App Catalog and Self Service
2023-2024
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) |
Provided by COM | Use in the PBL Rooms to mirror your iPad to the display screen | AirPlay, Project | |
Free | Play an in-class review game using this app as your clicker. | Quiz Game | |
LINK Preloaded by CoM | Resource databases and tools available through the College of Medicine Library. | Medical Library Website | |
LINK Preloaded by CoM | FAU College of Medicine’s calendar-centered learning management system. Get all course materials here. | Course Materials, Events | |
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 | |
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) |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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) |
Free | Turn your iPad into a whiteboard. Best used with a stylus or pen. | Draw | |
$5.99 | Document reader with built-in annotation tools | Notetaking | |
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) | |
Provided by FAU | Notetaking application that syncs with OneDrive. COMIT Training available. | Notetaking | |
Provided by FAU | Email client for your @health.fau.edu email address. | ||
Provided by FAU | Full PowerPoint presentation software for the iPad. Drawing and highlighting features included. | PowerPoint | |
Free | Daily planner, task manager, To-Do list, app with reminders and integration with Microsoft Outlook. Replaced WunderList app. | Task Management | |
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 | |
Provided by FAU | Full Word software for the iPad. Drawing and highlighting features included. | Word | |
$9.99 | Use Notability to take notes, sketch ideas, annotate PDFs, mark-up photos, record lectures, provide audio feedback and more. | Notetaking | |
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) |
$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 | |
$0.99 | This app provides isolation recommendations for specific situations or organisms. Based on guidelines from the CDC. | Immunology, Infectious Disease | |
$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 | |
$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) |
Free | Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. | Neurology, Brain Anatomy | |
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 | |
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 | |
Free | Learn the complex anatomy of nerve roots, plexuses, and perip heral nerves. | Neurology, Nervous System | |
$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 |
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) |
Free | CardioVisual was awarded “2018 Best App for Heart Disease”by Healthline Media. | Cardiology | |
$0.99 | This app provides isolation recommendations for specific situations or organisms. Based on guidelines from the CDC. | Immunology, Infectious Disease | |
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 | |
$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 | |
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) |
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 | |
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 | |
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) |
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 | |
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* | |
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 | |
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) |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Free | “Read by QxMD' provides a single place to keep up with new medical & scientific research, read outstanding topic reviews and search PubMed.” | Research | |
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 | |
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 | |
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) |
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 | |
Free + in-app purchases | Step-by-step instructions for physical examinations and diagnostic testing in the outpatient setting. | Outpatient | |
Free | App includes the unified CDC childhood and adolescent schedule, the catch-up schedule, the adult schedule, and the adult medical indications schedule. | Vaccines | |
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) |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Free | Scores of calculators with really outstanding discussion, annotation, and reference to evidence. | Calculator | |
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 | |
$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 | |
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 | |
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) |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Free | Point of Care drug and disease database providing drug information, interaction checker, Pill ID, guidelines, calculators and tables. | Drug and disease | |
Free | Your single source of reliable and current drug coverage and restriction information. | Drug Coverage | |
Free | Look up medications and their cost per retailer to help guide prescription decisions. | Drug Costs *Dr. Foster Recommendation | |
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) |
Free | Examine up-to-date immunization recommendation, access practice questions, read American Family Physician and Family Practice Management journals. | Immunizations, Journals, AAFP Info | |
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 | |
Free | Research patient ASCVD risk and intervention options. | Risk Calculator, Interventions | |
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 | |
Free | The app ensures that you’re getting the most up to date health information. | Health Info, Articles, News | |
Free | Recommendations for the use of specific contraceptive methods by patients who have certain characteristics or medical conditions. | Contraception | |
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) |
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 | |
$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) |
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 | |
Free | All you need to increase your comfort, competence, and knowledge regarding hospice and referrals. | Palliative Care | |
Free- $9.99 | iGeriatrics combines various American Geriatrics Society's clinical information offerings into one easy to use application. | Geriatric Reference | |
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) |
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 | |
$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 | |
$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 | |
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) |
$1.99 | Calculates the risk factors for high bilirubin levels in newborns. | Bilirubin, Jaundice, Risk | |
Free | App color-codes charts for child, adolescent, and adult vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). | Vaccines | |
(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 |
(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 |
$4.99 | Instant access to weight-based drug dosing, IV fluid rates, weight conversions, and so much more. | Drug Dosing | |
$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 | |
In-App purchase- Free | A resource covering the entire spectrum of neonatal, infant, child, adolescent and young adult health. | Resource | |
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) |
$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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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) |
Free | The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists app. | ACOG, OB Wheel, Reference | |
Free | A tool to help ob-gyn learners as they consider if and when to induce labor in their patients. | Labor Induction | |
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 | |
Free | Recommendations for the use of specific contraceptive methods by patients who have certain characteristics or medical conditions. | Contraception | |
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 | |
Free | EFM Guide puts at your fingertips the approach, nomenclature, and management recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. | Electronic Fetal Monitoring | |
Free | Contains recommendations intended to help health-care providers determine the safe use of contraceptives. | Contraception | |
Free | An OBGYN support guide developed by Washington University in St. Louis. | Risk Calculator, VBAC, Intrauterine Growth |
Clerkship- Surgery
Application | Cost | Description | Keyword(s) |
Free | Link to the Scrub Training video from S&T | Video, Training | |
Free | Allows users to simulate common operations in a series of steps with instructions provided along the way. | Surgical procedure simulation |