AppsHave an iPhone? Then download these fantastic apps. Some of these are also available on Android.
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BMJ Best Practice
***** (5 stars) If you have subscription to BMJ Best Practice via your institution, this is undoubtedly the best app you can have in your pocket. Look up differentials based on thousands of symptoms, or learn about the most up to date and concisely packaged information about a particular disease or condition. This is like having a regularly updated Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine and Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties combined in your pocket! (However, it is still important to get OHCM and OHCS to know what the important nuggets for medical students and interns are). |
Medscape
**** (4 stars) The best feature of Medscape is that is is absolutely FREE, yet contains a lot of good, up to date information on common (and sometimes, uncommon!) diseases and conditions too. It is a good adjunct to OHCM and OHCS if you don't have BMJ Best Practice subscription. |
Micromedex Drug Information
***** (5 stars) Micromedex is also completely FREE, yet a life-saver when it comes to checking information about drugs - mechanism of action, side effects etc. The only catch is that it uses generic American drug names, so you may need to know translate the names accordingly. Download it now so you know what aminoglutethimide is used for! |
MediBabble
*** (3 stars) MediBabble is a free medical translation software that can be put on loudspeaker! We personally haven't used MediBabble yet, but a day may come when we'll need to use it! It features languages such as Cantonese, Mandarin, French, Spanish, German, Russian and Haitian. Since eye contact and body language are important, it is probably best to still use a professional interpreter if available, or use a dictionary if you can at least converse in a particular language in basic terms. |
Speed Anatomy
*** (3 stars) $0.99 This is a really fun way to learn anatomy. You have to think fast and move fast. So that at the end of the day you can be pretty sure which is the ulnar bone and which is the radius. But the general version is 3 stars because it is after all, a general anatomy quiz, not a detailed one asking where the greater trochanter or where the flexor digitorum profundus lies. Thus the app is mainly for medical students just wanting a entertaining general refresher course. You can get Speed Anatomy Lite for free - we haven't actually tried the full version (we're so cheapskate!). To get more detailed quizzing, you can also get Speed Bones, Speed Muscles or Speed Angiology. |
Prognosis: Your diagnosis
**** (4 stars) Think of this as your end of Med school vivas - minus the examiner, and minus explaining what you would like to do on history and examination. You are provided with the relevant history and examination (just like consultants are by their registrars). 4 investigation choices and 4 management options are provided, to which you can choose yes or no. You would make the choices based on a provisional diagnosis you already have in mind. You are then marked out of 8. Pretty handy for pre-revision, just to get a general idea of vivas! |