App Review

Residency Rater helps family medicine-bound medical students choose a residency

Aug 18, 2010 by
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Residency Rater is a neat app for students to organize and expand their thoughts about family medicine residency programs.

Dragon releases Medical Mobile Search – a voice dictation search tool free for a limited time

Aug 15, 2010 by
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Nuance, the makers of the popular desktop dictation software, Dragon Medical Dictation, have just released their first mobile medical app – Dragon Medical Mobile Search. The app allows clinicians to search online medical content on their iPhone using their voice.

VisualDx Mobile for the iPad is now in the app store [iPad App Review]

Aug 12, 2010 by
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VisualDx Mobile for the iPad provides a rich database of high quality dermatological images easily searchable by clinical and visual features.

Hematology Miniatlas encourages patient education [iPhone App Review]

Aug 12, 2010 by
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Hematology Miniatlas is a relatively simple application that could be used by a hematologist for patient education.

How the Documents To Go app can be used in medicine [iPhone]

Aug 03, 2010 by
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How the Documents To Go app, for the iPhone and iPad, can be used in medicine.

Medicine Recall app is med student’s best friend when getting pimped on the hospital wards [Android Review]

Aug 02, 2010 by
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In depth review of an android medical app that helps med students answer tough questions on the wards.

USMLE Step 2 Secrets app allows for board studying in mobile form [Android app review]

Jul 29, 2010 by
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The USMLE Step 2 secrets textbook is now in mobile form via Skyscape. This review covers how this Android medical application can help you study for boards.

Archimedes 360 is a medical calculator that can answer the most common or the most obscure questions [Android app review]

Jul 28, 2010 by
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While some calculators focus on a specific subset of medicine, the Archimedes Android app aims to be an all inclusive calculator, with over 200 equations (review).

Frog Dissection lets you see the insides of a frog while keeping your iPad clean

Jul 27, 2010 by
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Frog dissection on the iPad. Is a cadaver dissection next?

New Innovations iOS4 update allows health care professionals to track procedures easier

Jul 22, 2010 by
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New Innovations iOS4 update allows health care professionals to track procedures easier. Especially useful for emergency medicine residents.

Cardiac ultrasound teaching brought to the iPhone – Echocardiography Atlas medical app gets reviewed

Jul 12, 2010 by
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Echocardiography Atlas is an app designed to help your ultrasound reading skills. The app has 250 annotated images and 189 videos – all focusing on various cardiac pathologies.

Results of using Google translate for medical communication on the Android OS

Jul 09, 2010 by
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Whether you’re a medical student, resident, nurse, or physician, you’ve no doubt encountered a language barrier. We test Google translate on the Android OS, and see how it performs in a patient setting.