Pre-Matriculation Academic Student Success (PASS)

Increased incoming student retention. More predictable student success. Earlier support for struggling students. Help prevent remediation problems before they become serious.

Start with your institution and follow a learning system built around the resources your school already provides.

The Product

What Do We Do?

PASS gives medical education institutions the ability to teach their incoming medical students how to use the study resources, practice questions, support, and curriculum they already provide, so students always know what to learn next and spend less time and effort on things that don't matter.

It is the first of its kind and the only medical education learning system that has successfully helped medical students reach high standards while making it easier to get there at the same time.

For medical students, PASS has helped them get better academic results while spending significantly less time studying.

For medical schools, the same system has helped increase incoming student retention, give faculty a chance to detect struggling students earlier, and help decrease remediation burden before things are already too late.

Real-World Use

Where PASS Is Already Being Used

WMOL PASS has already been successfully used in both one-on-one sessions with medical students and across multiple institutions for the last three years. It has numerous testimonials showing the effectiveness of the product from individual medical students. It also has a number of publications and emerging research data showing similar effectiveness when done through institutions.

Learner Experiences

Better grades with less time studying.

More time for life outside of school.

Less time worrying about falling behind.

Always knowing what to do next no matter the year.

Publications and Emerging Data

Across multiple campuses, the data has shown PASS has helped:

  • Increase incoming student retention.
  • Make student success more predictable.
  • Give faculty an earlier chance to support struggling students.
  • Help prevent remediation problems before they become serious.

Why Trust the System

Tested in the Most Demanding Environments

The WMOL PASS System is the only medical education learning system that has been successful in helping medical students reach high standards while making it easier to get there at the same time.

The system has been tested and successfully used to complete both Step 1 and Step 2 licensing exams back-to-back, each within a five-month time period, while spending roughly a third of the preparation time per day compared with traditional timelines.

At the same time, the system still allowed for the successful completion of a 100-mile ultramarathon while maintaining healthy amounts of sleep, nutrition, mental health, and a life outside of medical education.

The system has been tested and succeeded even when your time, energy, and emotional bandwidth are limited.

The Learning System

A Four-Part Repeatable Learning System

Students are taught a four-part system that teaches them how to use all of the resources provided by your institution in the most efficient manner.

Understanding complex material

Understand

Students figure out what matters, what they need to know, and how to use the resources around them to actually understand it.

Building usable memory

Remember

Students turn that understanding into something they can retrieve and use later instead of repeatedly starting over.

Applying knowledge through questions

Apply

Students use practice questions to test what they actually know and find the parts that still need work.

Stabilizing the learning process over time

Stay Consistent

Students learn how to keep the system working as the amount of information, pressure, and responsibility increases.

The Four-Week Program

How the Four-Week Program Works

Each week teaches a different part of the system, then gives students a chance to use it before the full pressure of medical school begins.

Week 1 learning foundation
Week 1

Understand and Build the Foundation

Learners learn the workflow, select resources, identify essential information, build conceptual understanding, and establish a manageable daily rhythm.

Week 2 question-based application
Week 2

Apply and Reveal Gaps

Learners begin consistent question-based application to determine whether understanding can be retrieved and used rather than merely recognized.

Week 3 correction and consolidation
Week 3

Correct and Consolidate

Learners revisit missed questions, identify where their reasoning broke down, and refine incomplete working memories until weak areas become more reliable.

Week 4 stabilization under variation
Week 4

Stabilize Under Simulated Conditions

Learners complete randomized sets combining prior and new material in order to build confidence and competence in simulated exam environments.

Implementation

Designed to Fit Your Institution

Every medical school is different. We understand how much work goes into building and managing your curriculum, resources, practice questions, and support systems. That's why we work with you through PASS to give your students a way to use everything you've already put together. They spend less time and energy figuring out what to do, and you get to spend more time using what you curated for them.

Works With What You Already Have

PASS can work around your existing curriculum, platforms, schedules, practice questions, study resources, and student-support systems.

Includes Its Own Implementation System

We give students the structure for how to use those pieces together without asking you to redesign the curriculum you've already built.

Built Around Your Environment

We work with your institution to adjust how PASS is implemented based on the resources, schedule, expectations, and incoming students you're actually working with.

Designed to Scale Without Adding More Work for Faculty

PASS gives students a repeatable structure they can follow without requiring faculty to recreate the same guidance for every incoming student individually.

We aren't trying to replace what you've built. We just help your students get more out of it.

Next Steps

Let's Discuss How PASS Can Work for You

We'll walk you through how we would integrate your material, pricing, answer any additional questions, and show you what PASS could look like at your institution.

Prefer to contact us directly? WangMethodofLearning@gmail.com

A Way To Always Know What To Learn Next.