The medical literature,
organized.
Foreground runs daily surveillance across 30 medical and surgical specialties. It reads the flagship journals cover to cover, sweeps thousands more by topic, and organizes every article by relevance to each field, tagged by study design, with the paper's own conclusion shown. It also includes the landmark trials for each field and a search box that covers all of PubMed. An open library for clinicians who prefer to appraise the evidence themselves.
>30,000 articles indexed across >3,000 unique journals, and growing daily.
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How it works
An open catalogue
No account, no setup, no API key. Search across 30 fields spanning the internal-medicine rotations and the surgical specialties, adjust the relevance bar, and filter by study design. The library keeps itself current, since automatic surveillance pulls and ranks new literature on its own schedule. The landmark-trials collection for every field is one click away, filterable by era.
How ranking works
Each article is ranked by relevance to each field, based on the query that surfaced it, its evidence type (a guideline or RCT ranks above a commentary), and topic similarity. It is tagged by study type, with the paper's own conclusion shown. The tool organizes the literature; it does not interpret it for you.
Start a club with your group
Name a club, set a password, and share both with your residency program, division, or study group. Everyone signs in to the same club, with shared fields, shared saved and read marks, and custom PubMed queries. Pulling fresh literature is free and needs no API key.
The fields
What it doesn't do
No medical-literature tool covers everything. These are the limits worth keeping in mind.
- Relevance is not a quality grade. The score reflects how central an article is to a field, based on the query that found it, its study type, and topic match. It does not say whether the study is sound, so a high score can still sit on a weak trial. The appraisal is yours.
- The feed favors recent clinical literature. Daily surveillance covers these 30 specialties and their journals, so basic science, niche topics, non-English work, and very new articles are less complete here. The search box covers all of PubMed when you need the rest.
- Summaries come straight from the abstract. The card shows the paper's stated conclusion when the abstract provides one. Nothing is rewritten or invented, but nothing is interpreted either, so open the abstract and the paper for the full picture.
- Citation data takes time to build. Citation counts and attention metrics develop over months, so the newest articles often have little or none.
- It does not replace reading the paper or clinical judgment. It helps you find and organize the literature. The interpretation is up to you.