Category Archives: Announcements

Khan Academy Competition for Medical Students

The AAMC, Khan Academy, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)  announced a new  collaboration to provide free, online resources to help students prepare for the revised MCAT that will be administered in 2015. To develop the new content, they will … Continue reading

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Dr. Eric Topol tweets about recent iMedEd announcement!

Dr. Eric Topol, author of the book The Creative Destruction of Medicine, and recent NBC News Story re-tweeted the recent iMedEd announcement. In his book, he talks about the need for medical schools to innovate to better prepare students for … Continue reading

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Medical Microbiology iBook Replaces Traditional Lab Manual

At UC Irvine School of Medicine, we have provided our second year medical students with a digital medical microbiology lab manual. Since medical microbiology is an image intense course, Jon Kevan (University of Hawaii) and I took the advantage of … Continue reading

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And the Winners of the Med AppJam are…

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The Med AppJam kicked off on November 9, 2012 with a lot of excitement and concluded in the same fashion on November 19, 2012 with an Awards Ceremony where 19 teams presented their apps to a team of judges and … Continue reading

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Telemedicine and the UNE Australia Collaboration

UCIrvine School of Medicine and the University of New England in rural Armidale, Australia, has started an international collaboration to bring innovative technologies such as the iPad, ultrasound and telemedicine to the students and faculty of the two medical school … Continue reading

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The Med AppJam Kicks-off!

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On Friday, November 9, 2012, the Med AppJam kicked-off with about 115 students assigned to 19 teams consisting of students from the School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) and the School of Medicine (SOM). The first ever event of … Continue reading

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iMedEd at Mobile World 2012

Mobile World was a day-long event hosted by the Information and Computer Science (ICS) Student Council held on October 3, 2012 in Aldrich Park. The goal of this event was to showcase the many aspects of mobile technologies to the … Continue reading

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iMedEd at the 2012 Western Regional Emergency Medicine Student Symposium

This yearly event was held on September 22, 2012 hosted by UC Irvine School of Medicine in collaboration with Keck School of Medicine of USC.  This symposium “is intended to give 1st – 4th year medical students a closer look … Continue reading

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Health 2.0 / Digital Literacy Elective Starts Tuesday September 25th @ 5:30pm

One week from now, we will be starting our Health 2.0 / Digital Literacy Elective. Here are the details below: Tuesday, September 25th 5:30 – 7:00pm 3rd floor Colloquium in MedEd For more information about the course, please visit: http://health2course.tumblr.com … Continue reading

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Med AppJam Launching November 9, 2012

We are excited to announce that the UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) and the UCI School of Medicine (SOM) along with the ICS Student Council are planning the first ever Med AppJam, an event to … Continue reading

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