For MBBS students · clinical postings
Vitalo turns a chief complaint into a full history — every question paired with the reasoning behind it and the Hinglish line to actually say at the bedside.
Free · works on your phone · nothing to install
Chief complaint
What it does
Most students learn history-taking by copying a senior's list of questions. Vitalo gives you the list and the logic, so the questions stop being a ritual.
Tap the bulb on any question and you get why it discriminates — what a yes points to, what a no rules out.
Every question carries a romanised line for the ward — so you're not translating textbook English on the spot in front of a patient.
The must-not-miss list for that complaint sits above the questions — status epilepticus, the thrombolysis window, massive haemoptysis.
How it works
Type it in English or Hinglish — lakwa, kabz, khoon ki ulti, chakkar. 270 terms resolve to the right complaint.
You get the questions for that complaint, its pertinent negatives, a mnemonic, and a meter showing what you haven't asked yet.
Answers reweight a working differential live — and it accounts for age, sex, occupation and background, because a cough in a 60-year-old smoker isn't a cough in a 20-year-old.
Press save and the case becomes a clean English history — complaints, HOPC with pertinent negatives, differential with reasoning. Download it or copy it into your file.
Reference library
Every complaint, outside a case — approach, questions with reasoning, red flags, differential table, cross-links to PSM and Forensic, and exam pearls.
Across Constitutional, Respiratory, Cardiovascular, GI & Hepatobiliary, Neurological, Renal, Musculoskeletal, Endocrine, Dermatology and Oral systems.
Open Medicine →
Painful vs painless, sudden vs gradual — anterior segment, posterior segment, orbit, lids, neuro-ophthalmology, paediatric and trauma presentations.
Open Ophthalmology →
Acute abdomen, hernia and scrotal, breast, colorectal, vascular, urological, head/neck and postoperative surgical presentations.
Open Surgery →
Across CVS, GI, Neuro, Renal, Respiratory, Constitutional, Heme, Derm, MSK, Endocrine and Growth.
Open Pediatrics →
Ear, nose, throat, head and neck — from otalgia and hearing loss through nasal, pharyngeal, laryngeal and salivary-gland presentations.
Open ENT →
Obstetrics (antenatal, intrapartum, postpartum) and Gynaecology (menstrual, pelvic, vulvovaginal, prolapse, breast and infertility complaints).
Open OBGYN →
This is a teaching aid, not a diagnostic tool. The differential is rule-based — it reads clear yes/no and keyword answers, and it can be wrong. Use it to practise reasoning and to check whether you missed a question, then cross-check against your standard textbook and your seniors. Never use it for a real clinical decision.
Pick a complaint you saw in the ward today and run it through properly. It takes about five minutes.