knowledge tool we wished we had in residency and fellowship. Evidence-based. Fast. Actually useful at the point of care and at 11pm when you're prepping for tomorrow's cases.
Today, we're making a change that matches that goal.
What's changing
Subspecialty is now free for every verified US physician, fellow, resident, and medical student. That includes full access to:
- AI clinical chat — ask real clinical questions and get answers grounded in PubMed, primary literature, and major society guidelines, with citations you can click through and verify
- Multi-specialty question bank — board-style questions with spaced repetition, expanding across specialties
- No paywall, no trial, no credit card
Verify once with your NPI number or .edu email and you have full access.
Why we're doing this
The best clinical knowledge tools shouldn't sit behind a $500 subscription while you're learning medicine or taking care of patients. Trainees in particular are being asked to pay for an increasingly long list of question banks, review resources, and AI tools — on top of tuition, loans, and the opportunity cost of training itself.
We looked hard at the economics and chose a model that already works for clinician-facing tools at scale — one that lets us keep Subspecialty free for verified clinicians without selling your data or compromising the integrity of the clinical content. It's the right fit for what we're building.
Who qualifies
- US physicians (MD/DO) — verified via NPI
- Fellows and residents — verified via NPI or institutional email
- Medical students — verified via .edu email from a US medical school
Verification takes less than a minute.
What's next
We're expanding the question bank across specialties, improving the chat's reasoning on complex multi-system cases, and rolling out features built specifically for how clinicians actually study and practice — not how ed-tech companies imagine they do.
If you've been waiting to try Subspecialty, now is the time.
Questions, feedback, or feature requests? We read every message. Reach us at hello@subspecialty.com.