College Of Medicine
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Personal Digital Assistants (PDA's)

PDA Workshop Series: Developing And Using A Portable Information Management System

• Prevent dangerous errors with medical calculators and PDA’s
• Read evidence-based systematic reviews anywhere, anytime
• Provide immediate patient education with images and diagrams
• Share disease information management plans
• Use voice recorder for personal notes, educational teaching, etc.
• Lecture overview: (Video available) Current uses of PDA's in medicine &  medical education - presented by Dr. Pradeep Alur, neonatologist, Provena Covenant Medical Center, April, 2004.
• PDA's Herald in New Appraoches to Teaching and Evaluating in Medical Education. Link to Bertling et al, Wisconson Medical Journal, 2003

 

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