There is a plethora of medical apps which
can help medical students in their studies
either as an auxiliary study option or just an
aide memoir. Some of the very good
ones are listed below :
1. MEDSCAPE
This is one medical app that I use and I
personally recommend this app for any
medical student. Now rated as the fastest
growing mobile app, the medscape app come
with features as:
-Medical News:
Read the latest news available across 30+
specialties, covering FDA announcements,
thought leader perspectives, conference news,
important journal articles, plus physician
business news and tips.
- Drug Information and Tools:
Look up adult and pediatric drug dosing
information in seconds, check drug
interactions, access medical calculators, and
get health plan formulary information
to
support you with patient care.
- Disease & Condition Information:
Prep for patients by reviewing clinical
presentation, workup, and treatment
information for 4,400+ diseases and
conditions. Authored and reviewed by
physician experts. See more at http://
www.medscape.com/public/mobileapp/
features
2. Epocrates
This is another great medical app which is
gaining widespread prominence around the
medical world today. With Epocrates, you
can:
• Review drug prescribing and safety
information for thousands of brand, generic,
and OTC drugs
• Check for potentially harmful drug-drug
interactions among up to 30 drugs at a time
• Identify pills by imprint code and physical
characteristics
• Access timely medical news and research
information
• Find providers for consults and referrals in
the Provider Directory
• Select national and regional health care
insurance formularies for drug coverage
information
• Perform dozens of calculations, such as
BMI
and GFR
• New! Coordinate care securely with HIPAA-
compliant text messaging.
3.BMJ
The BMJ Android app is based on the
journal's
weekly print issue, but with added “online
first” articles and extra features, including
embedded video, audio, infographics, links to
archived content, and the ability to bookmark
and add notes.
Download the app from the Google Play
store,
and access all 2014 issues from the BMJ
archive
FOR FREE. Key benefits
-Latest research, “state of the art” and other
clinical reviews, practice articles, news, f
eatures, analysis, and comment (editorials,
personal views, etc)
-Embedded audio, video, and infographics
-Links to related recent content from
thebmj.com archive
-Ability to respond to articles
-Ability to bookmark articles, add notes, and
search
FREE to BMA members.
4. Medical Formulas
Medical Formulas provides an intuitive
access
to the main equations, formulas and scores
used in clinical practice, classified in
different
specialties, that makes it a powerful medical
calculator. Created by developers specialized
in the subject, this free app allows to reduce
the required time to get results in clinical
work. All based on the main scores validated
by the scientific community.
Medical Formulas is intuitive, easy to use and
thoroughly tested. Oriented utility for
physicians, doctors, residents, medical
students and other health professionals.
Medical Formulas includes numerous criteria,
functions and scores of different specialties:
Internal Medicine, Nutrition, Metabolism,
Endocrinology, Medication, Gynecology,
Obstetrics, Cardiology, Pulmonology,
Nephrology, Infectology, Neurology,
Psychiatry, Therapy, Intensive Care,
Emergency, Gastroenterology, Hematology,
Oncology, Hepatology, Orthopedics,
Pediatrics,
Surgery, Toxicology, Trauma.
Among the most used functions it highlights:
- Ideal Body Weight
- Body Mass Index BMI
- Body Surface Area
- Winter’s Formula for Metabolic Acidosis
Compensation
- LDL Calculator
- Anion GAP
- Maintenance Fluids Calculator
- Parkland Formula for Burns
- Pregnancy Due Dates Calculator
- APGAR Score
- Emergency Heart Failure Mortality Risk
Grade
- Corrected QT Interval
See more at Medical Formulas
5. Medicine MCQs for Med School
Students
An essential revision aid for your medical
exams, containing over 1450 multiple choice
questions right at your fingertips. Revise with
tips, tricks and explanations in Practice Mode
or test yourself against the clock in Exam
Mode.
Features:
★ Breakdown of results so you can always
see
where to improve
★ Check how your medical knowledge ranks
against your friends and worldwide with
Google Play Games
★ Star questions for quick review
★ Unlock achievements
★ Check Reference values for blood tests
★ Beautiful modern design that's optimised
for phones & tablets
★ New questions & categories always being
added
Currently 100 free questions with 10 in each
category. New FREE questions are always
being added. More questions are available at
a
rate of £0.65 (~$0.98) per 100 questions.°
Questions are in single best answer (SBA)
format.
Current categories available are*:
- Basic Anatomy
- Biochemistry
- Cell biology
- Clinical Neurology
- Immunobiology
- Infectious Diseases
- Lower Limb
- Neuroscience
- Surface Anatomy
- Thoracic Anatomy
- Upper Limb
°Increase is due to changes in VAT.
*Immunobiology, Infectious Diseases and
Surface Anatomy are not yet complete.
6. Prognosis : Your Diagnosis
Designed with busy physicians in mind,
Prognosis: Your Diagnosis presents an
engaging series of clinical case scenarios
which assess the decision making skills of
the
player.
Each scenario takes only a few minutes to
play, and is accompanied by a comprehensive
yet concise discussion of the diagnostic
reasoning involved, and the key lessons
applicable to day to day practice.
All case scenarios are based on real-life
patients, and have been reviewed by our
editorial panel of 130+ specialist physicians
spanning 30 specialties.
This award winning app is a great way for
practicing physicians to develop and
maintain
their clinical acumen in a risk-free setting.
Prognosis: Your Diagnosis is also useful
practice material for medical students and
other healthcare professionals facing their
academic and professional licensure exams.
A new scenario is added weekly, ready to be
downloaded onto our list of 150+ clinical
cases.
Achievements:
- #1 ranked medical app in the USA
- 'Dr House for Doctors' - Discover Magazine
- “One of the five best apps for doctors’ -
Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSE)
- Best Health App at the World Summit
Awards 2012
User testimonials:
- "Worth a download. In a very short time,
learned a few new things already."
- "A fun way to view cases. Great for medical
students and also nurses - also great for long
time MDs. This is just fun !"
- "As an academic physician this is a great
teaching tool.
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