Overall the app is very detailed and covers a wide variety of OMM topics and related information. It serves as a very good app for quick review.

It would be helpful to use less abbreviations as at times the app  appears more to be a student’s individual study notes more than a review for other students, residents or practicing physicians. Also, there should be some improved editing to check for spelling and grammar mistakes.  Lastly, it would be better terminology to change what the authors review as counterstrain under the assessment section to tenderpoints. Counterstrain is a technique, not a diagnostic finding.

While this app also misses body areas,  sympathetic viscerosomatic dysfunctions, and helpful ways for integrating OMM into clinical assessment and treatment for a patient, it still is an overall
effective site a decent reference for most students or osteopathic physicians.

You can either look up the STD in the Topic index or easily search it. Image atlas is also provided with pictures of all the STD in this small app. Treatment algorithms are the best. It takes you through a series of questions. Based on your answer, the next question comes; ultimately providing you the treatment option with antibiotic dosage.

Features

• Includes all sexually transmitted diseases from the common (gonorrhea, chlamydia, Candidal vaginitis, herpes) to the rare (lymphogranuloma venereum, tertiary syphilis, granuloma inguinale)
• Clearly details everything you need to know about diagnosis, treatment, post-treatment follow-up, and management of sexual partners.
• Atlas of clinical images containing more than 200 photos from the Center for Disease Control’s Public Health Image Library illustrating the varied presentations of STD’s to help you make the right diagnosis.
• Never seen live Trichomonas swimming under the microscope?  You will in STDMeister (and there’s a rocking musical soundtrack to back it up too)
• Step-by-step treatment algorithms help you choose the safest and most effective treatment customized for your patient
• Full text from the Center for Disease Control’s current guidelines for the management of sexually transmitted infections is included
• Entirely self-contained on your iPhone or iPod touch. No Internet access required.
• Add bookmarks to your favorite pages
• Add your own notes to any page in STDMeister
• Expanded from a popular handheld reference in use by clinicians since 2007

Screenshots:

1. Epocrates. This application has evolved a lot since it started. It not only provides most up-to-date drug information but it also provides information on diagnostic test, symptoms, diseases and antibiotic guide. The Fee Rx app is good but the Epocrates Essentials offers a lot more.
   
2. ICD Meister. It is an app for practicing physician and healthcare professionals who needs to look up ICD-9 codes during billing process. Now you have this search capability as well as option to look up frequently searched codes right in this small app. This app will not only allow you to search the ICD-9 codes but allows you to bookmark the frequently searched codes in your favorite for quick reference later.
   
3. Medscape from WebMD. This app is new in the block but it free and offers Medical News, CME credits, Drug information, Drug Interaction informations, Physician / Pharmacy / Hospital directory with options to make call directly from the app. The Medical news is customizable to your specialty and interests.
   

At the end there are samples ECGs which are sharp, clear and very informative. There is also an option of quizzing yourself.

Each cardiac arrhythymia includes description of condition and its appearance on ECG along with the possible etiology and causes for that arrhythymia.

PediDoser lists most commonly use drugs in pediatrics in alphabetical and categorical format. Once you find the drug you are looking for, select the formulation and then you can either select the age or Weight and you have your answer in no time (See the screenshots).

It is made by MeisterMed who has developed many other applications for iPhone or iPod touch.

MeisterMed has provided us some FREE Coupon code to get this app free. These are very limited in number. If you are interested, please email us for the code at contact@iphonemedicalinfo.com.

• Disease Index mode. All the cards are categorized by organ system. For each disease, the card provides a case vignette, etiology, pathology, clinical manifestation, treatment and additional notes. Important points are bolded or italicised.
• Flash Cards mode. This mode is customizable and allow users to study all aspects of each disease. You can choose which specific aspect of the disease they want to study – clinical vignette, etiology, pathology, clinical manifestations, treatment and notes. The flash card mode is very interactive. You also get option to bookmark certain cards for future quick reference. You can also add your notes to each card.

Features include:

• More than 250 diseases covered
• Clinical vignette presentation
• Concise coverage of pathology
• Unique and interactive flash cards interface
• Search functionality
• Ability to bookmark cards for future quick refence
• Ability to add personalized notes
• All major body system covered.

You can browse the pictures by selecting the Body section.  It then given you option to select Bony anatomy, Radiographic anatomy, Ligaments, Muscles, Arteries, Nerves, Physical axamination and Conditions. Once a card is opened, you have an option to simply click on each “Pin” and see the answer OR select the Quiz mode and test yourself. It will then ask to identify certain part and if you get it write, you will get green signal and if you get it wrong, you will get red signal with option to try again.

Another great feature on each card is that when you select a pin, it will first display the name associated with pinned item. After that when you click on the displayed name, it will tell you that on which other cards this particular structure appears in and also an option to search Google for this particular structure.

You also have an option to bookmark certain cards for furture quick reference under bookmarks.

This app should be not be considered as alternative to Netter’s Textbook because it is not as detailed but it is an excellent study tool. It is still very comprehensive and will definitely replace any Anatomy Flash Cards.
Requirements:  Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later
Cost: $39.99

You can access a lot of this information via very simple interface designed specially for mobile devices, such as, iPhone and other PDA. The URL for the mobile friendly site is:

http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/sec508/

You can see the screenshots of the website below. The search engine is very robust and occurs almost in real time. You can view the ABSTRACT right there and if the articles is freely available you can even download the PDF of the article right then by following the FULL TEXT link.

You should bookmark the above URL for all your quick medline reserach. This is even better than paying for medline apps for iPhone and iPod touch.

You search it using “Keyword” form to perform a quick search of MEDLINE/PubMed. For a more powerful search, use the Advanced or Best Evidence search form.

The Advances search allows to narrow your search down to. You have option to search by author, journal, date, language specific, publication type, etc.

The Best Evidence is good tool for medical student and physicians using evidence-based medicine. It allows you search specific for Therapy, Diagnosis, Etiology and Prognosis.

1. Browse through the extensive list of categories and find your code
2. Search the medical condition using the powerful search feature. You can not only search the medical condition but also search for medical condition associated with a particular ICD-9 code.
3. Use the favorite to look up bookmarked ICD-9 codes

Special features of this app:

• The powerful search function lets you search for abbreviations & acronyms. Search for Afib, DM, CHF, SK, FTT, SCFE, AGE, NAFLD, FB, LBP, CVA, DUB, CAD – just some of the hundreds built into ICDMeister
• Search for full words or part of a word. Can’t spell De Quervain’s tenosynovitis? No problem. Just search for querv and find the code you want in seconds.
• The author claims that all of the codes in ICDMeister are current (2009) and valid (no non-billable codes). That is great plus…
• Option to adjust the font size of the text is built in the program.
• You can search the sign and symptoms to find the correct ICD-9 code that is billable
• Osteopathic (Non-allopathic) conditions are listed as well

Get it at iTunes