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This contest will run from May 17 to June 17, 2010. In order to be eligible, you must be a student graduating in 2010 from: a U.S. medical school, or a U.S. nurse practitioner program, or a U.S. physician assistant program.1. The Grand Prize will be an Apple iPod touch® (8 GB) plus a 1-year subscription to Epocrates® Essentials.
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I live in LA, land of the great commute. Every morning involved an hour on the train and bus to school. During my clinical years, the only thing that kept me from carrying 20 lbs of books and stacks of note cards to the hospital was my T-Mobile G1. I use AnkiDroid for my flashcards and the GDocs app to read notes and ebooks. Nothing feels better than reading about my patients with Unbound before rounds and nailing all the attending's questions. I don't know how I survived my 1st two years of med school without this phone.
ReplyDeleteSean Wilkie
Keck School of Medicine at USC
Class of 2010
During my family medicine rotation, I had a patient that was having vague epigastric abdominal pains and heartburn. Turned out he was positive for H. pylori, and my attending wrote him a script for a popular name-brand combination pack. On his return visit, he told me he hadn't taken any of the medication because it was too expensive and he had no insurance. What did I do? I whipped out Epocrates on my BlackBerry, and found cheaper generic versions of a PPI and 2 appropriate antibiotics. After completing the course, he came back with a negative breath test, and thanked me personally for taking the time and making the suggestion to the attending. Thank you Epocrates!
ReplyDeleteRichard Ro, MD
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Class of 2010
During my internal medicine acting internship, I took care of a patient who was admitted with congestive heart disease exacerbation complicated by atrial fibrillation. The patient had a long list of chronic illnesses and had a even longer list of medications. One evening while I was on call the patient developed acute renal failure. Using ePocrates on my Palm Treo, I was able to calculate the patient's FENa using MedMath. I then quickly entered his medication list to check for drug interactions and found that the newly-added ACE inhibitor was likely having a synergistic effect with the diuretics dose. We discontinued his ACE inhibitor, increased his IV fluids, and watched his urine output overnight. Within 24 hours his creatinine had normalized, and within a few days we were able to discharge him as planned to a rehab facility. If it weren't for the handy ePocrates consult that call night the patient may have had a much worse outcome. Thank you, ePocrates, for making it easier for physicians, nurses, medical students, and other providers to provide safe patient care.
ReplyDeleteWayne Liang, MD
Case Western Reserve University
Class of 2010