Top Three Medical Apps Every Med Student Needs

For iPod, iPad or iPhone, Apple's got an amazing selection of apps, both for gaming and non-gaming purposes. Some of the best ones are in the medical category, allowing student physicians to actively learn on the go, whenever they have their hand held with them. Check out these top medical apps today!

Epocrates
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Epocrates is one of the most comprehensive medical apps available. It contains information on a myriad of drugs and pharmacological agents, diagnoses, and other information pertinent to the medical profession. Many medical schools offer licenses for their students to get the full version through the school, so definitely look into this to avoid the subscription fee, if possible. As an alternative, consider Medscape, another high-caliber medical app.

Lange Pharmacology by Modality
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There are many different apps available to help medical students master their courses in Pharmaoclogy. However, I found the Lange RX/Pharmcology app, produced by Modality, to be especially useful. While it doesn't cover quite as many drugs as Epocrates or Medscape, it does cover the majority of drugs tested on USMLE. It offers a clinical vignette for each drug or class of drugs, major uses, side effects, contraindications, and similar medications. Even more useful is the wonderful flashcard app for the drugs included in the app. You can quiz yourself over the drugs, and also refer back to the drug info page on each flashcard, without having to wait for the quiz to complete (a nice system for those with limited time). I heartily recommend this app for medical students taking a course over pharmacology!

3D Brain
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Neurology can be a rather challenging course, given the completely unfamiliar terms and language used to describe the brain. To make matters worse, the brain is not just a 2d slice, rather, it is a 3d object with complex features, multiple layers and hidden structures. It can be quite hard to visualize all the connections, pathways and layers from 2d anatomy scans and images. 3D Brain takes away the guesswork of this and gives students a complete virtual brain in 3d, movable, zoomable with the touch of a finger. It also contains a wonderful selection of labeled regions, whereby students can select a core brain system (I.e. Basal ganglia) and see all the components of that region, labeled and highlight in color. It's definitely one program that no medical student should be without. Grab it today, for FREE on iTunes!