For medicine students at the UvA
Study from your own courses. Not from a general textbook.
WhiteCoat reads the material of your courses on Canvas — the ZSO’s, the lectures, the toetsmatrijs — and builds summaries, practice questions and a study plan out of it. Everything carries a reference to its source, so you can check it yourself.
Free for students of the faculty. You need your Canvas account.
OVV-2 · Exam blueprint: 6 questions
Pre-eclampsia
- Hypertension arising after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with proteinuria or organ damage.1
- The placenta is the cause; delivery is the only treatment that ends it.2
- In severe cases magnesium sulfate is given to prevent eclamptic seizures.3
Sources
- ZSO Hypertensive disorders — p. 4
- Working group Pregnancy complications — slide 11
- Lecture Obstetrics — 24:18
The problem is not that there is too little
One block of medicine produces hundreds of pages of ZSO’s, working groups, lectures and papers. There is no shortage of material — there is a shortage of overview. Which topic weighs heavily on the exam? Where is it explained? What did you get wrong last time? Answering that costs evenings you would rather spend learning.
What you get
Summaries with footnotes
One summary per topic, written from the material of your own course, with numbered references to the ZSO, the slide or the lecture it came from. Click one and you are at the source.
Practice from the toetsmatrijs
The toetsmatrijs says which topics the exam asks about and at which Bloom level. The practice follows that distribution, in the style of your own faculty’s exams — multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and a mock paper in the proportions of the real thing.
Lectures you can read
Every recorded lecture is transcribed and joined to the slide that was on screen at the time. Searching for a word takes you to the minute it was said.
A study plan that knows where you are
The topics of your next exam, heaviest first, with what you have already read and what you have marked as known. It reopens where you left off.
Repetition on a schedule
A question you got wrong comes back before you forget it, and one you know comes back less and less often.
Your own results
Grades from Canvas and sittings from Ans in one place, with the topics where you lost marks.
How it works
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Make an account
With your email address or your Google account. That is separate from Canvas.
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Connect Canvas
You paste a Canvas token once. We use it to fetch your courses and your material — nothing else.
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We read it through
Documents, pages and lectures are read, sorted by topic and joined to your toetsmatrijs. The first time takes a while.
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You start where it counts
At the topic that weighs the most and that you are least sure of.
Why you can trust it
Nothing is invented
A summary or a practice question may only exist if there is a sentence in the material underneath it that says so. If the model cannot point at that sentence, nothing is written. Better no summary than a wrong one: a wrong practice question gets learned as though it were right.
You always see where it came from
Every claim carries a numbered reference to the file, the slide or the minute of the lecture. You do not have to believe us — you can check.
Material stays the faculty’s
What your course shares is for the students of that course. None of it is open on the internet: all of it sits behind your own sign-in.
You can walk away
You can revoke your Canvas token at any time, in Canvas itself. What we hold about you, you can ask for and have deleted.
Start with the topic that weighs the most
Signing up takes a minute. You see what we found in your courses before you have to believe anything.