Technology Up-to-Date for pda / blackberry?

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Disclaimer: I'm a complete tech-*****.

Is there a way to access your school's up-to-date subscription via a blackberry / treo ? I've recently become impressed with up-to-date and wonder if anyone uses it during third year. Throw in a pharmacopia program and I'd think you would have a good resource for rotations.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Law2Doc]

Disclaimer: I'm a complete tech-*****.

Is there a way to access your school's up-to-date subscription via a blackberry / treo ? I've recently become impressed with up-to-date and wonder if anyone uses it during third year. Throw in a pharmacopia program and I'd think you would have a good resource for rotations.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

You'd have to talk to your school because they'd have to buy a license to make it available to student computers/PDAs.

 

[kdburton]

Disclaimer: I'm a complete tech-*****.

Is there a way to access your school's up-to-date subscription via a blackberry / treo ? I've recently become impressed with up-to-date and wonder if anyone uses it during third year. Throw in a pharmacopia program and I'd think you would have a good resource for rotations.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

I assume you're in a situation where you can use up-to-date on a campus computer? If so, you need what is called VPN software for whatever your device is. The school may provide it, but if not you can probably find it for cheap/free on the net by just searching for "[insert your PDA name] VPN software." If you get it online you still may need to contact your school's IT department or look on their website to find out how to log into their network. Usually all it takes is configuring the software with a couple numbers and the username/password that you normally use on the computers at school. Once thats set up, when you long into your school with the VPN software you'll essentially have access to all of the stuff that you would have if you were sitting at a computer on campus. Thats how it works at my school and at my undergrad, so I assume you'd be able to figure it out. If you're not so tech-savvy the best thing to do is find the medical school IT department and just have them hook you up. I hope that helps

 

[-Goose-]

I assume you're in a situation where you can use up-to-date on a campus computer? If so, you need what is called VPN software for whatever your device is. The school may provide it, but if not you can probably find it for cheap/free on the net by just searching for "[insert your PDA name] VPN software." If you get it online you still may need to contact your school's IT department or look on their website to find out how to log into their network. Usually all it takes is configuring the software with a couple numbers and the username/password that you normally use on the computers at school. Once thats set up, when you long into your school with the VPN software you'll essentially have access to all of the stuff that you would have if you were sitting at a computer on campus. Thats how it works at my school and at my undergrad, so I assume you'd be able to figure it out. If you're not so tech-savvy the best thing to do is find the medical school IT department and just have them hook you up. I hope that helps

Thanks. I will head to the IT dept.

 

[DOctorJay]

I have uptodate on my palm's SD card

 

[DrJosephKim]

You can access the internet-based UTD on any internet-capable smartphone. This includes a Treo, iPhone, etc. However, you'll be paying for the data use (unless you connect with WiFi). Not all phones have WiFi capabilities.

 

[GBFKicks]

I have uptodate on my palm's SD card

How did you get UTD on your palm's SD card. Is it possible to download it from my schools account?

 

[XoQo]

How did you get UTD on your palm's SD card. Is it possible to download it from my schools account?

Likely he (or someone he knows) got a personal UTD subscription. With individual subscriptions, the company mails you CDs/DVD versions of UptoDate that can be locally installed to your PDA. They have a version for the palm and a version for windows mobile.


Your school (more than likely) simply has a site license to use UTD on a group of IP addresses. Typically they don't include PDA versions (doesn't hurt to ask). Your best bet is to follow the advice above and see if VPN access will let you use the school's site license.

A caviat, because of the pricing scheme -- some schools (like mine..grumble grumble) don't pay for off campus/vpn access to uptodate. So we can only access it *physically* from inside campus walls/ports/wireless.


best of luck

 

[DrJosephKim]

Right, you need to have a personal subscription if you want the full UTD content to be stored on your device.