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iPad App Catalog

2024-2025

Cultivated in collaboration between Schmidt College of Medicine Faculty, Residents, Students, and Educational Technology Staff

Maintained by COM Ed Tech

 Course Tools

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

AirMedia

Provided by COM 

Use in the PBL Rooms to mirror your iPad to the display screen

AirPlay, Project

Kahoot!

Free

Play an in-class review game using this app as your clicker. 

Quiz Game

FAU College of Medicine Library

LINK

Preloaded by CoM

Resource databases and tools available through the College of Medicine Library.

Medical Library Website

OwlMed

LINK

Preloaded by CoM

FAU College of Medicine’s calendar-centered learning management system. Get all course materials here.

Course Materials, Events

Canvas

LINK

Preloaded by CoM

Used for PBL sessions, IQ sessions, and certain clerkships. Note: This is NOT the application, but rather a link to the web address. The online platform better suits our needs.

Discussion Boards, Small Groups

VitalSource Bookshelf

Provided by COM

Read your books online or offline, search across your full library, and create notes and highlights to help you study.

Textbooks

 USMLE Preparation Apps

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

Firecracker

Free

USMLE board exam preparation that allows students to focus on content retention through the use of a reinforcement model. Focuses mainly on content.

Flashcards, STEP Prep, Reinforcement, NSB 

UWorld USMLE Q-Bank

Subscription based (Provided by COM)

USMLE board exam preparation written by practicing physicians who excelled in the USMLE exams. Focuses on question types and strategies along with content. Includes 2 practice tests.

STEP Prep, Question-based

Quizlet

Free

A free website that provides learning tools for students, including flashcards, study and game modes. Search pre-made flashcard sets. Great for kinesthetic, auditory, and visual learners.

Flashcards, Practice tests, games, customizable

AnkiApp Flashcards

 Free

 Study flashcard app. Make your own flashcards, styled how you like or search through millions of flashcards that are ready for you to download. When you go to study, the AI chooses which flashcards you need to work on, based on a detailed analysis of your progress. It's like a coach, for your brain.

Flashcards, Practice tests, customizable

 Notetaking/Productivity Tools

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

Doceri Interactive White Board

Free

Turn your iPad into a whiteboard. Best used with a stylus or pen.

Draw

Good Reader

$5.99

Document reader with built-in annotation tools

Notetaking

Microsoft OneDrive


Provided by FAU

Access and share your documents, photos, and other files from your iOS device, computer, and any other devices you use. 

Free Secure File Storage (1tb)

Microsoft OneNote

Provided by FAU

Notetaking application that syncs with OneDrive. COMIT Training available.

Notetaking

Microsoft Outlook

Provided by FAU

Email client for your @health.fau.edu email address.

Email

Microsoft PowerPoint

Provided by FAU

Full PowerPoint presentation software for the iPad. Drawing and highlighting features included.

PowerPoint

Microsoft To-Do

Free

Daily planner, task manager, To-Do list,  app with reminders and integration with Microsoft Outlook. Replaced WunderList app. 

Task Management

Microsoft Whiteboard

Provided by FAU

Drawing/annotation canvas. Enhances teamwork by allowing all team members to edit and comment directly on the canvas in real time, no matter where they are.

Annotation and Collaboration

Microsoft Word

Provided by FAU

Full Word software for the iPad. Drawing and highlighting features included.

Word

Notability

Free

Use Notability to take notes, sketch ideas, annotate PDFs, mark-up photos, record lectures, provide audio feedback and more. 

Notetaking

Office Lens

Provided by FAU

Scan docs into clear & sharp image/PDF, to email, fax, print or save to cloud. Linked to your Microsoft account, for easy upload to OneDrive.

Scanner

 FBS Curriculum Resources

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

Human Anatomy Atlas 2023 Edition by Visible Body

$24.99 

(Provided by the COM during M1 year)

3D models, cross sections, MRI scans, cadaver images, 3d moving models of muscles and bones, and more.

Anatomy,  Augmented Reality

Infection Control Pocketbook

$0.99

This app provides isolation recommendations for specific situations or organisms. Based on guidelines from the CDC.

Immunology, Infectious Disease

Muscle & Bone Anatomy 3D

$4.99

A reference for anyone interested in the human musculo-skeletal system. Featuring five different ways to learn about the body: The VIEWER, ACTIONS, 3-D MODELS, six types of QUIZZES, and MEDIA.

Anatomy

Pocket Heart App

$0.99

3D Beating Heart App, redefines what engaging medical education content truly is with its elegant design, interactive quizzes, clinical cases and over 30,000 words of learning material.

Anatomy, Cardiology

 NSB Curriculum Resources

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

3D Brain

Free

Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. 

Neurology, Brain Anatomy

BrainAnatomy

Free

 An interactive human neuroanatomy atlas. You will find: lateral surface of human brain, dorsal surface, medial surface, many coronal and horizontal sections and all brodmann areas.

Neurology, Brain Anatomy

Firecracker

Free

USMLE board exam preparation that allows students to focus on content retention through the use of a reinforcement model. Focuses mainly on content.

Flashcards, STEP Prep, Reinforcement, NSB 

Nerve Whiz

Free

Learn the complex anatomy of nerve roots, plexuses, and perip

heral nerves.

Neurology, Nervous System

Pocket Brain 

$0.99

Includes 8 layers of detail and more than 30,000 words of learning material. It also includes 13 high yield cross sections, important nerve pathways and clinical cases.

Neurology, Brain Anatomy

Stroke Scales for EMS by Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Free

The Stroke Scales for EMS app is designed for emergency medical services (EMS) and health care provider audiences to help them identify stroke severity and emergent large vessel occlusion (ELVO) in emergency situations. The app includes the LAMS, RACE, CPSSS, FAST-ED, and VAN stroke scales.

Neurology, Strokes

IMAIOS e-Anatomy

Free + in-app purchase

IMAIOS e-Anatomy is an atlas of human anatomy for physicians, radiologists, medical students and radiographers. Try before you buy: visualize more than 8,500 medical and anatomical images for free before subscribing and gaining access to our medical labels.

Radiology* 

* Recommended by Dr. Weinert

 

PT Curriculum Resources

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

CardioVisual: Heart Health

Free

CardioVisual was awarded “2018 Best App for Heart Disease”by Healthline Media. 

Cardiology

Infection Control Pocketbook 

$0.99

This app provides isolation recommendations for specific situations or organisms. Based on guidelines from the CDC.

Immunology, Infectious Disease

Lose it!

Free

Set goals and establish a daily calorie budget that enables you to meet them. Stay on track each day by recording your food and exercise and staying within your budget. 

Nutrition, Diet Project

Pocket Heart App

$0.99

3D Beating Heart App, redefines what engaging medical education content truly is with its elegant design, interactive quizzes, clinical cases and over 30,000 words of learning material.

Anatomy, Cardiology

VisualDx

 Free


Provides physician-reviewed clinical information with thousands of medical images showing the variation of disease presentation through age, stage, and skin type.

Diagnosis, Dermatology


FOM Curriculum Resources

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

Duke CPR

Free

Compression-only CPR doubles a person's chance of surviving sudden cardiac arrest. This app walks viewers through the simple steps for performing compression-only CPR.

CPR

Red Cross First Aid App

Free

Instant access to the information you need to know to handle the most common first aid emergencies. Includes videos, interactive quizzes and simple step-by-step advice.

First Aid

STB: Stop the Bleed

Free

Life-threatening bleeding can be fatal in minutes. Use this app to learn techniques recommended by the Stop the Bleed campaign to apply pressure and possibly save lives in an emergency.

Tourniquet Training


Radiology Curriculum Resources

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

Differential Diagnosis Guide 

Free 

 Thoracic Radiology Differential Diagnosis Guide is a convenient way to review differential diagnoses for chest CT findings and discover common CT imaging presentations associated with many diseases. Includes over 100 meticulously curated CT images.

Differential Diagnosis, CT

IMAIOS e-Anatomy

Free + in-app purchase

IMAIOS e-Anatomy is an atlas of human anatomy for physicians, radiologists, medical students and radiographers. Try before you buy: visualize more than 8,500 medical and anatomical images for free before subscribing and gaining access to our medical labels.

Radiology* 

POC_US: The Ohio State ultrasound app

Free 

POC U/S, is a guide to obtaining high quality ultrasounds of patients at the Point Of Care. It is intended to guide medical students, ultrasonography students, medical residents and physicians through the steps for obtaining each view within seven categories of point of care ultrasonography. The app also indicates the correct probe to use and gives tips for obtaining high quality images. Where appropriate the app provides information for calculating various clinical parameters.

Ultrasound

Radiology 2.0: One Night in the ED

Free

A series of cases that allow the user to simulate reading CT scans at a PACS workstation. Extensive discussions following each case include labeled images that highlight pathologies and relevant findings. 

Radiology, Cases, Pathology


Library Resources

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

Clinical Key

Provided by CoM Library

ClinicalKey is a Point of Care clinical information resource that provides access to selected books, journals, guidelines, drug information, patient leaflets, CME credits, an image database, RSS subject feeds and news bulletins.  

Point of Care Research

MedOne (by Thieme)

Provided by CoM Library

“MedOne by Thieme is the companion app to Thieme's E-Book Library. To sign into the app, users will need to first create a user name and password while logged in to Thieme MedOne Education via the FAU Medical Library Website: https://library.fau.edu/medical/resources 

Research

PubMed

Provided by CoM Library

PubMed Hub app provides comprehensive data search scientific research. 

Direct Access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=faulib

-Easy search, favoring articles and browsing history at finger tip

-search with any words in the search bar to get the scientific articles with author names and abstract. If full text available which will be shown in the app if not available, which can be re-directed to publishing journal.

Research

QXMD Read

Free

“Read by QxMD' provides a single place to keep up with new medical & scientific research, read outstanding topic reviews and search PubMed.” 

Research

Mango Languages

Provided by CoM Library

An online self-paced language learning system covering over 40 languages and including 16 ESL classes taught in the native language. Download the app to get your first language in any language for free. Link your profile to FAU Libraries to gain full access to Mango content.

Language Learning

UpToDate

Provided by CoM Library

UpToDate is a subscription based resource designed to provide physicians access to current clinical information. Access is limited to College of Medicine students and a designated subset of College of Medicine clinical faculty. Instructions for creating and re-verifying your UptoDate account are available at https://library.fau.edu/medical/uptodate. 

Research

Access Medicine

Provided by CoM Library

Search across a number of medical resources such as videos, podcasts, images, infographics, and textbooks, including Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine

Point of Care

Research


Point of Care- Reference

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

AHRQ ePSS

Free

The Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) is a quick hands-on tool designed to help primary care clinicians identify the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients. (Provided by the Department of Health and Human Services.)

Diagnosis, Screening, Drug Information

Family Practice Guidelines

Free + in-app purchases

Step-by-step instructions for physical examinations and diagnostic testing in the outpatient setting.

Outpatient

Shots Online

Free

App includes the unified CDC childhood and adolescent schedule, the catch-up schedule, the adult schedule, and the adult medical indications schedule. 

   Vaccines

Skyscape Medical Resources

Free

“Everything you need in one app.” Includes comprehensive drug information, over 200 interactive tools, medical calculator, resources, articles, and more.

Calculators,  Articles, Drug Information


Point of Care- Tools

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

AHRQ ePSS

Free

The Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) is a quick hands-on tool designed to help primary care clinicians identify the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients. (Provided by the Department of Health and Human Services.)

Diagnosis, Screening, Drug Information

Calculate by QxMD


Free

A clinical calculator and decision support tool. Focused on highlighting tools which are actually useful in clinical practice and serve to impact diagnosis, treatment or determining prognosis.

Calculator, Diagnosis

Canopy Medical Translator

Free

Look up translations for questions and statements in 15 different languages for every aspect of a physical exam. Read aloud included for most languages.

Translator

MDCalc

Free

Scores of calculators with really outstanding discussion, annotation, and reference to evidence.

Calculator 

MediBabble

Free

MediBabble is a history-taking and physical exam application designed to improve the safety, efficiency, and quality of care for non-English speaking patients. Spanish included, but additional languages available as free downloads from within the app.

Translator

QuickEM

$4.99

 Rapid bedside reference designed by an emergency physician for medical students, interns, residents, and attendings who are working in the emergency department. 

Bedside, EM, Decision Tools

Red Cross First Aid App

Free

Instant access to the information you need to know to handle the most common first aid emergencies. Includes videos, interactive quizzes and simple step-by-step advice.

First Aid

 Mango Languages

Library Resource

An online self-paced language learning system covering over 40 languages and including 16 ESL classes taught in the native language. Download the app to get your first language in any language for free. Link your profile to FAU Libraries to gain full access to Mango content.

Language Learning


Point of Care- Drug Information

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

ACEP Toxicology Section Antidote App

 Free

 The Antidote app is a resource for emergency care providers to have easy access to dosing regimens for a variety of medications and antidotes used for common poisonings encountered in emergency medicine.

Poisoning antidotes

Anticoag Evaluator 

Free

Calculate and weigh a patient’s risk for stroke and risk for bleed to help decide on the use of oral anticoagulants.

Antithrombotic therapy

*Dr. Foster Recommendation

CDC Opioid Guideline

Free

The tool is intended to educate providers about the prescription opioid overdose epidemic and to inform clinical decision-making related to initiation, titration, and dosage safety when prescribing opioids.

Opioids, Pain Management

Epocrates

Free

 Point of Care drug and disease database providing drug information, interaction checker, Pill ID, guidelines, calculators and tables.

Drug and disease

Formulary Search 

 Free

 Your single source of reliable and current drug coverage and restriction information. 

 Drug Coverage

GoodRx

Free

Look up medications and their cost per retailer to help guide prescription decisions. 

Drug Costs

*Dr. Foster Recommendation

LexiComp

Free

Keep updated with Lexicomp, the most trusted and comprehensive resource for mobile drug and clinical information for pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.

Drug Information


Clerkship- Community & Preventive Medicine

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

AAFP and STFM

Free

Examine up-to-date immunization recommendation, access practice questions, read American Family Physician and Family Practice Management journals.

Immunizations, Journals, AAFP Info

AHRQ ePSS

Free

The Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS) is a quick hands-on tool designed to help primary care clinicians identify the screening, counseling, and preventive medication services that are appropriate for their patients. 

Diagnosis, Screening, Drug Information

ASCVD Risk Estimator

Free

Research patient ASCVD risk and intervention options.

Risk Calculator, Interventions

Calculate by QxMD

Free

A clinical calculator and decision support tool. Focused on highlighting tools which are actually useful in clinical practice and serve to impact diagnosis, treatment or determining prognosis.

Calculator, Diagnosis

CDC

Free

The app ensures that you’re getting the most up to date health information.

Health Info, Articles, News

CDC Contraception

Free

Recommendations for the use of specific contraceptive methods by patients who have certain characteristics or medical conditions. 

Contraception

CDC Vaccine Schedules

Free

App color-codes charts for child, adolescent, and adult vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

Vaccines


Clerkship- Critical Care/Anesthesia 

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

Anticoag Evaluator 

Free

Published by American College of Cardiology, Recommended by Georgetown. Make well-informed decisions on antithrombotic therapy for your non-valvular AF patients with the updated AnticoagEvaluator.


Antithrombotic therapy

QuickEM

 $4.99

 Rapid bedside reference designed by an emergency physician for medical students, interns, residents, and attendings who are working in the emergency department. 

Bedside, EM, Decision Tools


Clerkship- Geriatrics/ Palliative Care

 

Application

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

Geriatrics at Your Fingertips

Free- $9.99

Geriatrics At Your Fingertips™ is an essential tool for all healthcare providers and trainees who care for older adults. It contains specialized, up-to-date evaluation and management strategies for common geriatric conditions and disorders.

Geriatric Reference

Hospice in a Minute

Free

All you need to increase your comfort, competence, and knowledge regarding hospice and referrals.

Palliative Care

iGeriatrics

Free- $9.99

iGeriatrics combines various American Geriatrics Society's clinical information offerings into one easy to use application. 

Geriatric Reference

Palliative Care Fast Facts 

Free

Palliative Fast Facts for iOS is the official mobile version of the Fast Facts database.

Palliative Care


Clerkship- Medicine

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

Calculate by QxMD


Free

A clinical calculator and decision support tool. Focused on highlighting tools which are actually useful in clinical practice and serve to impact diagnosis, treatment or determining prognosis.

Calculator, Diagnosis

Journal Club

$6.99

Journal Club reviews the top articles in internal medicine, and puts landmark trials at your fingertips. 

Database of Major Studies

*Recommended by Dr. Foster

QuickEM

$4.99

 Rapid bedside reference designed by an emergency physician for medical students, interns, residents, and attendings who are working in the emergency department. 

Bedside, EM, Decision Tools

VisualDx

 Free


Provides physician-reviewed clinical information with thousands of medical images showing the variation of disease presentation through age, stage, and skin type.

Diagnosis, Dermatology *Recommended by Dr. Foster


Clerkship- Pediatrics

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

BiliCalc

$1.99

 Calculates the risk factors for high bilirubin levels in newborns.

Bilirubin, Jaundice, Risk

CDC Vaccine Schedules

Free

App color-codes charts for child, adolescent, and adult vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

Vaccines

CM Child Protector

(by Children’s Mercy Hospital)

Free

This app will assist Children’s Protective Services, law enforcement and medical personnel when evaluating children who may have been physically abused.

Child Abuse Evaluation Guide

CM PedsGuide 

(by Children’s Mercy Hospital)

Free

Users have access to step-by-step management recommendations for different acute illness scenarios that incorporate evidence based practices and expert opinion.

Point of Care

Pedi QuikCalc 5

$4.99

Instant access to weight-based drug dosing, IV fluid rates, weight conversions, and so much more. 

Drug Dosing

Pedi STAT

$4.99

Pedi-STAT is a rapid reference for RNs, paramedics, physicians and other healthcare professionals caring for pediatric patients in the emergency or critical care environment.

*Recommended by Dr. Sperling

PEMSoft 

In-App purchase- Free

A resource covering the entire spectrum of neonatal, infant, child, adolescent and young adult health. 

Resource

Simply Sayin’

Free

The award-winning Simply Sayin’™ app uses pictures, sounds and a family-friendly glossary of terms to facilitate clear conversations between the healthcare provider, child, and family.

Conversation facilitator


Clerkship- Psychiatry

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

DSM-5-TR® Diagnostic Criteria

$75.00

The DSM-5-TR® Diagnostic Criteria Mobile App has been fully redesigned and is a concise companion to the ultimate psychiatric reference, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR®). It includes the fully revised diagnostic classification, as well as all the diagnostic criteria from DSM-5-TR® in an easy-to-use format. This handy reference provides mental health practitioners, researchers, and students quick access to the information essential to making a diagnosis.

Diagnosis, DSM 5 Official

DSM-5™ Differential Diagnosis

In-App Purchases

View select topics to experience the 6-step diagnostic framework and interactive decision trees to discover how this app can help all health care professionals narrow down an accurate psychiatric diagnosis. 

Diagnosis, DSM 5 Official

HeadSpace

Free w/ 

in-app upgrades

Learn to relax with guided meditations and mindfulness techniques that bring calm, wellness and balance to your life in just a few minutes a day.

Meditation, Anxiety, Mindfulness, Stress

Psych Drugs & Medications: Psychiatric Meds Guide

Free

With Psych Drugs, you can learn important and useful information about various psychotropic medications such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and anti-anxiety medications.

Medications


Clerkship- OB/GYN

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

ACOG

 Free

 The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists app.

ACOG, OB Wheel, Reference

APGO Induction of Labor 

Free

 A tool to help ob-gyn learners as they consider if and when to induce labor in their patients.

Labor Induction

Bishop Scores

Free

App helps a clinician decide whether proposed induction of labor is likely to be successful and consider whether cervical ripening is warranted. 

Labor Induction, Cervical Ripening

CDC Contraception

Free

Recommendations for the use of specific contraceptive methods by patients who have certain characteristics or medical conditions. 

Contraception

CDC STD Tx Guide

Free

The STD Treatment (Tx) Guidelines mobile app serves as a quick reference guide for doctors and related parties on the identification of and treatment for STDs.

STDs

EFM Guide

Free

EFM Guide puts at your fingertips the approach, nomenclature, and management recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Electronic Fetal Monitoring

iContraception

Free

Contains recommendations intended to help health-care providers determine the safe use of contraceptives.

Contraception

WUSM OB Calc

Free

An OBGYN support guide developed by Washington University in St. Louis. 

Risk Calculator,     VBAC, Intrauterine Growth


Clerkship- Surgery

 

Application 

Cost

Description

Keyword(s)

Scrub Training Video

Free

Link to the Scrub Training video from S&T

Video, Training

Touch Surgery, Surgical Simulator

Free

Allows users to simulate common operations in a series of steps with instructions provided along the way.

Surgical procedure simulation