Emergency Medicine is where the #FOAMed movement started. Free Open Access to Medical Education. When you search on twitter for #FOAMed you get access to several clinical pearls and blogs where academic physicians are writing about not only emergency medicine, but other medical specialties. I’ll mention key websites you should…
Unlike most of the other medical specialties, Obstetrics and Gynecology has a lack of mobile tools available for their specialty. Whether this is because there is a lack of demand for them or the specialty has not embraced mobile fully is not relevant for this article. But there are key…
Learning how to interpret chest x-rays when you start your clinical rotations is essential. Most medical students learn “on the job” in a haphazard way. Often times it’s by seeing only abnormal x-ray films, and going through them with an intern. A more systematic method of learning such a critical…
When you start your clinical rotations, there’s already a huge wealth of baseline knowledge you’re trying to learn. However, it’s important to start developing habits that will enable you to stay up to date with current literature. Often times you are expected to present journal articles to your residents and…
Key Hashtags: #foamed (Free open access Meducation) #hcsm (healthcare communication and social media) #hitsm – Healthcare IT Social Media #doctors20 #meded Who to follow: Osmosis Med – Great pearls for Step 1 and 2, their facebook site is useful to follow as well. Learn the Heart – Great overall medicine…
The following are a list of apps and resources that can be utilized by medical students when studying for step 1. Osmosis Med This app was created by a group of medical students at Johns Hopkins with the goal of approaching question banks in a different way. The app has…
Anatomy apps were some of the first medical related apps introduced when the App Store was rolled out for the iPhone 3G. Due to the rich multimedia that can be displayed on new smartphone operating systems, phones become a great conduit for learning during your Anatomy block. Because of the…
The following are mobile tools that can be utilized to get a better understanding of Pharmacology. Some of these tools can help with Board studying, while other tools are meant for supplementing course work. TRC Pharmacology A free app that is developed by LUMC Leiden (Leiden University Medical Center). LUMC…
The goal of these pathology apps and resources is to help students study for Step 1, as well as supplement the knowledge you learn from the Pathology course . It’s important to realize these apps should only be used as a supplement to the material already presented by Pathology instructors…
There are not a lot of options for Psychiatry apps as the ones available are mainly textbooks that cost in excess of $50 each. But there are some mobile platforms that enables students to learn Psychiatry “on the go” — and for the shelf exam and USMLE. Current Psychiatry A…