The pervasive use of commercial-off-the-shelf products, such as but not limited to UWorld, Osmosis, and ScholarRX, by students outside of the formal curriculum is of growing concerns among medical educators. Informal discussions across institutions suggest that: (a) students are becoming increasingly intolerant of content that they consider contextually irrelevant because they do not explicitly address their immediate goal of achieving a competitive score on the USMLE Step exam; (b) faculty feel constrained by student evaluations that assert that they do not"teach-to-the-test," and present content that is deemed unsuitable; and (c) the products may have errors or omissions, and may be seen by students as a primary source of information even though they represent more of a"cliff note" version of the textbook.   The purpose of the proposed session is to facilitate a focused, interactive discussion on the use of commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) medical education resources (hereby referred to as MedED-COTS) based on research and the development of curriculum that integrates the use of MedED-COTS by the authors over the past 1.5 years. Discussing lessons learned, along with related research and experience across institutions intends to provide useful insights for addressing the concerns and for better understanding the innovative, creative, and synergistic potential of integrating the use of such resources to guide future research and practice.