Useful Online Tools for Medical Students

When you study medical related stuffs, sometimes you may need assistance to get a better understanding of different medical terms, get more information on a particular medical area, disease, etc

Sometimes it will take time to refer books from your library or ask from a professional. That's where you need the help from online medical resources. Let's get to know about some useful online tools available for medical students.

* epocrates - The Epocrates MedSearch tool 
provide instant access to clinical info on thousands of prescription, over-the-counter and herbal drugs, along with hundreds of disease and conditions for any website. You can put the tool on any company, hospital, group or association internet/intranet site, blog, or wiki.

* DynaMed - This is a clinical reference tool for use at the point-of-care. Provide summarized description for more than 5,000 topics. Dynamed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience, making DynaMed an indispensable resource for answering most clinical questions during practice.

* Unbound Medicine - Unbound Medicine is changing the way healthcare professionals answer clinical questions by architecting content and delivering it to mobile devices and the web.

* Visualdx - VisualDx Mobile was named a 2011 top five medical app at Harvard Medical School. VisualDx system allows physicians to search by diagnosis, build a patient-specific differential, or look up drug-induced adverse reactions by medication.