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Ranna25.com
is a medical educational website addressed primarily for medical
students and junior doctors studying in our country Sudan, yet the
scope Of this website extends to encompass all medical personnel,
inside and outside the country. The website is dedicated to the soul
of Dr.Ranna Saad Osman Bashier (1979-2005) - May God Bless Her and
his Mercy Be upon Her - . |
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ABXGuide
This is a memory monster, but if you have the room, I'd
recommend it. The folks at Johns Hopkins produce this
free antibiotic guide, which allows you to search by
drug, by bug, or by diagnosis. Each treatment protocol
gives pertinent references, and even an "expert opinion"
by a physician justifying the regimen. This is truly an
enormous amount of information at your disposal.
Further, the Hopkins Guide updates automatically when
you synchronize your device.
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DiagnoSaurus
Diagnosaurus is a free program powered by CogniQ from
Unbound Medicine. Adapted from Current Medical treatment
and Diagnosis, this program gives differential
diagnosis, cross-referenced by organ system, symptom, or
disease. The default screen is "all entries", so by
simply scrolling down to, say, "red eye," you get a
pretty comprehensive differential diagnosis for red eye.
Includes a "find" function for quick searching.
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ePocrates Rx
ePocrates Rx is the free version of the very popular
ePocrates Rx Pro. ePocrates Rx lacks the alternative
medicines information and some of the functionality of
the Pro version, but the free version is still very
powerful in its own right. The list of drugs is huge,
all drugs can be cross-checked for interactions, and the
database updates itself every time you synchronize your
handheld. This program occupies an enormous chunk of
memory, but you'll use it more than all of your other
"third party" programs combined.
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Eponyms
Eponyms is one of those rare applications that you'll
use just as much in the preclinical years as the
clinical ones. It does just what it's called: it puts
hundred's of eponyms at your finger (or stylus) tip.
Everywhere in medicine they rear their ugly
heads-eponyms. Some (Kussmaul's resps, Beck's triad) we
know on sight. Others (Angelman's Syndrome, anyone?) are
infrequent visitors. Eponyms is a database of many, many
eponyms, it's updated fairly frequently, and it's simple
to operate. Andrew Yee, MD, started Eponyms as an
iSilo document, but
it's been a stand-alone application for a couple of
years now. Dr. Yee's website is
http://eponyms.net/.
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Journal To Go
Face it: staying current with the medical literature is
a battle you'll be fighting from now on. Don't you hate
when you're on rounds and the other student shows up
with ten copies of the most relevant, pertinent, perfect
journal article ever-and it's an article you've never,
ever heard of? Journal To go is free, and it delivers
journal abstracts in topics that you choose right to
your Palm Powered device. What's more, it updates every
time you synchronize. This is definitely worth a test
drive. See yourself saying (nonchalantly) "I happened to
come across this article on paraneoplastic pemphigus...".
See it.
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Learn?!
This program works miracles. Here's the concept: you
have a bunch of flashcards and five boxes. Put all the
cards in the first box. Each time you get an answer
right, the card goes into the next box-- if not, it
stays put. When all the cards are in the fifth box, you
know them cold. Learn?! is exactly what I just
described, for your Palm Powered handheld. Flashcard
databases are easy to make, and the program is fun to
use. I relied pretty heavily on this one during the
preclinical year. The developer is Sebastian Laiblin,
his page is
here.
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LIST
List is a free database application that organizes your
data into lists. Each item on the list, when touched,
opens to its own page, and is fully editable. Several
list databases are available at
Memoware. The
developer's page is
here.
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MedCalc
MedCalc is a program for calculating several common
medical equations. If you've ever found yourself doing
the Cockcroft-Gault equation on the back of some scrap
of paper from the printer, you'll appreciate MedCalc.
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Medical Mnemonics for Palm
OS
This is a free database of many, many medical mnemonics,
and the program includes several powerful filtering
functions, so you can quickly find a mnemonic pertinent
to whatever you're studying. This is a handheld version
of the mnemonic database at
Medicalmnemonics.com, and it comes in abridged or
unabridged versions, if space is at a premium on your
device.
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My OB Wheel
This is a free OB wheel, although this program has a few
more functions than PregWheel. When you download it,
you'll be asked for a registration number, which you can
get (free) at the developer's website:
http://www.fppda.com/timob.html.
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PedsOmnibus
PedsOmnibus is a free program that attempts to be a sort
of "one stop shop" for pediatrics in your PDA. With
PedsOmnibus you can calculate oral medication dosages,
IV medication dosages, and more (including parenteral
nutrition dosing). It also has growthcharts, vital signs
by age, immunizations schedules, and patient tracking.
Like My OB Wheel, it requires a registration code that
you get free from the developers,
http://www.fppda.com/timob.html.
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Pregwheel
Pregwheel is a tiny, free program that does what a
pregnancy wheel does. No frills and very, very easy to
use.
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Shots2003
Shots is a quick reference guide to the 2003 Child
Immunization Schedule. It's updated every year, so the
next version will be Shots 2004. Tap on a vaccine to get
information, tap again to return to the graph. Shots
2003 is distributed by the Group on Immunization
Education of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine,
their website is
http://www.immunizationed.org/Anypage.asp?page=Shots2003.
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STATGrowthCharts
This is a free application that you will come to love
during pediatric clerkships. Enter your patient's values
(height, weight, age, etc.) and out come percentiles.
STAT GrowthCharts calculates weight for age, weight for
age, weight/height ratios and more. The newest version
gives you deviation from the mean, lets you calculate
growth velocity, and displays more complex graphs than
previous versions.
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STAT Hypertension JNC 7
STAT Hypertension JNC 7 condenses the recommendations of
the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committeeon
Prevention, Detection, and Treatment of High Blood
Pressure (JNC7) into one stand-alone application. In
addition to the condensed report, buttons at the bottom
of the main screen lead to convenient tables:
classification of high blood pressure, lifestyle
modifications and their predicted BP outcomes, and a
table of medications.
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PocketPearls
Pocket Pearls is an application produced by Georgetown
University that allows you to store clinical "pearls"
that you pick up during your medical education. The
program includes a "find" function. The folks at
Georgetown designed a study to test whether this program
(or ones like it) assists in the process of medical
education. To read the journal article and see their
results, go here:
http://data.georgetown.edu/dml/pda/pdf/pocket_pearls.pdf.
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