About

G'day!

My name is Ben. I'm an Emergency Medicine trainee based in Melbourne, and the founder of Socket.

This all started as a passion project after preparing for my own fellowship, fuelled by a desire to make something that would help a few of my mates get through their own exams.

The stakes are enormous. Fail an in-training exam, and you're looking at months of extra study, a six to twelve month career delay, and thousands of dollars in college fees. Yet despite all this, the tools at our disposal have traditionally been woeful: cloud-based folders of PDFs, Word documents shared in group chats, and online question banks that are overpriced and rarely updated to reflect current local practice.

Socket is my response: a platform that honours the gravity of our exams with robust content, a simple interface, and a learning engine that adapts to individual needs. I've designed it around the way busy people learn - in stolen moments, on the go, with limited time and under enormous pressure.

Coming soon are richer question formats, deeper personalisation, and expansion into adjacent exam types. My hope is that this can eventually be applied far beyond medicine, to other fields where the concepts are broad, the learning is complex, and the stakes are high.

If you have ideas, want to get involved, or are curious about where this is headed, I'd genuinely love to hear from you.

Happy studying!
Ben