computer software/applications for med school

[MedicalBeast]

Hi

I'll be starting MS1 this year and buying a new laptop (PC, cant stand macs). I was wondering if there are any medical applications/software that I should purchase besides Microsoft Office?

I've got a good discount through my college at the moment so I would like to use that before it runs out. 🙂

Thanks!

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[shadowfox87]

Good choice with the PC 🙂. Adobe Acrobat Professional if you don't already have it. It allows you to highlight, add comments, and overall edit your pdfs. You need the Stedman's dictionary cd so you can add that to your ms word. It makes life a lot easier when ms word can understand medicine.

There's not much else than the standard. There's a lot of customization you can do with word, auto-correct. When you go through med school, you'll have many acronyms, short-hand stuff such as the up arrow, down-arrow, subscripts, superscripts. You want to be able to just type this stuff and move on without having to find symbols in word.

I didn't use any other special software, it's mostly e-books for the rest. That's it.

 

[MedicalBeast]

thanks for the reply, shadowfox87

 

[da8s0859q]

Hi

I'll be starting MS1 this year and buying a new laptop (PC, cant stand macs). I was wondering if there are any medical applications/software that I should purchase besides Microsoft Office?

I've got a good discount through my college at the moment so I would like to use that before it runs out!

Thanks!

There really isn't anything specific I'd jump on. There may be software required by your school for secure testing on your computer and that sort of thing, but you won't be paying for that / you'll deal with that when you get there. I'd say just grab copies of whatever you think you might want or use later.

Oh, and there's a free medical dictionary here if you'd like to use that with Word if you're a big Word notetaker. Have not used it much and don't know how complete it is, but it might save you a red squiggly line headache.

(although I do have to say... I love Linux/OSX/Windows all for different reasons, but OSX's Preview lets you highlight, annotate, and make minor edits to PDFs -- and it's a native application. That's nice to have.)

 

[nlax30]

VLC (video LAN client) for playing video/audio lectures. A free media player that's lightweight, can play just about any popular format and let's you watch at any speed, like 2x.

 

[MedicalBeast]

Oh, and there's a free medical dictionary here if you'd like to use that with Word if you're a big Word notetaker. Have not used it much and don't know how complete it is, but it might save you a red squiggly line headache.

(although I do have to say... I love Linux/OSX/Windows all for different reasons, but OSX's Preview lets you highlight, annotate, and make minor edits to PDFs -- and it's a native application. That's nice to have.)

thanks for the link to the free word dictionary. 🙂 i have used all linux/osx/windows and i am just much more productive on windows than on anything else so thats my reason for sticking to it.

VLC (video LAN client) for playing video/audio lectures. A free media player that's lightweight, can play just about any popular format and let's you watch at any speed, like 2x.

do you know if i can access my university's recorded lectures (Mediasite) through VLC? that would be great.

 

[nlax30]

thanks for the link to the free word dictionary. 🙂 i have used all linux/osx/windows and i am just much more productive on windows than on anything else so thats my reason for sticking to it.



do you know if i can access my university's recorded lectures (Mediasite) through VLC? that would be great.

No idea. VLC can open an Internet streaming video link so it depends on your school, how they're streaming (via flash or embedded video) and if you can get an actual link for the video to put into vlc.

 

[ArcGurren]

Make sure to have access to lots of porn.

In all seriousness, VLC is good for 2x/3x speed vids, also if you're the kind of person who loves taking notes on the computer, the Microsoft Onenote program is good.

 

[cbrons]

Good choice with the PC 🙂. Adobe Acrobat Professional if you don't already have it. It allows you to highlight, add comments, and overall edit your pdfs. You need the Stedman's dictionary cd so you can add that to your ms word. It makes life a lot easier when ms word can understand medicine.

There's not much else than the standard. There's a lot of customization you can do with word, auto-correct. When you go through med school, you'll have many acronyms, short-hand stuff such as the up arrow, down-arrow, subscripts, superscripts. You want to be able to just type this stuff and move on without having to find symbols in word.

I didn't use any other special software, it's mostly e-books for the rest. That's it.

Do you have a link to the CD product in question? The Steadman's site has so many different products, I don't know which dictionary to buy that has a CD that I can somehow "download" to word (how do you do that, anyway?)