2024 · Clinical Education

Salem's Rounds

A study tool built for one exam, one person, and one very specific kind of pressure.

What it is

Salem's Rounds is a study web app built for the INCICh subspecialty selection exam — the cardiology fellowship entrance at Mexico's National Institute of Cardiology. The exam covers internal medicine broadly, not just cardiology.

Built for Karina. Operated and developed by Enrique.

What it contains

Layer	Scale
Wiki	450 synthesized clinical pages across 10 medical modules
Flashcards	2,203 SM-2 spaced-repetition cards with due-date scheduling
MCQ bank	387 curated exam questions + 352 AI-generated, validated against source
Temario checklist	Full INCICh syllabus mapped to wiki pages — tracks real study progress

Modules

Gastroenterología · Infectología · Reumatología · Neumología · Nefrología · Endocrinología · Hematología · Cardiología · Neurología · Misceláneas

Each module passed a blind QA gate: 0 data fixers, 0 actionable flags before publish.

How it works

The pipeline converts wiki/*.md → JSON at build time. Flashcards run SM-2 to schedule review by dueAt. The checklist measures progress by syllabus items, not raw page count.

Profile-based progress: each user profile stores state in localStorage and syncs to Vercel Blob (/api/profile). If the API is unavailable, local progress is preserved and a discrete sync indicator shows status.

Stack

Frontend: Vite + React 18 + TypeScript + React Router
Rendering: react-markdown for wiki pages
Data pipeline: custom build:data script — wiki → wiki.generated.json, flashcards → flashcards.generated.json, MCQ → quiz.generated.json
Sync: Vercel Blob (private) for profile progress
Deploy: Vercel (GitHub-connected, auto-deploy on push)
Responsive: desktop full navigation · mobile bottom tab bar, no embedded PDFs

Status

v0.19.1 · Live · F0–F7 complete. All ten modules closed. Post-MVP work: UX refinement, full-text search, PWA/offline support.