Assalamualaikum wrt.
Life in medical school can be quite challenging sometimes,
especially when it comes to studying. No one can deny the fact that medical
school is hard, especially when there are tonnes of information need to be
crammed into our brain, and as normal as we are, we can’t remember everything.
Fortunately, as advanced as we are now as medical students with
smartphones and all, there are these things called “apps” that can ease us in
studying.
So here are few suggestions of free apps from Android and Apple
that may help students to access information quicker and help in studies. Plus,
not only for students, these things even help medical professionals too,
especially during housemanship!
So in non-chronological order, feel free to check the
suggestions below!
1) Quick Lab Reference
Why to love: Useful for quick medical reference
This app provides quick
look at the up-to-date information on the most commonly used clinical
laboratory values and other useful relevant information such as lab data in
Microbiology, Physiology/Pathophysiology, Toxicology and etc.
2) Medscape
Why to love: Provide dosage, good for differential diagnosis.
Medscape is the leading
medical resource most used by physicians, medical students, nurses and other
healthcare professionals for clinical information. This app features medical
news, drugs prescriptions and interaction checker, diseases, condition and
procedures as well as sections that include pathophysiology, epidemiology,
differential diagnoses, workup, treatment, medication options and more.
3) Epocrates
Why to love: Quite similar with Medscape.
4) Standard Dictation
Why to love: Gives essential points to present and clerk cases.
Standard medical dictations for medical students and
residents. Includes standard texts for histories, physicals, counseling, and
procedures.
5) My Blue Book
Why to love: A must download for Malaysian professionals. It
gives drugs formulation by MOH and KKM, and provides types of drugs we used in
government hospital.
This app is not the
official application of MOH Drug Formulary, and it was developed with intention
to help medical students and medical professions in Malaysia to achieve better
health care and provide convenient as a quick reference tool during their
study/work. This app only available to android user in Malaysia only.
6) Medimonics
Why to love: Help us to remember medical facts easily by using
mnemonics.
A database of more than
1500 medical mnemonics! With the help of this huge database, remember tough
medical facts on your fingertips as rhymes, acronyms and other memory tricks.
Includes mnemonics related to multiple disciplines.
7) Qx Calculate
Why to love: Virtual “calculator” to check prognosis,
mortality, risk stratification etc. A must download!
An essential tool in
general practice, internal medicine, cardiology, surgery, obstetrics,
nephrology, hematology, orthopedics, pediatrics, gastroenterology, neurology,
respirology and more. It focuses on highliting tools which are useful in
clinical practice and serve to impact diagnosis, treatment or determining
prognosis. It helps to make decision.
8) MediCalc
Why to love: Similar with Qx Calculate, calculate medical
formula.
9) Eponyms
Why to love: Quick look up for meaning of any medical eponyms.
Eponyms brings a short
description of more than 1700 common medical eponyms to your Android device. A
perfect tool to quickly look up the meaning of any eponym.
10) Medwhat
Why to love: It is like google/wikipedia but specific for
medicine, requires internet to use
Official MedWhat App for
Android. MedWhat is a health and medicine search engine providing instant
health and medical answers.Smarter than a typical search engine, MedWhat
understands what you want to know and returns exactly what you are after with a
direct response. MedWhat uses the web’s existing quality health and medical
content such as the National Institute of Health and transforms it into
knowledge that you can understand. No more endless web searches!
11) Prognosis
Why to love: Games for differential diagnosis and management.
It has prognostic games for STD, diabetes and cardiology.
Want to get the gist of a clinical case
study in 2-3 minutes? Try Prognosis : Your Diagnosis - The first and only free
Android game that lets you investigate, deduce and diagnose complex clinical
cases within minutes with our fun, interactive cartoon-style narrative.
Prognosis is specially designed for Doctors, Medical students and Nurses and
each case helps to learn or recall two or three key clinical points that can be
applied in your practice.
So there you have it, few apps that can solve and aids you in
studying medicine. Hopefully by the helps of these apps, it may improve your
studies and help to make your medical school life less difficult as it may
seem.
On the last note, happy studying!
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