Mission statement

Welcome to “The Ohio State University College of Medicine iPod Program.”  We are excited to announce deployment of iPod Touch as a hardware replacement for the Mobile/Hand-held Program

Who will be Recieving (2008 - 2009)

III Year Medical Students

I Year Medical Students

By the year end of 2009 all Medical Students at OSU College of Medicine will be equiped with an iPod Touch. Begining 2010 only incomming medical students will recieve the devices.

Resources & Help

www.mcpdacentral.osu.edu/iPodhelp.asp

History

The PDA program was started in 2001 with Palm as the hardware and software choice. The goal of the program was to provide Medical reference material at the finger tips of medical students and incoming residents. Drug Interaction software such as ePocrates and Lexi-Comp has been at the heart of the PDA program.

The Apple iPod Touch is to reaplace Palm OS. We believe that this device will have all the medical reference based applications available by 2008-2009. Also the ability to provide multimedia lectures on the same device is a strong opportunity. These devices should enhance the capability of viewing lectures and other digital content. From a hardware capacity pint of view iPod touch is a 8GB device compared to 512MB Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices.