Medical apps

Crasp

I can't find a thread on this, is there one already?



I would like to know specifically what medical apps are the most useful while on the wards, from people who actually use them.

Also, any recommendations for apps that are good for study purposes (flashcards etc.)? The PhysiciansBoardReview apps look good, does anyone have experience with them?


Also, value for money. The OHCM app is €45 :eek: The book it self is about €25!

Nonoperational

BNF and OHCM are all I use really.

Crasp

gpf101 wrote: »

BNF and OHCM are all I use really.

The two I want the most, but that's €80 between them, roughly. I paid for the OHCM book so I refuse to pay double the price for the app too. If anything it should be cheaper than the paper version!

Nonoperational

Agreed. And I prefer the paper version of OCHM too. I like BNF I must say just because it's always there for me so I find myself using it more than I would a book.

I havn't really looked at other apps in a while I must have a look again soon. I found a lot of them were interesting but not very useful in reality.

take everything

Crasp wrote: »

I can't find a thread on this, is there one already?



I would like to know specifically what medical apps are the most useful while on the wards, from people who actually use them.

Also, any recommendations for apps that are good for study purposes (flashcards etc.)? The PhysiciansBoardReview apps look good, does anyone have experience with them?


Also, value for money. The OHCM app is €45 :eek: The book it self is about €25!

Skyscape has an awful lot of stuff like:
Merck manual.
5 minute clinical consult.
BNF.
ABx guides.
INR guides.
CXR interpretation.
ECG interpretation.
etc etc.

But i've found that medical apps/ebooks tend to be exorbitant.

chanste

As a med student I've found that the oxford medical dictionary is incredibly handy as an app. It's much faster to search through than an actual dictionary and one term can instantly link to another if necessary. On top of that you can bookmark what you look up so you can revise them after a while.

I think the OHCM is brilliant but it is unjustly expensive in my view (I think it might be because they let another company make the app)

BNF is great. (Again I think its very expensive - not something I'd be updating as often as I'd like)

Lange pathology flash cards, and Lange pharmacology flash cards are great too.

Merck manual.

Tree

Regarding price differences between print and apps, a lot of publishers have to spend additional money creating the apps. While the content is available to them, the rest of it has to be built, and they like to add features so they can give "added value" to customers.

It's a pita tbh, people complain that the cost of an e-book is the same or more than the equivalent book, but there's nothing the bookseller can do about it.

Vorsprung

I'm cheap so I'm not arsed getting expensive ones.

I do have something called MedCalc which has got everything from your ABCD2 score calculator (might as well be differentiation 8 hours into a 13 hours shift as happened earlier) to your Well's Scores, and then loads of random stuff which can sometimes come in handy.

Also have an app for keeping a record of procedure I've done and patients I've seen (only UR numbers, not names). The old 20 stickers on my scrubs persists despite spending a whopping $1.69 on it.

micd

I'd recommend the Medscape app.

Free, available for multiple platforms (iOS BB Android etc) and offers a constantly updated Drug/Disease/RxInteraction resource. Slightly biased towards US in approach but useful nonetheless - even moreso than OHCM8 in some cases! Think you need to register on the native Medscape site first before you can use the app in full.

That said, if you're really mad to get the OHCM8 (and others) and you've got yourself a jailbroken iPhone, I'm sure 'Installous' will help