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1)PalmDoc.net has a great review on an app to help you train for performing lumbar punctures. The last app we reviewed, Procedures Consult-Internal Medicine, also has an excellent example of how to perform lumbar punctures. But the beauty of the Lumbar Puncture app is it’s only $1.99, as compared to the $40 for Procedures Consult. Procedures Consult consult packs 25 different procedures, so if you just need something for Lumbar Punctures, check out the LP Procedures app instead.

2) Merck Manual just released another iPhone app called Home Edition & Procedures, and it’s been getting some buzz on the internet. The app is supposed to provide quick and easy medical knowledge for patients. A CNET author goes far enough to say it will help save on co-pays and "countless" visits to the doctor, we’re not sure if we’d go that far. We’re gonna try to get a copy of the app for a review. Here is the CNET article. Melodika.net has a writeup on this app as well.

Everyone in the medical field has heard the phrase, “See one, Do one, Teach one”. When you’re a budding medical student and intern, you’re taught to watch a procedure being done at least once, then to perform the procedure under supervision, and then after performing the procedure successfully, teach one.

The Procedures Consult:Internal Medicine App aims to help improve the success of this learning process. This $40 app packs 25 Internal Medicine procedures explained in detail through text, pictures, and videos. The app itself takes up a staggering 462 megabytes of space on your iPhone or iPod Touch. For that much space allocation one would think the app better be good. After using this app over the past week and seeing the responses from other medical students, interns, and residents, I can assure you, it’s better than good.  This app is going to be making our soon to be released Top 10 list of Medical Apps for Residents.  This is an extensive review of an app that is well deserving of the attention.

To our readers-

1) Just wanted everyone to know we’re working with the theiphoneappreview site to bring some of our older content to a bigger audience. They will be re-posting some of our older posts, if you click on over to their site you’ll see what I mean. We encourage our readers to check out their site for all your non-medically related app reviews/news. They have some great reviews and they periodically give away promo codes for apps on their site as well.

2) Tomorrow we’re coming out with our review of Modality’s Procedure Consult: Internal Medicine App (iTunes link). We’re really excited about the app and when I’ve let colleagues play around with it and they have had some interesting responses. It’s generating the same type of buzz that came with the Blausen Human Atlas App. Check back here tomorrow to see what the hype is all about.

3) The wrong batch of pictures got uploaded in our last review, for iAnatomy, the issue has been fixed. There is an explanation of the oversight mentioned as an addendum to the review. Thanks to our readers for catching that!

-iMedical Apps Team

There are some price drops happening on some of the medical apps made by Modality. The drops are on some of their "study apps". The apps included are all the Pre-Test versions, First Aid Q&A for USMLE Step 1, Lange Q&A: USMLE Step 3 and USMLE Step 2 CK. The prices of these apps are dropping 25% until October 31st. My assumption is they’re doing this because we’re in the midst of board studying season. We’re actually reviewing another Modality app right now, Procedures Consult: Internal Medicine(iTunes link). Look for the review in the next few days, so far we’ve had a lot of fun using it. Also, we plan on reviewing some of these Modality apps before the month is over, so be on the lookout for those reviews.

Price Drops: (iTunes links)

All the Pre-Tests: Now $22.99

Lange Q&A: USMLE Step 2 CK ($33.99), USMLE Step 3 ($33.99)

First Aid Q&A for USMLE Step 1: Now ($33.99)

In the personal library of many physicians, there is at least one hard bound collection of beautifully hand drawn color illustrations by Frank Netter MD (1906-1991). These drawings were the work of an immensely gifted graphic artist who, by stripping away every unimportant detail, made human anatomy even more vivid and more beautiful. Frank Netter was also a physician with deep appreciation for the varieties and causes of human diseases. Sometimes, the first image that comes to mind when thinking of a disease is the drawing in a Netter book.

Now, many of those drawings have been assembled and annotated for a series of four medical iPhone applications by Modality. As an orthopedic surgeon, I immediately purchased the musculoskeletal edition($29.99). The other applications offered by Modality are geared toward general anatomy, head & neck anatomy, and neuroanatomy.  This review will discuss how this medical application can be useful for not only clinicians, but medical students.