about iatroX
Built at the intersection of medicine and technology.
Dr Kola Tytler
MBBS CertHE MBA MSt MRCGP
General Practitioner
Founder & Developer of iatroX
Bringing a background in building digital products to the everyday challenges of clinical practice and medical learning.
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- MBBSKing’s College London
- MRCGPRoyal College of General Practitioners
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- MBA (merit)University of Birmingham
- MSt EntrepreneurshipUniversity of Cambridge
- AI EngineerIBM-certified
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Why iatroX exists
“iatroX is the tool
I needed to exist.”
Engineering
Building digital products
Medicine
Understanding the daily friction
iatroX
Bringing the two together
Before medicine, I built and scaled digital products to millions of users — learning how to ship fast, iterate with discipline, and think in systems. That engineering foundation sits behind every part of iatroX today.
I have dyspraxia and dyslexia. For most of my education that meant fighting the system rather than using it — information scattered across dozens of tabs, dense guideline documents that punish non-linear readers, and search interfaces that return noise when you need signal. Every unnecessary retrieval step burns cognitive power that could be spent on clinical reasoning, pattern recognition, or simply being present with a patient. That cost isn't abstract to me; I feel it every working day.
Qualifying at King's College London and completing GP training in London, I saw that this isn't just a neurodivergent problem — it's a universal one. Cognitive overload at the point of care affects every clinician: the time pressure, the knowledge fragmentation, the friction of searching five different sources to confirm a single prescribing decision. The research in cognitive science and information retrieval is clear — working memory is finite, and every avoidable retrieval step degrades the quality of the decisions that follow. Yet most clinical tools are still built as if attention were unlimited.
iatroX is the tool I needed to exist: a single platform with a regulated UK clinical-reference component that eliminates retrieval friction, surfaces authoritative guidance in seconds, and helps clinicians and students retain what they learn — grounded in cognitive science rather than intuition. If it preserves even a fraction of the cognitive power that clinicians currently waste on searching, navigating, and re-finding — it will have been worth building.
Four ways to use iatroX
iatroX brings together four capabilities in one platform: a UK clinical-reference component, an adaptive examination engine covering UK, US, Canadian and Australian boards and specialist diplomas, a Socratic Tutor that turns missed questions into guided reasoning sessions, and integrated CPD tracking for UK clinicians.
Clinical Reference
Explore clinical questions with referenced answers and links to source guidance.
explore askiatroXQbanks
Practise for your exam with adaptive questions, explanations and spaced repetition.
find your examSocratic Tutor
Work through the reasoning behind an answer with guided questions and discussion.
meet your tutorCPD
Connect question practice with personal reflection and records of your learning.
explore CPDiatroX's UK clinical-reference component is UKCA-marked and registered with the MHRA as a Class I medical device. The Q-Banks, Socratic Tutor and other learning tools are separate educational products.
The learning engine is built on peer-reviewed methods: active recall, spaced repetition, and adaptive sequencing. These are not buzzwords — they are the learning mechanisms with the strongest evidence base for long-term retention, and iatroX applies them automatically so clinicians and students don't just find information, they retain it.
Whether you are a GP, a specialist trainee preparing for a diploma, an international medical graduate adapting to a new system, or a pharmacy student sitting the GPhC CRA — iatroX is designed to close the gap between knowledge and action.
How iatroX teaches
The Socratic Tutor extends the same cognitive-load philosophy into exam preparation. Instead of giving students yet another passive explanation, it asks them to retrieve, reason, and articulate their thinking first — then identifies the misconception and reconnects the concept to the question and its published exam framework.
This matters because exam performance is not simply about recognising an explanation when you see it. It is about retrieving the right concept under pressure, applying it to a clinical stem, and correcting the reasoning pattern that produced the wrong answer. iatroX combines active recall, spaced repetition, adaptive sequencing and Socratic questioning so a missed question becomes a durable learning event.
iatroX's UK clinical-reference component is UKCA-marked and registered with the MHRA as a Class I medical device. It is built under a disciplined development process with published technical methodology, a peer-reviewed arXiv research paper, and established data partnerships. The Q-Banks, Socratic Tutor and other learning tools are separate educational products. Exam content is reviewed against the associated published blueprints.
Where iatroX is going
The goal is broad adoption across healthcare systems worldwide — to make evidence-based guidance second nature at the point of care rather than a time-consuming barrier. The roadmap extends from UK specialist diplomas and the GPhC pharmacy vertical into deeper clinical reference, CPD, and institutional deployments for NHS Trusts, deaneries and medical schools.