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PDA Requirement FOR CLASS OF 2011
Rev 1.29.09 ek
Hardware Requirement: All second year medical students must have a PDA by the first day
of Year 2 Spring Semester--Monday, January 5, 2009. Revision: New Deadline is Wednesday, January 14, 2009.
The minimum PDA equipment required is:
- Palm Operating System (OS) version 5.X w/Expansion Slot and 64 MB
- Treo Smartphone 755p
- Treo Smartphone 700p
- Treo Smartphone 680
- Treo Smartphone 650 with additional 128 MB card
- Centro (phone)
- Tungsten E2 with additional 128 MB card(non-phone)
- Palm TX (non-phone)
- OR...
- Windows Mobile 5 (rev 12.10.08) and 6 Classic or Professional OS (Standard version of this OS does not meet requirement. Surgery Flash Cards, Mini Mental Status and Growth Chart programs currently do not run on any Mobile 6 device.) on the following models only:
Comparison Chart for Palm Handhelds
Comparison Charts for Palm Smartphones
FYI: WiFi or Bluetooth is NOT required.
Synchronizing Requirement:
Students are expected to synchronize
their PDA with their home computers a minimum of once a week
preferably at the end of the week in order to send Patient Log
data and receive important updates from UCLA AvantGo server.
We also have ports available in the Med West building and the
TLC for synchronizing.
It is recommended that you synchronize
each day or every other day so that the information in your
PDA is backed up onto your computer. When you synchronize, it
is also a good idea to charge your PDA at the same time.
TIP: Be sure to keep your PDA charged and backed up onto your home computer. It
is possible to lose your data if it runs out of power.
Software Requirement for Year 2 Students:
Software Requirement for 3rd/4th Year Students:
- The PDA Requirement Committee has
identified software programs available in four of the
categories listed above.
Pharmacopeia (Required )
ePocrates
Rx FREE (2nd yr; Palm OS & Windows Mobile 6 OS)
Epocrates Essentials FREE
(3rd & 4th yr; Palm OS & Windows Mobile 6 OS; available in June )
Peer-reviewed drug information including off-label indications
and formularies in an easy to use format. Includes over 2800
drug monographs and the ability to check up to 30 different
drugs for potential interacations. Also allows user to look
up adult/peds dosing, contraindications/cautions, drug interactions,
adverse reactions, Mfr/cost information and other information
(i.e. pregnancy, lactation and mechanism of action). Drug database
is updated daily. Memory requirement: 3.0 MB (3,000K) minimum
+ 10K per formulary selected.
Transferring Essentials from Another Handheld Platform to iPhone
Medical Calculators (Required - Select One)
The elements of a good medical calculator include an "info" function and formulas.
Document Readers (Required - Select
One)
TealDoc $19.95 Palm OS only
Has ability to manage large documents by "indexing" topic areas
for easy access. Currently used for the UCLA Housestaff Manual.
TealTool $19.95 Palm OS only
Used for creating Teal Docs.
CSpotRun FREE Palm OS only
Enables you to view a document horizontally or vertically.
i-Silo
$19.95 Palm OS & Windows Mobile 6 OS
Displays HTML formatted pages. The shareware version requires
a registration fee. There is a freeware version available, but
it is not fully functional.
Security (Required - Select One)
LockMe! $12.00
To keep patient data that you store on your PDA secure, use
this free program that allows you to set a password on the PDA
that activates at any interval that you set (e.g., every 24-hours,
to every 4-hours).
TealLock $24.95
Built-in PDA Security in your own unit
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