Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

Knee Manual for iPhone

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Knee manual is a iPhone application with basic information about knee anatomy, conditions and treatment. This application is priced at 2.99 $ to buy in iTunes. Currently there are no reviews in iTunes.

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SLAP tear – examination by Dr Mark Hutchinson

Monday, October 5th, 2009

This video from youtube by Dr Mark Hutchinson showing how to examine for SLAP tear. This video shows how to perform O’Briens test, Apprehension test, Mayo Shear test, Crank test, Biceps provacation test, Load shift test, Jobe relocation test.

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GI Calc for Blackberry

Monday, October 5th, 2009

gi-calc-blackberryGI Calc is a free application for Blackberry by QxMD software. It is a free application and can be downloaded from Blackberry appworld. Appworld rating is 5/5 (2 reviews)

Features as per website

This Gastroenterology app is a critical tool for anyone – not just Gastroenterologists – managing patients with gastrointestinal and/or liver disease.

  • Does your patient require admission and possible intervention for their upper GI bleeding (Blatchford score)?
  • Determine the risk of rebleeding & dying from upper GI bleeding using the Rockall score and Forrest Classification
  • Determine risk of relapse for alcohol abuse in the general population and post-liver transplantation
  • Determine severity of pancreatitis using the APACHE II score, Ranson’s criteria and the CT Severity index
  • Diagnose Autoimmune Hepatitis
  • Use the discriminant function to help determine prognosis and guide treatment in alcoholic hepatitis
  • Determine prognosis with and without TIPSS
  • Calculate Child-Pugh and MELD scores
  • Use the MELD score to determine prognosis in alcohohlic hepatitis
  • Use the Child Pugh score to determine prognosis in alcoholic liver disease

more Blackberry medical applications please visit the link

iCME for iPhone

Monday, October 5th, 2009

iCME is an easy to use iPhone application by Anubhav and Dipti mittal. This application can help you keep track of CME programmes. It is a paid application and you can buy it for 3.99 $ through iTunes.

More features as per website

iCME separates your CME into the following categories:

1. Book
2. Book chapter
3. Conference
4. Course
5. Grand round
6. Journal article
7. Journal club
8. Lecture
9. Lecture notes
10. Morbidity meeting
11. Peer review meeting
12. Self quiz
13. Workshop

And lets you:

1. Sort them by date or alphabetical order
2. Plan future CME events
3. Track overdue CME events
4. Highlight events you presented at
5. Email your CME list
6. Search for specific events using the powerful built in search function

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Diagnose the disease game for iPhone by epocrates

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Diagnose the disease game by epocrates is a nice game which shows pictures and ask you to choose from one of the three answers. The score seem to be based on number of correct answers and also time you took to answer it. It also says weekly winner will get Epocrates essentials free. I liked as it is fun to play.

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ECG Applications (Learning resources) for iPhone 3g

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

This post lists iPhone software applications that can be useful to help understand ECG knowledge an its clinical applications.

ECG apps list

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New Pubmed (Redesigned)

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

new-pubmed
I found this first from Scienceroll. Have a quick look at newly redesigned pubmed website.

Shoulder Examination: Assessing Scapular control (Is there scapular dyskinesia?) By Dr Mark Hutchinson

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

This is shoulder examination video by Dr Mark Hutchinson explaining how to assess scapular movement in particular scapular diskinesia. For more shoulder examination resources.

Shoulder Exam: Assessment of the neck and kinetic chain By Dr Mark Hutchinson

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

This is shoulder examination video by Dr Mark Hutchinson explaining Assessment of the neck and kinetic chain. For more shoulder examination resources.

Shoulder examination: Inspection and Palpation by Dr Mark Hutchinson

Monday, September 28th, 2009

This is shoulder examination video by Dr Mark Hutchinson explaining how to do inspection and palpation of shoulder. For more shoulder clinical examination resources.