Ohio State is the only medical school offering the Apple devices to their students.
According to the press release, the iPod “can provide graphics, which allow students to refer to resources such as high quality images of each organ and nerve in the body. They can review images from multiple angles, access videos of medical treatments or surgical procedures, and request a review quiz at any time. In addition, detailed photographs on portable media players can help patients identify their current medications and immediately obtain a list of all potential drug interactions.”
They plan to outfit the device with a variety of medical applications.
Pretty forward thinking, and a trend that should spread to other schools.
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Sounds like a publicity stunt to me. How is this any different from PDAs? And why would anyone study on an iPod when they most likely have a laptop or desktop available?
Given most students have desktops or laptops, this is a huge plus for these guys. Especially with all their debt, why not be afforded a nice piece of technology?
Now they have great access at the point of care to applications that can help their clinical and diagnostic understanding. This would help sway my decision if it were down to OSU and someone else.
This shows that the school is tech-ready and willing to outfit their students. Yeah, it’s a publicity stunt… a good one at that.
Yeah this is a publicity stunt… a great one at that.
This would definitely sway my decision if it were between OSU and another school. It shows me that OSU is tech-ready and willing to outfit their students with important tools to assist in point of care, clinical and diagnostic decisions.
Good for you OSU… and this comes from an OSU football hater… haha
Well Ben, you obviously don’t have an iPod Touch or iPhone, do you?
Actually Georgetown University provides an iTouch or iPhone for every second year to use as third years on the wards. This is their first year doing this.
The iPhone/iPod Touch are totally the way to go for medical education. As a student who misplaced his school-issued PDA sometime at the beginning of clerkship and replaced it with an iPod Touch, I can’t believe how much better these devices are. There’s an absolute boom in programming so there’s tons of good software available, patients love them, and it’s a great way to impress old surgeons who marvel at the pretty pictures in the Netter’s Flashcards.
iPhones provide an alternate, practical, multiuse channel for elearning in medical sciences.I have always been a big fan of using phones for medical education. I am sure it shall spread in India soon.
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