Mobile Device Resources
The University of Wisconsin School Of Medicine and Public Health in Madison recommends that students in the MD Program acquire a mobile device sometime during their second year.
Many hospital residents and practicing physicians use mobile devices for class schedules, patient care information and for data management and reference.
Below is a list of apps and resources. Some will be an important part of your clinical years and used frequently, while others will be used for reference, calculators, schedules or other tasks.
Free Apps for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch and Palm
Recommended Apps
Epocrates Rx (iPhone/iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Palm, Android, Windows Mobile)
Free mobile drug and formulary reference.
Epocrates Essentials (iPhone/iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Palm, Android, Windows Mobile) Subscription available to medical students*
Integrated drug, disease and diagnostic suite for mobile devices.
Essential Evidence Plus (online, subscription available to Health Science students) **
A powerful electronic resource packed with all of the medical evidence you need to make critical patient care decisions. Essential Evidence Plus features must-have content, tools, calculators and daily e-mail alerts for clinicians who deliver first-contact care.
MicroMedex (online) and Thomson Clinical Xpert (Palm)
Subscription available to health sciences students ** Evidence-based decision support for your mobile device:
- Disease information
- Laboratory test information
- Drugs
- Interactions
- Alternative medicine
- Toxicology
- News and alerts
- Convenient calculator
* The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has arranged for all medical students to get new one-year subscription or extension to Epocrates Essentials and Epocrates Medical Dictionary.
** Provided to health sciences students by Ebling Library, UW School of Medicine and Public Health and the Department of Family Medicine.
Free Apps for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch and Palm
These are not required, although students may find them useful as reference tools.
ABG (iPhone/iPad/iTouch, Palm)
Three calculators include: 1) Analyze arterial blood gasses; 2) Output a recommended FIO2, given a determined pO2, FIO2 and a desired pO2; 3) Perform hemodynamic calculations utilizing the Fick Principle.
ACC Pocket Guidelines (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
Reference Tools from the American College of Cardiology Foundation
ABG Pro (Palm)
Arterial Blood Gases Pro is a program that will completely analyze arterial blood gases.
AHRQ ePSS (Android, BlackBerry, iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch, Palm, Windows)
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations. Includes search and browse functionality. Designed and developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Breastfeed (iPhone, Palm, BlackBerry)
Breastfeed is an informational reference on multiple aspects of breastfeeding from Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition.
Cardio Calc (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
Helpful tool to manage patients with cardiovascular disease or hyperlipidemia.
Diagnosaurus (Palm, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, iPhone/iPod Touch)
McGraw-Hill's Diagnosaurus 2.0 is used by tens of thousands of students, physicians and health professionals.
Eponyms (Palm)
Eponyms is a short description of 1,600 common and obscure medical eponyms (for example, Rovsing's sign or Virchow's node) with descriptions.
Eponyms (iPhone and iPod Touch)
For students. Eponyms is a short description of 1,600 common and obscure medical eponyms (e.g., Rovsing's sign, Virchow's node) with descriptions.
HeartBeat (Palm)
With this program you can measure your heart rate.
HeartBeat (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
With this program you can measure your heart rate.
Herbal Zone (Palm)
Decision support for widely used herbs.
ICD9 Consult Lite (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch Lite)
Complete ICD9-CM codes on your mobile device. Includes search and browse functionality, and ability to upgrade to 2011 codes.
MedCalc (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
A free medical calculator that gives you easy access to complicated medical formulas and scores.
Medscape (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch, Android, BlackBerry)
Popular, comprehensive app from WebMD
MedRules (Palm)
MedRules is an award-winning application featuring useful clinical prediction rules taken from the medical literature.
Medical Mnemonics (Palm)
A searchable database of medical mnemonics designed to assist students in remembering medical information.
PalmEKG (Palm)
PalmEKG is an Arrhythmia Field Guide for Your Palm device.
Pregnancy Kick Counter (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
Track your baby's kicking activity.
PregWheel (Palm)
PregWheel is a simple medical utility program for use in obstetrics.
PSI (Palm)
Pneumonia Severity Index Calculator: An interactive tool for the Pneumonia Severity Index from the Assessment of the Variation and Outcomes of Pneumonia.
Shots (app for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch - online only for other devices)
Shots is a quick reference guide to the Childhood Immunization Schedule, a collaboration of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the Adult Immunization Schedule, recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Details on each vaccine are available by clicking on the vaccine names.
Skyscape (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm)
Free resources:
- RxDrugs - drug dosing info w/calcs
- Outlines in Clinical Med. - evidence-based disease and symptom info
- Archimedes - medical calculator and decision tool.
- MedAlert - keep up to date on drugs, summaries, trials and more.
- Also available are pay apps through Skyscape, including Harrison's Manual Of Medicine, Stedmans's Medical Dictionary, Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide, 5 Min.- Emergency Medical Consult, etc...)
STAT ICD-9 Lite (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
Another ICD-9 code reference
WebMD Mobile (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
Features a symptom checker, drug and treatment info and a first aid section.
Pay Apps
Prices listed are approximate and may change over time.
Breastfeeding ($0.99) (iPhone and iPod Touch)
For nursing mothers, serves to remember from which breast the baby last drank.
DoctorCalc (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
Medical apps
Medical iPhone (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
Medical Apps
Modality Apps (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
(Board Review Flash Cards, Recalls, Netter's, Zollinger's, USMLE, and more)
PubSearch ($.99) and PubSearch Plus ($4.99) (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
A simple, efficient user interface with fast access to the PubMed database
Additional Resources
Collective Med (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android, Palm, Windows)
The premier source for medical PDA software on the Internet. Select from hundreds of Palm and Windows Mobile medical software titles.
PDA MediSoft (Android, BlackBerry, Palm, Windows)
Medical and health software downloads for Palm, Symbian, Windows Mobile (Pocket PC), (Smartphones) and BlackBerry (RIM).
Software Advice - Medical Software (general)
Medical Software Advice is a free online resource that helps physicians find mobile device software for their practices.
WiscVPN (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)
Installation and troubleshooting from DoIT. Running this VPN client will allow you to access resources as if on a UW-Madison Internet connection.