iPads in Residency - how do you use them?

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Hey All!

I'm a second year at Brown EM and we are trying to figure out if it would be worth while to get each resident an ipad. Do any of your programs provide ipads to its residents or do any of you use your personal ipad for work/residency? If so, how do you use them and what apps do find particularly helpful.

Thanks!

Jen
 
JRuskBrownEM said:
Hey All!

I'm a second year at Brown EM and we are trying to figure out if it would be worth while to get each resident an ipad. Do any of your programs provide ipads to its residents or do any of you use your personal ipad for work/residency? If so, how do you use them and what apps do find particularly helpful.

Thanks!

Jen
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One place I interviewed at gave them out to everyone and gave them digital copies of all their books. The residents would just bring the ipads along to MR or conference instead of lugging a book around.
 
In a word, no. I don't approve of them arbitrarily choosing which device they want to buy. Sure, if you want to give the residents the option and let them choose one, then that's fine. Too often students are forced to buy some lackluster device "because it's what the leaders want."

Otherwise, I would rather read something on a kindle/nook than an iOS/Android device. After that, I would rather have any one of those than the actual book.
 
How about iPads for attendings for looking at medical records, RxList, etc?
 
tima said:
How about iPads for attendings for looking at medical records, RxList, etc?
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I have heard of places that do this. I think UCSF Fresno?
 
Our program gave the PGY-1 iPads this year. Most of them seem to use them, but I don't think they received digital copies of textbooks. I own an iPad 1, and by far the most useful thing it serves is a PDF reader. I have all my medical journals and a few textbooks in one spot. GoodReader is the best program for this. You can mark up the PDF in myriad ways.
 
I don't use mine to look at medical records, although I would love that capability. I'd also love the capability to review ultrasounds performed in our electronic database. I have a feeling that might be somewhere down the future.

I use mine for a) pdfs and writing b) I found it very useful for teaching. I used it the other week to teach a small group seminar that didn't have a projector/screen . Keynote is awesome. Also now that they have ibooks author, I think a bunch of people are going to use it for instruction manuals and such for the residents.

For the pdf reading alone, I think it'd be useful except that there are other good devices out there that are much cheaper. Medical textbooks and interactive medical sites haven't become advanced enough for ipad use. There's other cool apps like the anatomy ones which would also be good for learning and teaching, but who wants to spend $20.00 for an app?
 
Definitely curious about this thread.

I'm a current MS4 and I like new toys. Was thinking for a while that a tablet of some variety would make a nice graduation gift. I'm more of an android fan when it comes to mobile OS.

The current debate I'm having right now is that my laptop is also due for an upgrade. Having played around recently with the Macbook Airs, I'm thinking that's the direction I'm leaning. As far as size and portability, they're pretty much on par with an iPad and quite a bit more functional. The nice thing about the iPad is their usage as a PDF reader that does not require opening up a clamshell with a keyboard.

As an EM resident, I don't think there is a ton of need for a tablet or computer. I rotated on surgery last year and all the residents had iPads. I thought that was useful because they have a decent amount of down time where they are reading articles. A typical EM shift does not give a lot of free time for reading. Hence, why I think having a new laptop may be more practical for at home use.

Just thinking out loud...
 
Actually saw some pretty innovative stuff with tablets on the interview trail this year.

One of the newer programs was utilizing them to do feedback on their ultrasounds along with recorded lectures (in case you didn't make it in on Thurs morn), all books on pdf/eBook format, and asynchronous learning modules all via a tablet. Very nice setup. Also, a tablet is at least half the cost of a MacBook air and much lighter than any other true laptop.

I really like what I saw and very useful. Also, a nice perk as I wont have to buy my own tablet/laptop entering residency. Now getting into android vs iOS gets a little hairier, but usually goes to the one people are most comfortable with or does what they want.
 
You could use the ipad to shield yourself from the spit balls that will be launched at you during conference.
 
Anyone currently using a tablet for their primary textbook source?

I like to write notes and underline random stuff.
How easy is it to do this on an iPad? and does the formatting with graphs etc look okay.

I'd love to not have to lug around any books and still have everything with me.
 
as a morale booster i will buy 5 itunes cards a week. i skype with the ED head nurse to keep track on how all 2nd yr Emerg registrars and interns are doing. i will pick:
most improved all round, most improved diagnostically, most improved with people skills etc..they can purchuse what they like as long as it will help them with their studies in medicine or making a diagnosis

BTW i haven't changed it yet but i'm now an attending! i find that by limiting what they can purchuse but still rewarding them while they are learning i will turn out the best doctors ever!....something i learnt growing up.
 
BushDoc20 said:
as a morale booster i will buy 5 itunes cards a week. i skype with the ED head nurse to keep track on how all 2nd yr Emerg registrars and interns are doing. i will pick:
most improved all round, most improved diagnostically, most improved with people skills etc..they can purchuse what they like as long as it will help them with their studies in medicine or making a diagnosis

BTW i haven't changed it yet but i'm now an attending! i find that by limiting what they can purchuse but still rewarding them while they are learning i will turn out the best doctors ever!....something i learnt growing up.
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You said this in January: "i'm currently studying in trauma surgery as an add-on to my EM ...i've got a year to go..."

How did you suddenly become an attending overnight?

Your post are some of the most intriguing to me on SDN...
 
Aussie medicine is more like the British model. Registrars, consultants, etc.
 
Snelgrave said:
Our program gave the PGY-1 iPads this year. Most of them seem to use them, but I don't think they received digital copies of textbooks. I own an iPad 1, and by far the most useful thing it serves is a PDF reader. I have all my medical journals and a few textbooks in one spot. GoodReader is the best program for this. You can mark up the PDF in myriad ways.
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Papers2 is also great for storing and organizing journal articles. They just updated it so that you can now highlight and add notes. Still getting used to reading a screen over paper, but its a great app.
 
Our residency gets everyone iPads, I haven't found them terribly useful. Two MAJOR problems, I cannot get PACS (rads images) on mine, AND I cannot get care connection (our EMR). Therefore charting and showing people their pictures is useless.

I keep all my papers on an app called "papers", annotate freely and use when I'm on rounds in the unit, or in the room in case I want to reference something with a consultant etc. All my PDF's are organized by author/content and journal so if i remember NEJM 2009, or marik et al or something I can find it quickly as another poster pointed out I don't have tons of free time to find said articles while on a shift.
 
Dr.McNinja said:
Aussie medicine is more like the British model. Registrars, consultants, etc.
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Billabongs, Dijeridoos, Tazmanian Devils... you get the idea.

I just had the privilege of meeting a bunch of Aussie med students not long ago. Great fellas; but it took me the first three hours to understand a syllable of what they were saying.
 
EM_Rebuilder said:
You said this in January: "i'm currently studying in trauma surgery as an add-on to my EM ...i've got a year to go..."

How did you suddenly become an attending overnight?

Your post are some of the most intriguing to me on SDN...
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yeah i get that,but the higher ups had a meeting....you don't mess with the big bosses and it basically came down to the fact i'm hardly at the hospital, i'm studying long distance and i'd be the only attending out in the field doing what i do and they love it...


Rustedfox: next time you meet an aussie doc ask them to speak slowly...we're not insulted, its the americans that get insulted from my experience
 
BushDoc20 said:
yeah i get that,but the higher ups had a meeting....you don't mess with the big bosses and it basically came down to the fact i'm hardly at the hospital, i'm studying long distance and i'd be the only attending out in the field doing what i do and they love it...


Rustedfox: next time you meet an aussie doc ask them to speak slowly...we're not insulted, its the americans that get insulted from my experience
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Why don't you people just speak proper English?
 
I've never had a problem with their lack of proper English.
But then again, Australia is Britain's Redneck Riviera. And since I grew up in the south, I guess I just understand the lingo.

Although they do have some colloquialisms that you have to hear a few times to get. Context doesn't help.

At least it isn't Cockney rhyming slang.
 
RustedFox said:
Ha Ha. Nahh, I'm exaggerating. It didn't help that we were all pretty well boozed up.

Now, about these "drop bears"... just how big CAN they get ?
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pretty damn big!!! and the two things they love the most is vegemite and peanut paste!

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:laugh::meanie::meanie:😀
 
Hey: real quickly... how do you embed an image file in a post. I tried to do this in another thread not long ago, but it showed up as an 'attachment', thus effectively killing the joke.
 
TeamZissou said:
You're not the only one. I need to figure this out too.
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Does the insert image link not work for you? If you paste the URL of the image into your post, that's all you'll get. You need the IMG tags to make it work right.

You also need to link to the actual image URL, not the URL of the page it's on. I've gotten fooled by that one before.
 
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