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LIMES
Liver and Intestinal Medical Education for Students

The liver is the second largest organ in the body. It deserves more than a footnote in your education.

A high-yield clinical curriculum — equipping you to interpret liver enzymes, recognize chronic liver disease, manage cirrhosis complications, and navigate liver and intestinal transplant medicine.

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1 in 4
US adults estimated to have fatty liver disease
35%
Projected shortage in hepatology providers by 2033
62%
Transplant hepatology fellowship positions left unfilled in 2023
22
Structured topics, from history-taking to post-transplant care

From first principles to the transplant list

22 structured topics across four domains — built for every stage of medical training, from your first liver-focused history to post-transplant immunosuppression.

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Built for active learning

Every topic is more than a reading assignment. Choose how you engage with the material, interact with the content, and track your progress as you go.

Reading Modes

Three ways to engage

Focus gives you a continuous-scroll layout with a sticky sidebar showing section progress. Tabbed lets you jump to any section independently. Guided steps you through one section at a time.

Interactive Components

Interact with the content

Work through diagnostic criteria with step-by-step checklists. Review drug classes with FlipDeck cards. Filter treatment options by category. Apply concepts through clinical case vignettes with self-quiz questions.

Progress Tracking

Track where you are

Mark individual sections complete as you go. Progress saves to your browser and persists between sessions — return to any topic and pick up exactly where you left off.

Hepatology is undertaught and undermatched

In 2023, 62% of transplant hepatology fellowship positions went unfilled. A projected 35% shortage of hepatology providers is expected by 2033. The problem starts in medical school.

4.9M
Americans diagnosed with cirrhosis
80%
of cirrhosis cases undiagnosed at first decompensation
777
Liver transplant physicians in the US for 106,962 prevalent transplant recipients
Rising
HCC incidence — now a leading cause of cancer-related death

LIMES™ was built to address the gap between what standard curricula cover and what future physicians — regardless of specialty — need to recognize and manage. Every internist, family physician, and emergency medicine doctor will see liver disease. This curriculum gives you the foundation to act on it.

Free for every medical student

LIMES™ is freely available — no login, no paywall, no institutional access required. Any medical student, at any stage of training, can use the full curriculum. Questions or feedback? We'd like to hear from you.

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