PDAs

[basementbeastie]

can any of you experienced EM interns out there comment on what PDA programs you have found useful during the past year? thanks.

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[basementbeastie]

anyone......?

 

[southerndoc]

Try this thread: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=115328&highlight=pda

(This has been discussed before.)

In summary: ePocrates pro, 5m Emerg Consult, UpToDate (if you can afford it), medical formula software (like MedCalc 3000), some people recommend PEPID but I've never used it.

 

[basementbeastie]

thanks southern doc...i did a search before posting the original question but nothing useful came up. also, i figured that both PDAs and their programs have been rapidly changing and i wanted some current opinions.

 

[spyderdoc]

Epocrates Pro and 5 Min EM consult are pretty much all one needs to function in the ED. These 2 programs have eliminated any need for me to carry anything other than my Palm at work... No books is the way to go!
MArk

 

[Retinamark]

Best thing I ever did was buy a Pocket PC. There aren't many textbooks for Pocket PC's, but with a textbook on CD, you can cut & paste info into Word documents & make summaries that you can take everywhere in your Pocket PC.
Hopefully it's not too far away, when full textbooks with pictures, will fit into a Pocket PC & they will be fast enough to access the data quickly

 

[Apollyon]

i did a search before posting the original question but nothing useful came up.

Did you search for "PDA" (like southerndoc indicated and searched)?

 

[basementbeastie]

yes, i searched and got a bunch of stuff from the likes of radiology, peds, etc....admittedly this was probably user error!

 

[DrMom]

you can search within a particular forum by using the advanced search.

 

[basementbeastie]

ahhh..did not know that...like i said -> user error (story of my life)

 

[Apollyon]

ahhh..did not know that...like i said -> user error (story of my life)

Hey - that's my line!

 

[basementbeastie]

no problem, i got enough to share