Built by people who needed it.

Preround started with a course correction. Our founder spent all four years of medical school preparing for plastic surgery residency, four sub-internships included, and one week before applications opened realized it was the wrong path. Not for lack of effort; for lack of information. Medical school teaches you medicine. It does not show you a specialty's culture, its politics, its daily practice, or what its program directors actually want. The people who could have said so, the residents living it right now, were never accessible.

That information gap is not an inconvenience. It feeds the quiet crisis in medical training. Twenty-seven percent of medical students screen positive for depression and one in ten report suicidal ideation. Nearly twenty-nine percent of residents experience depression or depressive symptoms. Suicide is among the leading causes of resident death, and physicians, women especially, die by suicide at higher rates than the general population. About one in five surgical residents leaves training altogether. Behind each of those numbers is, in part, a person who chose a path with too little information and learned too late what it would cost to change course.

We believe better mentorship, earlier, is one of the most practical levers against all of it. Clarity at the start of a career means less wasted time, less debt, less chronic stress, and fewer good people leaving medicine. Keeping physicians in the workforce begins with helping them choose the right place in it.

That is what Preround does. We match you with a mentor in the specialty you are actually considering: a resident, fellow, or attending who is where you want to be right now. Every request is reviewed by a real person and hand-matched. No browsing, no guesswork, and no charge until we have confirmed your match.

It extends to premedical and predental students too, because the hardest gate is the first one. Applying is expensive, and more than half of applicants are turned away each cycle. The cost of rejection runs deeper than fees: compounding loan interest, repeated cycles, and years that never come back. Some students are even steered toward master's programs that add little to a medical career but plenty to the institutions selling them. A mentor who recently got in can tell you what actually moves an application, before you spend the money.

And there is a second half to the idea. The mentorship industry moves money toward people far removed from training, while the residents holding the most current knowledge are overworked and underpaid. Preround routes it the other way: mentorship priced for people still in training, and real income for the mentors doing the work. Students decide better for less. The people just ahead of them get paid for what they know.