AppsSo, I volunteered to give a talk for the UCSF Office of Graduate Medical Education WAAAAY back in early 2010 on “There’s an App for That:  Key Smart Phone Applications for Surviving Residency“. Somehow the lecture date has snuck up on me and it’s next Tuesday! I thought it was a small gathering, but it turns out it’s not. Plus, I keep getting school-wide emails reminding all the residents and fellows to attending!

In a mild panic, I’m asking for the collective group’s help.

Audience: Medical students, residents, fellows across all specialties
Time allotted: 1 hour

Here’s my brainstorming list of the best FREE apps. Remember, these apps should be useful not JUST for Emergency Medicine.

  • Evernote 
  • Dropbox
  • Epocrates
  • New England Journal of Medicine app (weekly podcast, images, videos)
  • Eye Handbook
  • Eye Chart
  • Not really an app, but the camera feature can be useful in many scenarios. For instance, photograph and email a series of EKGs to the Cardiology fellow for a possible STEMI case. Or, take pictures of an intoxicated patient’s massive facial laceration to prove that there is INDEED a large gash extending across the entire forehead.
Other apps worth purchasing:
  • Papers
  • PediStat
Anything others that you can suggest? I’m happy to give you credit for those that I mention in the talk. 
 

 

Michelle Lin, MD
ALiEM Founder and CEO
Professor and Digital Innovation Lab Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Michelle Lin, MD

@M_Lin

Professor of Emerg Med at UCSF-Zuckerberg SF General. ALiEM Founder @aliemteam #PostitPearls at https://t.co/50EapJORCa Bio: https://t.co/7v7cgJqNEn
Michelle Lin, MD