Resources with PDA Access

Online Medical Resources Available through the Brown network and via PDA

  • AccessMedicine - Provides online access to medical textbooks, and the Lange Educational Library.
    Palm OS or Pocket PC PDA and a Windows OS computer

  • Clinical Pharmacology - A resource for drug information and medication management.
    Pocket PC 2.17 and Palm 2.17, Windows / Mac

  • DynaMed – Provides point-of-care, evidence-based clinical topic summaries.
    Palm OS 3.5 and higher, Pocket PC Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 or Microsoft PocketPC 2000 (ARM/X-SCALE only), PocketPC 2002, PocketPC 2003, PocketPC 2003 SE, Windows Smartphone, BlackBerry OS4.1 and higher, iPhone

  • The Medical Letter - The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics and Treatment Guidelines from the Medical Letter are independent, peer-reviewed, non-profit publications featuring critical appraisals of new drugs, comparative reviews of older drugs and occasionally, new non-drug treatments or new diagnostic aids.
    Palm OS

  • MD Consult – Access to the full text of medical textbooks, medical journals, clinical guidelines, drug information.
    Palm OS or Pocket PC

  • New England Journal of Medicine – If you have an individual subscription.
    Palm

  • PsychiatryOnline– Brown students and faculty can register for a free personal account to access DSM-IV-TR, ICD-9-CM codes, differential diagnosis decision trees and the DSM symptom index, APA Practice Guideline Quick References, and the books Essentials of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology
    BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm, iPhone

  • PubMed – Indexes the health sciences journal literature, back to 1950.
    Palm Powered and Pocket PC

  • UpToDate – Answers clinical questions that arise in daily medical practice. Can use on campus where there is access to the wireless network.
    Pocket PC, Smartphone and Palm