Practice during the day. Reinforce at night.
Medical school is a long review window. SomniCue uses Targeted Memory Reactivation, a sleep neuroscience technique. Pair a Cue with your review Sessions. Replay it during a Sleep Session.
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Items: Brachial plexus, Beta blockers, Strep pyogenes
Sound familiar?
Endless review queues
Long days of flashcards and question banks. Hard to get the same material to stick across passes.
Material that won't stick
You review for hours, feel confident, then miss it on a question bank a week later. Without reinforcement, memory fades.
Sleep is part of the work
Memory consolidates during sleep. Skipping sleep skips the part where consolidation happens.
Sleep is where consolidation happens. TMR gives it a Cue.
How med students use SomniCue
Five minutes to set up. The TMR loop, in your review routine.
Create an Item
Pick the Learn & Remember Category. Give the Item a title, a description, and one Cue.
Example: 'Brachial plexus branches'
Run a Session
A Session is your awake review. The Item's Cue plays in the background while you work.
Pair the Cue with question banks or notes
Run a Sleep Session
Pick the Item, choose Nap or Tonight, set bedtime and wake time. The Cue plays during sleep.
One Item can have many Sleep Sessions
Repeat
Per-Item history tracks Sessions and Sleep Sessions, so you can keep the same loop going.
The Cue stays tied to the Item
Useful for high-volume subjects
TMR research covers declarative memory (facts, terminology, and associations) as well as spatial, procedural, and emotional memory.
Anatomy
Muscle origins, nerve pathways, arterial supply
Pharmacology
Drug mechanisms, side effects, interactions
Microbiology
Pathogen characteristics, gram stains, virulence
Pathology
Disease presentations, histology findings
Early med student testers
"Created an Item for pharmacology mechanisms. Ran Sessions while I reviewed and Sleep Sessions overnight. The mechanisms felt easier to recall on the next pass."
Sarah M.
Medical student
"Used SomniCue through dedicated. Set up Items for the topics I kept missing on question banks. The routine itself made a difference."
James K.
Medical student
"I keep one Item per high-yield topic. One Cue each. Run a Session while I review, run a Sleep Session at night. Simple and repeatable."
Priya R.
Medical student
A SomniCue routine for USMLE/COMLEX prep
Dedicated is a long review window. SomniCue runs alongside your existing tools. Pair a Cue with the practice you are already doing.
Pair with question banks
Create Items for the topics you keep missing. Run a Session while you review.
High-yield focus
Keep a few Items active. A few clear Cues beats many overlapping ones.
Protect your sleep
The Sleep Session runs in the background. You get a normal night and reinforce the material.
Sample dedicated day
Frequently asked questions
Will the Cue wake me up?
The Cue plays at a low volume during a Sleep Session, low enough to avoid waking you. The research is built around this constraint.
How is this different from listening to lectures while sleeping?
The brain tunes out continuous audio during sleep. TMR uses a brief Cue that was paired with the activity while awake. The Cue plays during sleep to reactivate that pairing. It does not deliver new content.
What subjects work?
Anatomy, pharmacology, microbiology, pathology. Anything you can run a Session around. TMR research has covered declarative memory, spatial memory, motor memory, and emotional memory.
Can I use this during dedicated USMLE/COMLEX study?
Yes. Create Items for the high-yield topics you keep missing. Run Sessions while you review your question banks. Run Sleep Sessions overnight on those Items.
How many Items should I keep active?
Quality over quantity. A few Items, each with one clear Cue, is more useful than many overlapping Items. One Item can have many Sessions and Sleep Sessions over time.
Try TMR for yourself.
Create your first Item. Run a Session. Run a Sleep Session. Free to start, upgrade to Pro when you want unlimited Items.