Medical Apps
Whether you are a graduate, an undergraduate or a continuing student, the apps is one resource material that you can't do without, and there is a plethora of dedicated free and premium medical apps for students available.
Smartphones and tablets have already come to play a huge role in modern medical treatment, allowing instant access to accurate data, calculations, and references. Some apps allow you to better understand pharmaceuticals while others work to diagnose your symptoms and prep you for an unforeseen medical emergency. You can also read our apps for nursing students to organise their study process.
Below are a few of our current favorites for keeping you in the know. They certainly shouldn't replace your routine trip to the doctor, but they might just make things a bit easier.
iDoctor is the best tool for doctors in training to keep track of their procedures performed, hours worked, patients seen, education attended and consults given.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
UpToDate is the go-to reference for physicians at all stages, covering over 8,500 medical topics that are authored, edited, and reviewed by over 4,400 expert clinicians. For someone studying medicine, working as a medical professional, or just interested in medical news, UpToDate is a great way to keep track of medical advancements and news. UpToDate is available for download on iOS (iPad and iPhone) and Android devices.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Essential Skeleton is a medical app that covers the human skeleton’s basic anatomy. Essential Skeleton is a free app that allows users to investigate and fly through a 3D rendering of the human skeleton.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
MDCalc is a highly-rated resource for practicing physicians to learn and apply evidence-based medicine. 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.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Bloom is a self-guided therapy app that will help you manage stress and anxiety, improve your sleep, help you build better habits, and foster stronger relationships- all without interacting with a real person. Bloom is available to download for free on iOS devices.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Anatomy.app is a web-based application that uses excellent graphics, clear information, and targeted assessment to support users in elevating their understanding and furthering their knowledge of the human body. Anatomy.app provides a thorough bank of information detailing key knowledge of the essential areas of the human body. This wealth of written content is supported by detailed 3d imagery providing a realistic insight into the human body.
Devices: Web
Instant Aid is a first aid guide app ideal for school staff trained as first responders. The app's concise and clear content, supported by quizzes, helps its users keep first aid knowledge fresh. In an emergency, the app provides step-by-step guidance to trained first responders to remind them of best practices and help them follow the correct steps. Instant Aid is most relevant to a school's nominated first aiders or parents who have completed a good-quality first aid course. You can download the app for free on iOS and Android to use a subset of its material. An ongoing subscription fully unlocks the app. This review of Instant Aid looks at the quality of the app, its applications, and ease of use, not the app's first aid advice. Users should be qualified first aiders, and they should confirm that the app's first aid advice conforms with their training and best practices. Instant Aid is not a substitute for first aid training.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Anatomy 4D is a free app that uses augmented reality to let students interact with the human body. Kids must first print out a 4D-enabled image of the human body or heart from the app's Target Library. Then the app uses the camera on the device to bring to life a three-dimensional pulsing image.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Cboard is an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) web app for children and adults with speech and language impairments, aiding communication with symbols and text-to-speech. This versatile application has been designed with the support of UNICEF and provides a unique voice for those who wish to communicate using the application’s language platform. This application is free to download and is free from in-app adverts. The application is available on Google Play and a web-based platform.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
FlashGeek is a flashcard app that comes with some built-in decks and lets users create their own and share those made by other app users. As the content can be at whatever level the creator of each deck chooses, it is suitable for people of all ages. FlashGeek is available on Android and iOS devices for a low-priced single purchase that does not contain in-app purchase options or advertisements.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
NCLEX Mastery is a world class teaching tool that maximizes your results. We are upgrading our app continuously and will be raising the price of this application to scientifically engineered lightning system that teaches you with the fewest possible repetitions - save time, effort and frustration.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
GCSEPod has over 3,500 teacher-written, audio-visual podcasts produced specifically for mobile devices and containing all the right facts, quotes, keywords, dates and annotated diagrams that learners need for GCSE success. GCSEPod podcasts are designed for mobile devices so it’s like carrying a huge pile of textbooks and revision guides around with you everywhere. The GCSEPod can be viewed on mobiles, tablets and PCs and the podcasts can be downloaded for offline viewing. The education podcasts are also mapped to the curriculum and are designed to support students in the classroom, with their homework and during exam time.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
The InvisibleEar ™ app is a 3D augmented reality app specifically for biogical and medical investigation of the gross anatomy of the ear as well as the structure of the inner ear with particular attention drawn to the perilymph, endolymph of the cochlea and the petrous temporal bone using highly detailed CT data. It is aimed at high school, post 16 and medical students as well as hearing specialists. The user can either buy a 3D printed model or print glyphs that the app then engages with via the 3D AR in order for the user investigate the positive and negative spaces of the particular anatomy of the ear. It is even possible for the glyph source to be obtained from other medical references.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
3D Brain app is basically an interactive 3D brain map, or precisely, a collection of 29 individual maps showing different structures of the human brain, supported by information and reference links. The app is perfect for medical students, researchers, and educators in psychology and biology, as well as physicians treating brain disorders who might find it useful for patient education.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad