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Seeking advice from iPad-owning medical school students

Most of my friends subscribe to note taking services in med school. We all went to US med schools so it is not unusal.

And when we went to under grad. We also subscribe to a note service. Perfectly legal. We still.have to do the studying and take the tests.

Some of us are just more effient at studying at our.own pace rather than be stuck in class. We just go to the mandatory antamony dissection labs etc.

Once u get to med school especially for first two years how important it is just to study on your own with your paid notes.
 
I'd say go with a 16gig. I got 32 which is great because I like having some music and movies on there, but when I get right down to it, its a luxury that probably isn't worth the $100. I view the iPad a basically a disposable work computer, which takes a beating as I use it 10 hours a day, every day, and I carry it everywhere. Because its relatively inexpensive compared to a full computer I view it as disposable in the sense that I'll get a new one every 2 years. With all the cloud storage available, I'm sure when I get iPad 3 it will just be a 16. I have several hundred textbooks on in which takes 3 or 4 gigs max (most are between 10 and 150mb), and hundreds of pages of notes and power points which are really tiny. All the rest of the space is just so I can carry around way too much music to mess around with on DJ. For flights, you probably want 2-4 movies for the trip, and even at 700mb uncompressed on CineXplayer, 16 gigs would have so much space you wouldn't even have to delete stuff. Anyways, congrats on your purchase. Perfect timing with Jailbreakme 3.0 going live. I have jailbroken my family's iPad 2's last night and after a day of heavy use they're all completely bug free. I highly suggest getting the nice new white ipad jailbroken asap!
 
mcdspncr said:
I'd say go with a 16gig. I got 32 which is great because I like having some music and movies on there, but when I get right down to it, its a luxury that probably isn't worth the $100. I view the iPad a basically a disposable work computer, which takes a beating as I use it 10 hours a day, every day, and I carry it everywhere. Because its relatively inexpensive compared to a full computer I view it as disposable in the sense that I'll get a new one every 2 years. With all the cloud storage available, I'm sure when I get iPad 3 it will just be a 16. I have several hundred textbooks on in which takes 3 or 4 gigs max (most are between 10 and 150mb), and hundreds of pages of notes and power points which are really tiny. All the rest of the space is just so I can carry around way too much music to mess around with on DJ. For flights, you probably want 2-4 movies for the trip, and even at 700mb uncompressed on CineXplayer, 16 gigs would have so much space you wouldn't even have to delete stuff. Anyways, congrats on your purchase. Perfect timing with Jailbreakme 3.0 going live. I have jailbroken my family's iPad 2's last night and after a day of heavy use they're all completely bug free. I highly suggest getting the nice new white ipad jailbroken asap!
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Thanks! Exacty the advice that I needed.
 
I'm going to be a first year medical student as well and was wondering how useful an iPad would be.

I already have a Macbook Pro, what I am mainly wondering is if there is an app to annotate and add notes to existing powerpoints. Practically everything is on powerpoint at my university so I am wondering if it would be smart to get an iPad.
 
I know its kinda off topic, but where did you guys purchase the medical ebooks?

I`m having a hard time finding them, already gave up trying to look for them in portuguese (i'm brazilian and ebooks here are very uncommon).
But even in english i have trouble finding medical ebooks!
 
I had a 16 GB wifi and after adding all my textbooks, apps and a little bit of music and movies it was full. I would go 32 and 3G as I stated before not all rotations had wifi and it is so nice to have.

Where are you guys getting the textbooks? I have some, but need more.
 
vega07 said:
I start medical school soon.

I have a 2006 Core Duo Macbook that still serves me plenty well. The reasons why I don't want to bring it to class are 1) it's too heavy and 2) the battery doesn't last long enough.

So I am considering an iPad for it's portability and long battery life for extensive note taking. But I've never used an iPad before and need advice on how current medical students are faring with their iPads. Which apps do you find most useful? Do you use a stylus? How productive are you with it?

My other options are a Macbook Pro for it's long battery life, but it's not that much lighter than my current white Macbook. Or a Macbook Air, but 5 hours I don't think can last me a whole day. But I'd love to stick with the iPad if possible for it's price.

Any insight provided will be greatly appreciated!
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The University of California at Irvine School of Medicine had a pilot program in which it provided iPads for the class of 2014. If you go to iTunes University and search for the UC Irvine School of Medicine you will find a series of video podcasts, downloadable for free, which deals with various aspects of how they suggested the devices be used. If I recall correctly one of the key apps they used was iannotate and also Notes Plus (which may not still be available).

Other podcasts dealt with organizing an entire term of notes. specific medical and anatomy apps were mentioned. Other podcasts dealt with housekeeping issues, logging in to the system, email, other iPad functions, etc

If the program is continuing, I am sure that there is some administrator that you could email about it.

By the way, I am not a med school student, but ran across the podcasts by chance and found them useful in helping me decide to buy an iPad and how basic features worked.
 
singlestick, thanks for the heads up. I am checking it out right now.

Too bad I took a year off after undergrad. I could have applied to UCI for chance to receive a free iPad! ;)
 
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vega07 said:
singlestick, thanks for the heads up. I am checking it out right now.

Too bad I took a year from after undergrad. I could have applied to UCI for chance to receive a free iPad! ;)
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You're welcome. Good luck to you.

For anyone else interested in this, the video podcast series in iTunes University is listed under UC Irvine, and is titled IMedEd + iPad Initiative.
 
I saw their iAnnotate workshop. Very, very impressed with the software. This app alone makes the iPad worth the purchase for every professional student.
 
My med school loves Apple products. With that said, they have made everything iPad and iPod touch friendly (in fact you are required to have an iOS device for attendance at times). I find the iPad to be the best gadget to have for med school - it allows me to take notes and easily organize everything in to one place. My iPad lasts just about 10 hours (bought in August 2010) and till date I have never needed to charge it at school. If needed, however, you could always sit by a power plug. I also use the Griffin stylus to take my notes and annotate using GoodReader so only thing I take with me is the iPad and the stylus along with an umbrella.
 
radiogoober said:
^^^ I know we're way off topic now, but I remember one med school I interviewed (either Iowa or Ohio) had a "pathway" where you could just study at home and never attend classes. They'd just give you the books, the notes, and a schedule for tests and you'd show up for tests. Crazy.
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sounds like the ohio state pbl pathway.
 
iPad medical case study presentation and DICOM viewer

Hi,

the iPad app Med Presenter allows to study medical cases (DICOM images) on your iPad. It further provides a presentation mode that allows to view teaching material (PDF slides) and CT, MR, NM, PT, AX and XA images side-by-side. It even supports an external display to give presentations with own slides (e.g. created with Keynote or PPT) and imported DICOM images. The viewer is quite powerful, it is not limited to standard MPR orientations. The user can navigate MPRs through large image sets in any 3D orientation. Text annotations can be added into the image sets and personal notes can be send via e-mail with embedded screenshots of the MPRs. It allows students and physicians to work with teaching material and medical images anywhere. The data import is quite easy such that students can import DICOM images that are provided in their teaching course.

Here is the link:
http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/med-presenter/id453019807?mt=8#

You can request a promo code for iTunes (the number of free codes is limited) at
medpresenter@chimaera.de
 
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