Top 7 Medical Apps for Medical Students & Doctors

1.PEPID

PEPID is a frequently updated clinical decision support/reference app targeted toward emergency room physicians, but it can be useful for nurses, students, residents, pharmacists, EMTs, and paramedics as well. You can earn Continuing Medical Education Credits with it while actually treating patients.

Users must log in to PEPID the first time they use it on their iPhones or Androids, but will stayed signed in after that. PEPID automatically uploads all notes to the cloud.

Symptom Checker helps you diagnose faster by suggesting possible ailments based on your patient’s symptoms, physical exam findings, and lab results. A filtered checker alerts you to possible multi-drug interactions, all on one page, and offers dosing suggestions.

PEPID offers profiles of diseases, medical conditions, and treatment options with research from the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, American College of Emergency Physicians, and the Family Physicians Inquiries Network.

The app also offers hundreds of reference videos for clinical procedures and physical examinations, and push notifications to keep you up to date on new research, drug approvals, and black box warnings.

Pricing: Free

2.UpToDate

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Another heavy hitter, the UpToDate app can be used on both iOS and Android devices. Hundreds of thousands of physicians have installed this app, and for good reason. It is chock full of medical knowledge that allows it to answer clinical questions at the point of need.

Pricing: While downloading the app is free, in order to actually access the wealth of information contained within it, you or your organization need to have a subscription to the UpToDate database. This starts at $495 per year for an individual physician.

3.Medscape

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This app, by WebMD, is another great medical reference tool offered on iOS and Android. With it you can look up drug information, check the disease reference tool, catch up on medical news, and much more.

Pricing: The app is completely free, but does require you to register for a free account (which you can do through the app itself) to use it. It’s also ad-supported.

4. Doximity

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Doximity is a social network for doctors, and claims that 70% of U.S. physicians are members. With both iOS and Android versions, you can find and communicate with other doctors on the network, send HIPAA-secure faxes through your phone, follow news and trends in your specialty, and browse jobs and compare salaries. It’s highly-rated and frequently updated.

Pricing: The app is free to download, but does require you to sign up for membership in the network (again, free).

5. Figure1

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You can view and share medical images with other physicians using this iOS and Androidapp. Hundreds of thousands of users send, comment on, and search through medical images in Figure 1’s visual database.

This app is perfect for physicians looking for feedback on a rare condition, or seeking to see and learn about rare or textbook cases. Additionally, the app guarantees patient privacy with automatic face-blocking and removal of identifying information.

Pricing: This app is free to download and use.

6.Read by QxMD

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Like Case, Read is an app for both iOS and Android that centralizes all your medical literature and journals. Using a magazine format, it allows you to read and download studies, journals, and articles from a host of sources including open access journals, PubMed, and papers from linked institutions.

With tens of thousands of installs, and plenty of free content, this is a no brainer for physicians looking to keep current in their specialty.

Pricing: The app is free, but some journals and PubMed may require an institutional or individual subscription or credentials.

7. MDCalc

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MDCalc began life as an EM resident’s WordPress site in 2005 and today is a highly-rated resource for practicing physicians to learn and apply evidence-based medicine.

MDCalc clinical decision tools are available as iOS and Android apps. The apps offer content written by physicians and other experts that helps providers learn and apply more than 350 decision tools in the context of specific patient care scenarios. MDCalc decision tools span more than 150 disease states across 35 specialty areas.

According to the MDCalc website, more than one million healthcare professionals use the app every month, representing more than 190 countries. In the U.S., more than half of physicians use MDCalc.

Pricing: Free

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