The Doctor’s PDA and Smartphone Handbook
Video tutorials by Dr Chris Paton on how doctors can use a PDA to help organise their work life.
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Online Video Tutorials:
The Diary
This tutorial explains how to organise your timetable with the Datebook and Calendar functions.
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The Address Book
This tutorial covers how to use the Address book to keep up to date with names, numbers and other contact details of clinical colleagues and departments
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The Task List
This tutorial covers how to use the Task List to organise your jobs for the day.
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Notes
This tutorial explains the Notes application on Palm and Pocket PC PDAs.
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Security
This tutorial explains how to set up passwords to protect the data on your handheld computer.
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About The Tutorials
DoctorsGadgets.com hosts the online tutorials to go with The Doctor’s PDA and Smartphone Handbook, by Dr Mo Al-Ubaydli and published by the Royal Society of Medicine Press.
The tutorials have been produced by Dr Chris Paton from New Media Medicine, a medical e-Learning development company. To read more about New Media Medicine’s e-Learning development services, please visit, www.newmediamedicine.com.
The tutorials require Macromedia Flash Player 8 and contain narrated videos and animations of the techniques described in the book.
If you are having difficulty viewing the videos, please use the ‘Contact Us‘ form to get in touch, or post a message on the discussion forum.
About the Book
PDAs (or Personal Digital Assistants for the uninitiated) are becoming an ever more useful tool in the life of a busy doctor. Not only can they be used to organise your life and deal with e-mails, you can now also purchase and download medical texts for use as a reference on ward rounds or during consultations.
This handbook, written by two expert-user doctors, guides you through the technology, its features and what’s available to buy or as a free download. It also explains how best to make use of your PDA in the medical context to ensure you maximise your professional efficiency and, perhaps more importantly, increase your free time.
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli & Chris Paton hold annual workshops with the Royal Society of Medicine’s Young Fellows committee, on the subject of PDAs in healthcare. Many of their findings in this book have been drawn from their experiences in these workshops. To find out more why not visit the Young Fellows website or contact the Young Fellows administrator to find out when the next workshop will be held.
