What's going on guys!
J from MedSchoolInsiders.com.
In this video, we're going to go over the most useful apps on the iPad and iPhone for
med students.
Quick note about tablet devices; you do not necessarily need one for med school, however
they are very helpful, especially during your third and fourth year which is when you're
actually in the hospital and being evaluated by residents and attendings.
Their opinion of you is obviously very important.
Now, for some reason, if they see you on your phone, they assume that you're texting or
up to no good which is silly because you can be looking up information, studying flashcards
etc on your phone.
When you're on your iPad or similar tablet device, they assume that you are studying,
looking something up, reading a book etc, which again, I know it's silly because you
can be on Facebook or YouTube or whatever on your iPad.
Again, not necessary but something you should definitely keep in mind.
So anyways, let's get to it.
Let's first go over the apps that were most useful on the iPad.
So really quickly to give you guys a brief overview; I use reminders for keeping track
of assignments and due dates, notes for when I needed to jot down a quick idea, Evernote
is what I used when I was taking notes in class.
So this is my primary app that had all my notes, all my lab assignments, things like
that.
So, one of the great things about Evernote is any attachment you place in your note,
so for example, we have a PDF attached to lab 29, Evernote will actually search within
that document and display those results.
So that's a very powerful feature.
You all know that I'm a huge fan of Anki, so as you can see I have more than 2,000 cards
do.
Do as I say not as I do.
For those of you who follow me on Instagram, you know that I recently matched, so I have
much less incentive these days to be keeping up on my Anki.
All med students need to know their Anatomy and my favorite Anatomy app is called essential
Anatomy 5.
What you can do is add muscles, arteries, veins etc.
And this is all 3d.
You can get a very good idea of how different structures are related to each other spatially
and you can select an item, so for example here we have the triceps, lateral head.
If we can press I, you get more information, origin, insertion, action things like that.
We can even fade everything else, so it really just stands out.
Insight Timer, this is my favorite app for guided meditations.
I will be releasing a future video on why you should all be meditating.
Now, in terms of note-taking, a lot of my friends actually like either Notability or
Note Shelf.
Notability is the more popular of the two.
You can either draw directly on a blank canvas like I did here.
These are actually embryology notes or you can also annotate on a PDF.
So you import the PDF into Notability and you can actually write on it.
The other app I liked was Note Shelf.
So again, if you have a stylus and this works for you, you can take notes.
I have not tried the new iPad pro but I know that that stylus in that system is going to
be, a lot better more detailed than this.
Another app that is really neat is called Duet.
It actually turns your iPad into an external monitor.
So if you plug in your iPad to your computer, and now my iPad is essentially an extra monitor.
And this is really useful when you're taking notes and when you want to have, you know,
notes on one screen and then your PowerPoint or other materials on the other screen.
So, one the iPhone, it is more of the same.
Again, I have reminders, notes, Evernote, Anki etc.
The one app I really wanted to show you guys it's called Scannable.
So again, I stopped taking notes on Noteability and Note Shelf because I found that using
a stylus like this, again, this is not the iPad pro, this is a regular iPad and using
a stylus like this was a little bit too clunky for me, so what I would do is I would actually
take notes on my small notebook.
So that I would use this app to essentially scan my notes.
So then I could actually take this and save it straight to my Evernote and if I had written
down anything here, Evernote would use its OCR technology to identify those words and
when I search for those items, they will actually show up on the scanned image which is pretty
incredible.
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