It depends on the recording software that your school uses. Our system is supposed to let us watch "live" lectures, but in reality all we get is the recorded versions about 30mins after the lecture ends.
However, this is actually better as you can watch lecture at 1.5-2x and finish it a lot faster (sleep in and finish class in half the time).
In addition, there are tons of medical apps and interactive textbooks for anatomy and the like that are helpful because: you'll prob always have it with you, color photos, 3D images that allow for placement, and (the biggie) searchable text. Makes finding the specific structures a lot easier.
If you have the money to essentially waste a reusable protector, you can buy one and bring the iPad encased in the protector each day to lab and the wiki-access and stuff you can save will be amazing.
A lab-mate did this and it was very helpful, just have to be careful getting it in and pulling it out. Keep a special bag to keep the protector in, use the gloved hand to open the protector, pull the ipad out with a clean hand or a fresh glove, etc.
