Are ipads useful for pathology residency/ fellowship

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Are ipads useful for pathology residency/ fellowship? I have some extra book money that i cannot cash out.
Additionally, what about the asus transformer prime? It is an android tablet and is getting good reviews..and has an MSOffice compatible program preloaded.

Thanks

 

[2121115]

Are ipads useful for pathology residency/ fellowship? I have some extra book money that i cannot cash out.
Additionally, what about the asus transformer prime? It is an android tablet and is getting good reviews..and has an MSOffice compatible program preloaded.

Thanks

No, not useful. But if you can buy one with your book fund and get it cleared then you are winning. Go forth.

 

[mlw03]

Agree, no particular use for path residency or most fellowships. Maybe if there were some IHC apps, but there's other websites that cater to that stuff.

 

[Entgegen]

Man, I wish I could use my book fund for a freakin' tablet. Agree with above...if you can get it cleared, why the hell not?

 

[Deucedano]

Hopkins disagrees
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atlas-of-pancreas-pathology/id474845392?mt=8

I have an iPad and I think it is very useful for pdf books. Hopefully Hopkins makes more apps of different organs/organ systems cause that app is awesome for someone starting out like me.

 

[yaah]

There are likely to be more options for using tablets in the future - textbooks are being electronicized (new word there). There aren't too many other applications yet but they are growing.

 

[Rhabdoid]

There are likely to be more options for using tablets in the future - textbooks are being electronicized (new word there). There aren't too many other applications yet but they are growing.

Digitized sounds pretty good to me.
Anyhow, I have an iPad with tons of path books in PDF and CHM formats. Although I prefer to read paper rather than a screen, having so many books in one little machine rocks, not to mention a much less expensive option.

 

[KCShaw]

I think you could make almost the same arguments for the utility of a tablet (iPad/Android) as you could for a laptop in the setting of residency/fellowship/practice. Heck, I can control my home desktop from my android phone at work, so if you have a good connection a computer and a tablet are essentially one and the same. Of course there are numerous, and growing numbers of, native apps which also can be useful for study or practice. Books are among the more obvious answers, but certainly some texts and many study materials have PDF or other digitized formats. Web access is a biggie, but not an absolute must -- I doubt most training departments have internal wifi access or even reliable cellular coverage. Still, one can use the common "office" or other native apps, look up some things even without internet access, and so on. As with most gadgetry, however, its utility to you will depend on a number of things -- including your willingness and inventiveness in making it work for you.

 

[Autopsy Sweet]

Are ipads useful for pathology residency/ fellowship? I have some extra book money that i cannot cash out.
Additionally, what about the asus transformer prime? It is an android tablet and is getting good reviews..and has an MSOffice compatible program preloaded.

Thanks

I have found my iPad to be useful, especially in studying for the boards. I use it most to look at and annotate PDFs of review courses (using GoodReader) while listening to the audio lecture (mp3). I also have a laptop (which I purchased this year with book money), but I just find the iPad to be so much more portable and it weighs a lot less! We have ample wi-fi and 3G coverage in our hospital, so the utility in that aspect is limitless.

 

[MirkoCrocop]

I have found my iPad to be useful, especially in studying for the boards. I use it most to look at and annotate PDFs of review courses (using GoodReader) while listening to the audio lecture (mp3). I also have a laptop (which I purchased this year with book money), but I just find the iPad to be so much more portable and it weighs a lot less! We have ample wi-fi and 3G coverage in our hospital, so the utility in that aspect is limitless.

Did the exact same thing

Does anyone know of a program that reads powerpoints well? It's annoygin converting everything into PDFs