An inescapable part  of the preclerkship curriculum  of Medical School is studying histology. Trying to accurately keep a vivid picture in your head of all those tissue structures is difficult and requires practice using the right study materials. This article is an objective review of all the best question banks for studying histology that are free and cost money.

Best Histology Question Banks

Statpearls Histology Question Bank

Stat pearls has an entire questions bank which just have histology questions. In total this question bank contains about 440 multiple choice Histology questions.  You can purchase this option by clicking on student on the home page,

 then you click on the part which says 95 Medical Student Exams, then scrolling down and finding the option which says “Histology-Medical Student.

Show below are the pricing options.

 Kenhub Histology Question Bank

Kenhub contains an entire Atlas of just HIstology questions. One criticism that I have about there Exam category histology questions is that they do not have images. The questions that have images associated with them are found in the Basic identification type questions. 

Med School Bootcamp Question Bank

This deserves to be number 1 on the lost. The medical School Bootcamp contains a Histology Section that comes with videos lesson plans and associated questions which are embedded in each video section. These “bites” can be taken right after you watch the video or they can be taken altogether at one time.

Specifically for the Histology Sections, there are usually over 50 questions for any given organ System. For example, For the Female Reproductive System there are about 80 questions which can be taken that cover histological sections of Female structures such as the ovaries, uterus, and primary follicles.

To access the Histology section. just scroll down the section which says Histology and it will then bring up all of the organ systems. From there you can choose which organ system to study.

Finally Med Bootcamp offers a variety of discount codes for purchase of their product. If you decide to go with Med Bootcamp, you can use the code MUBA10 at the checkout for 10% off.

Amboss

Amboss platform not only provides a variety of high quality histology questions, but  additionally it contains an overlay and caption feature which allows you to zoom in on histological images and read captions associated with the cell types included in the zoomed in area. The overlay feature allows you highlight specific regions of a histological image and includes annotations, arrows and markings to help users clearly and identify and understand the histology  image.

Teach me Anatomy

Although this platform is more known for its anatomy questions. It contains a section that has some histology questions on select organ systems. These histology questions are on Bone, Skeletal Muscle, Blood Vessels, Nerves, Lymphatics, Skin. The downside to this resource however is that there are no histology pictures.

Draw it to know it

Draw it to Know it is an interactive tutorial based learning platform in which the users learn by drawing relevant anatomical, and physiological structures to help cement the learning of the relevant topic. Users can purchase courses that are based on organ system. Within the Organ system course, there is a section which normally covers histology. At the end of this course there is a section in which you can take the course exam which consists of multiple choice questions covering all of the topic. Signing up for one course costs as little as 14.95 per course per month.

Which are the best free Histology Question Banks

Naviculars Anki Deck

Although this is not a question bank, it deserves a place on this list because it is quite helpful. This is an anki deck which contains histological subsections of important aspects of each organ systems. The card type it uses is image occlusion. Additionally it has a section that includes a comment that further explains the card.

Histology Guide.com (Free)

The quiz questions cover topics such as connective tissue, nervous tissue, peripheral blood and hematopoiesis. The only downside with this is that the quiz questions are not in written in multiple choice.

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In the index section you can find an even leather selection of slides which are alphabetically organized to make navigation easier

Digital Histology.org (Free)

This is a free  website created by Virginia Commonwealth Universtiy and contains a digital atlas of histological images. The question bank can be found by going to the section which says quizzes. 

The quizzes feature multiple choice questions,which are mostly identification type questions. The images in the questions range from light microscopy images, electron microscopy images, as well as blood smears. Additionally, if you get a question wrong you can keep trying until you get it right or press the show solution option. 

 This resource also contains a review textbook.

ArumScience.com (Free)

This contains a powerpoint of histology images and it asks you to identify which one. There are 22 different images In total and the answer key can be found on the last slide.

Medicine.TamU.edu (Free)

This resource contains a histology quiz, histology tutorials, electron microscopy, immunohistochemistry as well as a variety of other other topics. The histology quizzes are randomly generated

The histology question bank is made up of quizzes which are randomly generated. To access the histology questions bank, click on Histology quizzes, and then this will take you to a page which contains 5 separate histology quizzes.

Access Medicine

Owned by the educational company McGraw Hill, Access Medicine is an online Educational resource which contains ebooks and question banks for basic and clinical medical sciences. One of the subject areas that it is strong in is Histology. To access the histology question bank, all you do is click on the section which says Study tools,

then click on the section which says basic sciences and then this will then bring up a drop down menu which lists Pathology and Histology as an option.

Once you click here you can then select any of the texts and generate a multiple choice quiz from any of those textbooks.

Median.luc.edu (Free)

This Histology question bank is from Loyola College of Medicine. Although this question bank does not necessarily use multiple choice questions, it gives you very nicely taken histology images and asks you to identify where the arrow is pointing. An example is seen below. You can also check for the correct answer in the upper right hand corner.

The full library of all of the Histology questions and practicals can be seen by going to the main menu.

Cram.com (free)

Cram.com is a web based app that contains pre made flashcards for multiplle subjects including histology. The flashcards can be set up in such a way that they test users ability to match correct answers with histology images, in addition to the standard flashcard setting. One of the helpful pre made histology decks include the following deck.

In Conclusion

As you can see there are many question banks for Histology for Medical Students. Which ever one you decide to use depends on your personal needs and budget. Regardless of which one you choose, adding a histology question bank to your studying toolkit will surely set you up for success.