U-Central App by Unbound Medicine Review by Chase Warren

App Synopsis: Unbound Medicine’s Ucentral app is a portal for medical reference and textbooks, not unlike Skyscape. Included in my review bundle: 5-Minute Clinical Consult A-Z Drug Facts Drug Interaction Facts Medline Journals Review of Natural Products Most Apropos to Med Students and Physicians: – 5-Min Clinical Consult is quite a potent little tool. This Read More…

Podcast of Student-run Workshop

Click here for the podcast or search for UC Irvine in iTunesU, Click on iPad Orientation, then iPad Student Workshop. This is a podcast of the Tuesday, October 5, lunch-time iPad workshop which covers iAnnotate (Jim Kingsley), Dropbox (Martin Hoffman), and Noterize (Kal Shah).  Total Runtime is 35 minutes.  Check it out if you missed Read More…

How to subscribe to lecture podcasts

I’ve uploaded a new video to the iPad Orientation iTunesU site called “iPad Podcast Sync” that shows you how to subscribe to the lecture podcasts.  Why is this important?  When you subscribe, iTunes will automatically download the newest podcast that is posted, so everytime that you sync up your iPad, the lectures will be put Read More…

iAnnotate Version 1.3 Update

Hi everyone, in case you haven’t updated your app, there’s a new updated version of iAnnotate out there.  Here are the list of new features below.  The main one is folders and better syncing! Graphical, thumbnail-based file manager. Create and manage folders, move and duplicate files, and work with multiple selected documents. Stamp annotations: choose Read More…

Evernote and Dropbox Review by David Tran

Evernote – http://www.evernote.com/about/premium/ Evernote is a great note taking program that syncs your notes across multiple devices including iPad, Mac, Windows, iPhone/iPod, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile. The idea is to be able to create any kind of multimedia note and post it to your notebook at any time. If you can’t access it through the Read More…

Medical Spanish App Review by Chris King

A life saving app in SoCal. Do not attempt to practice medicine as a Gringo in California without this application! This $5 app is worth ten times the price over for all those times when you just need some part of the physical exam translated and a translator isn’t needed/not available. I could not have Read More…

Epocrates Review by Nicholas Sawyer

MS4 Epocrates Review When I was an MS2, Epocrates offered a free 4 year license for their full software “Epocrates Essentials Deluxe” valued at $199/year.  I initially didn’t find it very helpful because as a new MS2 I didn’t understand the majority of the topics included. Additionally, at the time I had an iPhone 3G, so the software ran painfully slowly. Immediately before 3rd year Read More…

iPad Testimonial by Audrey Nguyen

I recently went all Mac. No joke. iphone, ipad, then Macbook Pro, and I was so afraid of the transition because I was so used to using a PC and a blackberry and everything just being so darn complicated. It was the complete opposite. I learned how to use my Macbook in less than an Read More…

Digital Textbook Codes

I built a simple site that stores all of your activation codes for the current and the new texts. Please go to http://ed.hs.uci.edu/bookcodes/ and enter in your StudentID number. The codes for your additional texts should be there. If you have any additional problems, please let me know. A few quick points – the instructions Read More…