Here is an extended review about free and low-price medical apps…
I' ve been searching these over a month… and I' ll give you my aspect of their functionality and clinical use, especially for final year medical students and doctors…
FREE MEDICAL APPS
Medscape-Epocrates
The master of medical apps… the perfect, the king…
Medscape.
If you don' t have Medscape, you have nothing. It's almost perfect and FREE!!!!
You can find almost everything in there… but not EVERYTHING. Epocrates has everything, but it's not as well organized as Medscape. In addition, epocrates needs a paid subscription… no codes means no party!
I think that Medscape is better in general, however, download Epocrates because it offers a great drug guide, where you can find many many drugs, by searching for the main substance or the commercial name, too.
Skyscape
Really useful, too. You can freely download guidelines, calculators, drug index, interaction analyzer, as well as the tool OCM, which is really helpful when you need quick clinical advice without losing time…
And you get often updates too…
Eponyms
A "must-have" for medical students… spots, signs (which are specific and diaforodiagnostic of a certain disease most times), unusual syndromes… everything can be found if it has a NAME of somebody!!!!!! And you are provided with a short explanation… very very useful!
Abbreviations
You can find ALL abbreviations. Although it's the lite version, I think that it's more than full!
Wave medical
It offers a drug guide-toxicology, i.v. drugs compatibility, med calcs and a very accurate differential diagnosis!!!
PEPID
It's almost the same with Wave Medical but with a bit better differential diagnosis, although they seem to be exactly the same but they aren't!!! So download both!
iTriage
It has a brief explanation for many diseases. You can use "symptoms" feature as a differential. You can find pictures, too. Good for quick reference, finding useful relevant images or videos, average cost, advice lines (I think that you'll need internet connection for these last features)
MedWizards
You can download trial versions of 10 days from very good handbooks! (5' minute emergency consult, etc…
. It is very useful for your rotations…
Additionaly, it offers a free one year subscription to one handbook. For example they gave me CC Peds, which is very good and I need it for this year!
Medical info by UMMS
Very good reference but needs internet connection unfortunately… it is both in English and Spanish!
Neurology ipc lite
You can find good pictures of neuroanatomy…
Neuromind
The best Neurology reference.
Eye Handbook
Very good ophthalmology database… with atlases, symptoms, diseases, equipment, treatment… differential doesn't work…
Sports Injury Clinic
A good consult for free sports medicine advisor! It can be easily read by somebody who hates orthopedics (ME!!)!!!
Visual Dermatology
It offers a short-term clinical trial and a one-year (I'm not sure) trial for drug-induced dermatological eruptions (common and useful).
CCO Oncology inPractice/CCo HIV inPractice
Very good but REALLY HEAVY for my iphone, so I erased it!
Redi Reader
You can download guidelines from IDSA and other societies. The disadvantage… you cannot manage the files, delete for example something you may not need.
iRadiology
Very very good Radiology!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Calculators
Epocrates: cholesterol, BMI, GFR, CardioMath
Med Calc
And the best…
Qx Calculate
Immunization, Growth Charts
But only lite versions………….
CMEs
Open CME Cardiology and MedPage Today, as well as Medical Radio (if you don't speak good "medical English", it will be very helpful as "listening task"!!!)
Student BMJ
You can find very good articles, really educative… if you can trust somebody else's knowledge
ABTS Questions
Free questions for Cardiothoracic surgery self-assessment
PAID APPS
Grays Anatomy-HD deluxe edition
With only 0,79 euros the FULL Grays Anatomy with the text!!!! Watch out, you' ll find many grays anatomy, but not full and not so cheap. I don't know if it's the best, but I highly recommend it!!!!!!!!
iMurmur
2,39 euros (I'm not sure)
Listen to murmurs you have not listened as a student, or you don't had the time to understand!!! Patients with serious cardiology problems do not have much patience (and I understand them…
Instant ECG
(cheap too
)
The best ECG guide with very good pictures and text
Differential Diagnosis from BMJ
The best best best best differential diagnosis, although a bit expensive (5,99 euros), because it' s accurate, it's from BMJ (so, it's reliable) and also it offers very very good features (differentiating signs/symptoms, differentiating tests, brief history and exam as well as the first "must be done" diagnostic test and the emergency or dangerous possible diagnosis flagged so that you never forget them even if it's uncommon)
I do not recommend
Med Student onExamination, too expensive for what it offers. But I do recommend this DDx!
Radiopaedia
Very good but a bit expensive. The tests and images are close to perfection. It costs 3,99 euros for each part (and it's six parts).
If you are a med student, I recommend downloading the lite versions and use as a main database the iRadiology!
I'm sure all this was helpful!!!!!!!!
Please, I'm searching for codes from Epocrates or anything else serial numbers for good handbooks! I WOULD BE GRATEFUL if anybody could help me! Please send me a private message! Thank you in advance!