Foreground
Free · for residency teams & individuals

Your team’s home for the medical literature.

Foreground finds the paper, helps your club appraise it properly, and keeps the meeting and everything you decide in one shared place.

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No account needed to look around. Watch a demo or browse the library first.

30M+ records searchable Transparent, auditable ranking Updated daily

The whole loop, in one shared library · Surveil → Appraise → Present → Document → Retain

01 · Surveil
It finds the paper PubMed scanned daily, ranked by transparent signals, filtered to your club’s fields.
02 · Appraise
You take it apart The workspace matches the design to the right framework and coaches you through it. It’s the heart of the loop.
03 · Present
You run the meeting Build slides from your appraisal and present with speaker notes and a laser.
04 · Document
Faculty signs off Submit for review; sign-off maps to ACGME milestones and exports for your program.
05 · Retain
It sticks Your own judgments become spaced-repetition cards for the wards and the boards.
My Club Feed Your daily feed filtered to your fields and relevance bar. Sort by score, impact, or “For you”.
Library (Browse) Search 30M+ records with plain language or PubMed syntax. High-quality evidence by default.
Reading List Save, organize, take notes, and appraise. Export citations and share folders.
Appraisal Workspace Guided, design-matched critical appraisal for every paper. It’s the core of Foreground.
Sessions Schedule journal-club meetings, upload slides, and present with built-in speaker tools.
Compare Beta Answer clinical questions with For/Against trials, observational context, and a verdict.
Radar Regulatory decisions, trials, guidance, healthtech news, and four daily desk briefings.
Ask Corpus Your AI research librarian. Answers grounded in the indexed literature, with citations.
From the people using it
Overall very excited to explore this new platform and tool to change how we approach literature searches and journal clubs! I like the features of landmarks and radar to easily find key publications.
Gastroenterology
I love this. It’s like pubmed, but you don’t need to remember all the search criteria the librarian taught you in medical school. A simple way to find relevant and current research in my field is beyond helpful, and being able to collaborate and critique papers with colleagues makes it fun. I could see myself reaching for this often at work.
Hospitalist
Finally a one-stop shop! Foreground completely streamlines the gap between clinical research and bedside practice. I wish I had this tool when I was in residency. It is excellent at keeping me up-to-date. I particularly love the AI librarian to summary function. It would have made every EBM lecture 100x easier and more organized!
Internal Medicine