Our first iMedEd Tech Talk, “Using Digital Flashcards” is Wednesday, September 25th. In order to get the conversation going, we would like to invite two or three students to demonstrate how they use Anki, StudyBlue or any other flashcard app. Our “thank you” is an educational app of your choice ($15.00 or less). Please email Read More…
Category: Announcements
UCIrvine Med students win “Khan Academy Competition”
Raja Narayan, 4th year MD student, and Ronald Sahyouni (incoming medical student) were two out of fifteen people who announced as the winners of the MCAT Video Competition, cooperation between Khan Academy, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Association of American Medical Colleges were from University of Califonia, Irvine. Congratulations! To read more, click Read More…
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 sponsor a competition to encourage medical students and residents to create educational tutorials (collections of Read More…
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 practicing in the new era of digital medicine. Here’s the link to the NBC News Read More…
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 the iBook platform to create a laboratory manual with 13 separate exercises. Our iBook includes Read More…
And the Winners of the Med AppJam are…
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 interested guests. The Awards Ceremony began with opening statements from Johnson Liu, President of the Read More…
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 campuses separated by a geographic distance of almost 7,500 miles. Through this collaboration, state-of-the-art broadband Read More…
The Med AppJam Kicks-off!
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 this kind at UCIrvine has been a huge success so far with the number of Read More…
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 UCI community. As a part of this event, the ICS Student Council invited students from Read More…
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 at Emergency Medicine in order to make an informed decision before choosing the specialty, as Read More…