UCIrvine iMedEd iPad App Review App Name: FIGO Staging Price: $9.99 Brief Description: This app describes the various gynecologic cancers, including FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) staging descriptions, histopathology, survival rates and treatment plans. OVERALL Pros: This is an awesome app for a med student interested in GYN oncology or those on their Read More…
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USMLE Step 2 Secrets, 3rd Edition
UCIrvine iMedEd iPad App Review App Name: USMLE Step 2 Secrets, 3rd Edition Price: $39.99 Brief Description: This app is an electronic version of the popular book, USMLE Step 2 Secrets, that is used by medical students across the country in preparation for their exam. The app offers the full text of the book, by Read More…
FIRST AID Q&A for the USMLE Step 2 CK
UCIrvine iMedEd iPad App Review App Name: FIRST AID Q&A for the USMLE Step 2 CK Price: $41.99 Brief Description: Qbank to prepare for Step 2CK OVERALL Pros: Great qbank for step 2CK. Should NOT replace UWorld, but is definitely a great addition. I had verbatum questions on a few of my shelfs throughout the Read More…
The Merck Manual – Professional Edition
UCIrvine iMedEd iPad App Review App Name: The Merck Manual – Professional Edition Price: $34.99 Brief Description: The Merck Manual is a resource for medical professionals that provides clinical information on a multitude of diseases. It allows you to search by symptom, section, or keyword. The resource provides essential information on the evaluation, diagnosis, and Read More…
Downcast
UCIrvine iMedEd iPad App Review App Name: Downcast Price: $1.99 Brief Description: Full featured podcast app. Supports audio and vido podcasts, with a vast array of configuration options including iCloud synching, volume amplification and playback speed modulation. OVERALL Pros: Amazingly flexible podcasting app, which can do any number of things, from subscribing to custom URLs Read More…
Radiology 2.0: One Night in the ED – iPad Version
UCIrvine iMedEd iPad App Review App Name: Radiology 2.0: One Night in the ED – iPad Version Price: Free Brief Description: Practice reading and interpreting CT scans OVERALL Pros: Excellent app to learn to read and interpret CT images. Fantastic user-friendly interface allows to browse throughout the image with scrolling your finger on the interface. Read More…
PEER VIII Emergency Medicine Question Bank for iOS
Brief video review of the $69.99 PEER VIII iPhone app with comparisons to the print and online version. Pros: Same 450 questions as the print and online versions Priced at $69.99 vs $275 for print or online subscription High-quality resizable images Cons: Only formatted for iPhone, sorry iPad users Shorter explanations than print/online No way Read More…
Tech Talk Tuesday @ 9/18/12: Anki Flashcards and Biochemistry apps
This week’s Tech Talk Tuesday included three presentations on apps to help medical students in their studies during the first and second years. AnkiMobile Flashcards were presented by Kate Xie, MS2. Kate did a demonstration of the app, both on a laptop and the iPad, and then showed students how to make flashcards using the Read More…
iPad Keyboard Cases
(09/13/2012) Update: We have also had the opportunity to evaluate the Crux360 case by CruxCase. CruxCase Crux360 Cost: $99.00 Pros The clamshell design of the case gives the impression that your iPad + keyboard is now a mini-laptop. Opening up the case and using it with the keyboard is one motion, i.e., no propping of Read More…
Sylvius MR Atlas of the Human Brain on Modality Body – Clinical App Review
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7_930gxCTs[/youtube] Walkthrough and review of the Sylvius MR Atlas of the Human Brain on Modality Body and its potential role for medical student and resident education. Overall, great atlas that covers basics of neuroanatomy through an MR window. Useful applications for CT imaging as well as the relative anatomic locations are identical. The Modality Body Read More…