UCIrvine iMedEd iPad App Review App Name: Radiology 2.0: One Night in the ED – iPad Version Price: Free Brief Description: Practice reading and interpreting CT scans OVERALL Pros: Excellent app to learn to read and interpret CT images. Fantastic user-friendly interface allows to browse throughout the image with scrolling your finger on the interface. Read More…
Author: Julie Youm
Julie H. Youm, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Education Compliance and Quality
Director, Educational Technnology
UCI School of Medicine
Recruiting for Med AppJam 2012
The kick-off for Med AppJam 2012 is less than a month away. If you are interested in participating in this event, please let us know by providing your information at the following link: http://goo.gl/bCXCq For more information: Med AppJam.
iMedEd at Mobile World 2012
Mobile World was a day-long event hosted by the Information and Computer Science (ICS) Student Council held on October 3, 2012 in Aldrich Park. The goal of this event was to showcase the many aspects of mobile technologies to the UCI community. As a part of this event, the ICS Student Council invited students from Read More…
October 2012 CCD Showcase: Mobile Technology Etiquette Checklist
UCIrvine’s Mobile Technology Etiquette Checklist At the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine our philosophy on technology use during patient encounters is that mobile technologies, such as the iPad, are a useful patient education adjunct, though they should not distract from the purpose of the encounter. To assist in this endeavor, the iMedEd curriculum Read More…
iMedEd at the 2012 Western Regional Emergency Medicine Student Symposium
This yearly event was held on September 22, 2012 hosted by UC Irvine School of Medicine in collaboration with Keck School of Medicine of USC. This symposium “is intended to give 1st – 4th year medical students a closer look at Emergency Medicine in order to make an informed decision before choosing the specialty, as Read More…
Health 2.0 / Digital Literacy Elective Starts Tuesday September 25th @ 5:30pm
One week from now, we will be starting our Health 2.0 / Digital Literacy Elective. Here are the details below: Tuesday, September 25th 5:30 – 7:00pm 3rd floor Colloquium in MedEd For more information about the course, please visit: http://health2course.tumblr.com We’ll be meeting monthly, so please join us. For those of you interested in being Read More…
Tech Talk Tuesday @ 9/18/12: Anki Flashcards and Biochemistry apps
This week’s Tech Talk Tuesday included three presentations on apps to help medical students in their studies during the first and second years. AnkiMobile Flashcards were presented by Kate Xie, MS2. Kate did a demonstration of the app, both on a laptop and the iPad, and then showed students how to make flashcards using the Read More…
Tech Talk Tuesday @ 9/11/12: Inkling and Digital Textbooks
This week’s Tech Talk Tuesday “Getting the Most out of Your Digital Textbooks” presentation was led by Stephen Schale, MS1, and Adam Truong, MS1. The presentation included: An overview of the features of Inkling (iPad and web version) An overview of the features of Vitalsource Goodreader app For more information on digital textbooks for the Read More…
Med AppJam Launching November 9, 2012
We are excited to announce that the UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) and the UCI School of Medicine (SOM) along with the ICS Student Council are planning the first ever Med AppJam, an event to be held from November 9-19, 2012. What is Med AppJam? The AppJam is a week Read More…
iPad Keyboard Cases
(09/13/2012) Update: We have also had the opportunity to evaluate the Crux360 case by CruxCase. CruxCase Crux360 Cost: $99.00 Pros The clamshell design of the case gives the impression that your iPad + keyboard is now a mini-laptop. Opening up the case and using it with the keyboard is one motion, i.e., no propping of Read More…