Pocket PC Apps for 3rd Year Rotations

[J-Mo]

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Does anyone have any recommendations on PDA applications that are helpful for each rotation (shelf exams, pimping, general knowledge about procedures, labs, etc.)? Are there any general physical diagnosis tools on the PDA like Maxwells, etc.?

Family Medicine -

Internal Medicine -

Surgery -

OB-GYN - OB Wheel

Psych -

Peds -

General - Stedmans, 5MCC, Epocrates, Diagonosaurus

 

[bentz]

I want to know too 😕

 

[wook]

If you have a 1GB memory card, you can download UpToDate which includes a drug database. I'm using it constantly during my rotations.

You could also look at FirstConsult as well.

Wook

 

[benjiboy]

my favorites for third year have been
1) 5 minute clinical consult
2) Epocrates Rx Pro (includes ID section)
3) Diagnosaurus (free)
4) Merck Medicus pocket guide to diagnostic tests (free)
5) Taber's Medical Dictionary
6) Eponyms (free)

 

[Mumpu]

Free epocrates, free eponyms, free medcalc, free Hopkins Abx Guide, free medrules, plus $10 for Tarascon's Critical Care book in your pocket. Free shots/growth curves program for peds.

 

[greets fr. nyc]

use nothing....

ok,
1) maybe a good medical dictionary
2) epocrates is quite good (free. and the money version is even better)
3) diagnosaurus (free: ddx listing)
other stuff is just not indepth enough....
instead just cut and paste articles (fr. up-to-date, journals, emedicine, on-line harrisons) that are important to you (ok, so not the whole thing but at least KEY parts of them!!) onto a text file and down-load them to your memos. Totally bootleg? For sure. but much more flexible.

use hard copies instead:
1) MGH "blue" pocket medicine book; a lot of residents use this. has a great run down on ddx acid/base disorders; mixed disorders; disorders with low albumin, etc, etc.
2) or perhaps the Washington Manual to Medical Therapeutics (use hard copy; PDA version is truncated and not good)
3) or Tarascon's Critical Care and Internal Medicine mini-booklet (green)... !!! actually awesome: packs quite a punch; and the miniest of 'em all.
4) photocopy the drug sensitivities found in Sandford's micro guide and tape them into your blue MGH book. now tell me one micro/pharm PDA app that beats sandford... not even the PDA sandford beats the hard copy! ha!


cheers,

 

[Mumpu]

I like Hopkins Abx guide better. It's free too. I stopped carrying Sanford two weeks into the 3rd year because I couldn't figure out how to read it. Bug your resident/atteding for hospital-specific sensitivities card.

 

[greets fr. nyc]

...Bug your resident/atteding for hospital-specific sensitivities card.

true. true.

 

[Pox in a box]

I like Hopkins Abx guide better. It's free too. I stopped carrying Sanford two weeks into the 3rd year because I couldn't figure out how to read it. Bug your resident/atteding for hospital-specific sensitivities card.

What's hospital-specific sensitivities card?

 

[greets fr. nyc]

What's hospital-specific sensitivities card?

usually the pharmacy in conjunction with the infectious disease folks compiles a list (on a handy card) of bad microbes "indigenous" to your SPECIFIC hospital which are resistant or sensitive to "x" or "y" antibiotic.

for example, a sensitivity card (3x5 note card) may have the number of cases of MRSA and the general killing sensitivities of a drug (e.g., vancomycin) to your hosptial strain of MRSA; or perhaps, the sensitivity of a nasty strain of enterococcus to an abx such as amikacin.

often they will also have the $$ of each drug / day, so you can gauge how much roughly you are costing the hospital every time you get that order for, let's say... imipenem/cilastatin ~ $$$.

ask your pharmacy main office for it. they should have these cards to give out or tell you where to get one.