Mobile Apps for Medical Students
As a healthcare professional, you make clinical decisions on the go — With UpToDate on your mobile device, you get the trusted support you need. An UpToDate mobile device provides anywhere, anytime access to the world’s leading clinical decision support solution.
Registration & Activation Steps:
Access UpToDate by going to www.uptodate.com from any computer connected to your library/hospital or organization’s network.
Click the Register button in the upper right corner of the screen
Complete all fields on the registration form and then click Submit Registration
Make note of your user name and password
Download the UpToDate app in your mobile phone (if Android- Google Play Store, if Apple – App Store) after registration to use seamlessly in your mobile phone or tablet with the registered username and password.
If you already have an UpToDate user name and password from a Personal Subscription or a previous access, simply click the Log In button in the upper right corner of the screen.
Details of Mobile Access
Once registered, you can install the Mobile App on upto two devices.
On your Smartphone or tablet, search for ‘UpToDate’ in your app store and install the free app
Open the UpToDate Mobile App upon completion of download
Log in with your UpToDate username and password
You only need this once - the app remembers your username and password
Cost:
Subscribed by JNMC Library
Note: For help, contact the library
Medscape Mobile contains selected information from WebMD's Medscape and eMedicine online sites. This is most used by physicians, medical students, nurses and other healthcare professional for clinical information which includes:
- Medical news
- Drug reference and interaction checker tools
- Disease and condition information
- Medical calculators
- Drug formulary information
- Continuing medical education courses
Cost: All features are available
free. Log in required only for the first time using the app. New user can
register for a free account.
Format support: iPhone/iPodTouch, iPad and Android
Note: Drug, condition, and procedure reference plus drug interaction checker can be accessed without an internet connection when you select the option to download the clinical reference database.
This popular drug resource is the single most used medical PDA application in order to provide better patient care by delivering the right information, right when it is needed. Health care professionals worldwide use this app to:
- Find providers for consults and referrals in the Provider directory
- Review drug prescribing and safety information for thousands of brand, generic and OTC drugs.
- Check the potentially harmful drugs- drug interactions among up to 30 drugs at a time
- Select national and regional healthcare insurance formularies for drug coverage information.
- Identify pills by imprint code and physical characteristics
- Perform dozens of calculations such as BMI and GFR.
- Access timely medical news and research information
Cost: Free basic version available for all devices. Other versions eg.
Premium versions for Epocrates Essentials, require annual subscription fee.
Format support: Android, iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
This
is a download and local install.
This free application includes Pocket Guide to
Diagnostic test and MEDLINE journals from UCentral platform although there are
some unique resources including The Merck Manual, Professional Edition and
Harrison's Practice - Answers on Demand.
The Merck PTE provides detailed information, state-of-the-art functions and an
appealing presentation. It offers university students, teachers and professors
the opportunity to learn more about the chemical elements – from classification
to elements features to their history of discovery. It contains the following
features:
All relevant details regarding the elements of the periodic table
- New visualizations
- Integrated molar mass calculator
- Simple, concise, intuitive user-interface
- Interactive handling,
- Multilingual support
- An internet content is not required after installation, as all content is available within the app.
Cost: This program is free for
healthcare professionals. Registration required.
Format Support: Available on Android, iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad, Windows phone
MedCalc is a medical calculator popular since the Palm OS days. It is designed for rapid calculation of common equations used in clinical medicine (including anesthesiology, pediatrics, emergency, intensive care and internal medicine). Its features include:
- Arithmetical processing
- Automatic unit conversion
- MULTICALX Panels
- Multiple-unit entries
- Color-coded normal-abnormal outputs
- Normal values (ranges & limits)
- Intuitive user interface – and various other features
Cost: Free
Format support: iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad, Android
‘Read by QxMD' is web feed app that helps clinicians to keep themselves updated with new research in their field. You can search millions of article through PubMed and its own database and can also get full-text.
'Calculate’ is a clinical calculator and decision
support tool for iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry, freely available to the
medical community. Focused on highlighting tools which are actually useful in
clinical practice and serve to impact diagnosis, treatment or determining
prognosis.
Cost: Freely available to medical community
Format Support: Android, iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
This free application provides access to the
interesting topics published on King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Arabic Health
Encyclopedia (KAAHE) website, and keeps the reader updated with the latest
health news. KAAHE materials are prepared in cooperation with leading international
health websites.
Cost: Free
Format Support: Android, iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
The app is an educational tool for medical students and an interactive reference for healthcare professionals and physicians. It provides you with a 3D rotational human anatomy model. Here are its other features:
- 58 high resolution anatomy image
- Over 300 feature points
- 8 overview images of Gray’s anatomy
- Free periodic updates
- Multi-choice quizzes
- Muscle descriptions and more
Note: The full version is available on
subscription basis.
Cost: Free
Format Support: Android, iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
A great app for neurologist, neurosurgeons and medical students, it provides you with basic neuro-anatomy information to the World Health Organization (WHO) Safe Surgey checklist requirements.
- Supported by Surgical Neurology International, the European Association of Neurosurgival Societies (EANS) and Neurosurgic.com
- Contains a 113 scores relevant to neurosurgical practice
- 18 neurosurgical classifications
Format support: Android,
iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
Cost: Free
A very useful app containing more than 200 monographs describing the structure,
purported uses, adverse effects, and drug interactions of various herbs,
botanicals, supplements, and complementary therapies.
Format support: iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
Cost: Free
A perfect free tool to quickly look up the meaning of any eponym. The
simple app performs an equally simple function. It’s a dictionary (derived from
eponyms.net) of 1700+ medical eponyms. The menu is straightforward but you have
to click on a category or the “All Eponyms” option to reveal the search button.
Once you began typing your search the app will auto-populate a list of results.
When you select a result, you’re presented with the definition of the eponym.
Format support: Android,
iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
Cost: Free
Everyone, who is not already an expert in first-aid, should have this app in their phone. It gives good advice for a variety of situations where you could help someone, even perhaps saving their life.
Format
support: iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
Cost: Free
This Medical Resources app is used by more than 2.5
million healthcare professionals to access the medical resources they know and
trust at the point of care. This valuable decision-support tool helps
physicians, nurses, students and other professionals find the right answers,
right away. The free Skyscape app comes loaded with a valuable package of
medical resources, including drug information, medical calculators and clinical
information on over 850 topics.
Format support: Android, iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
Cost: Free
Designed with busy physicians in mind, this free app
presents an engaging series of clinical case scenarios which assess the
decision making skills of the player. This award winning app is a great way for
practicing physicians to develop and maintain their clinical acumen in a
risk-free setting. It is also very useful practice material for medical
students and other healthcare professionals facing their academic and
professional licensure exams.
Format support: Android,
iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
Cost: Free
Speed Anatomy is an addictive game that tests your speed and challenges your knowledge of human anatomy! It is the most fun anatomy quiz out there.
- Contains close to 300 labeled parts from all the main regions of the body.
- Earn points for precision and speed.
- A magnifying glass appears when holding your finger on an image allowing you to achieve more precision and higher scores.
This free app makes life easy for those tackling anatomy for high school, university or even medical school. Practice mode allows you to learn specific regions without doing all the previous levels. Contains 28 levels including an overview of bones, muscles, arteries, veins, respiratory system and digestive system also more detailed levels covering bones, lungs, pharynx, larynx, nasal cavity, oral cavity, dentition, liver, pancreas, brain, auditory system and visual system.
Format support: Android, iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
Cost: Free
A very useful and handy free application to search PubMed database with over 21 million citations for biomedical articles and life science journals. Some of the features of the app include:
- Keyword search with options
- Save search query
- Email citations
- View abstracts
- Link to full article if available
- Post a comment for an article to public
- Write a note to yourself
- View public comments for an article
Format Support: Android, iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
The 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, etc.
Format Support: Android,
iPhone/iPodTouch/iPadmedicine and places them into one easy to use application.
Cost: Free
The app is designed for students in health professions (medical, nursing, allied health) learning to record and interpret medical lab values from Complete Blood Chemistry (CBC), Complete Metabolic Panel (CMP) and Arterial Blood Gas (ABG). You can see illustrations noting the basic parts of lab reports and short-hand figures, videos explaining general steps for interpreting labs, and exercises that present lab results and associated conditions. Be able to see if a lab value is normal, low/high, or critical
Cost:
Freely available
Format support: Android, iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
With this app medical professionals can discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research. Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around the interactive brain structures.
Cost:
Free
Format support: Android, iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad
