LIBRARIANS, EDUCATORS, AND TECHNOLOGISTS:

A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO MOBILE RESOURCE INSTRUCTION

Whitney TownsendMark MacEachern

Carol Shannon

Laurie KirchmeierRoger Burns

Chris Chapman

Outline

Background @ University of Michigan The course

Mobile Resources in Undergraduate Medical Education: The History

Increasing number of questions related to mobile access to resources in sessions

Vendors providing and promoting access to their products on a mobile platform

Increase in students with their own mobile device (NOT a school initiative!)

In Feb 2010, M3s were asked "What handheld technology do you feel has been helpful for you during your M3 year, if any?" There were 52 respondents.

Helpful Hardware 38% use an iPod Touch 36% use an iPhone 16% use Pen/Paper/Book 6% use a Blackberry 2% use a Windows Mobile Smartphone 2% use a Standalone PDA

Helpful Software: 38% use Epocrates Rx or Essentials (subscription version) 19% use Wifi for Google, Wikipedia, and UpToDate 16% use Pen/Paper/Book 14% use Diagnosaurus 9% use Eponyms for iPhone/iPod*

From UMMS LRC Smartphone and Handheld Purchasing Guide:http://www.med.umich.edu/medstudents/computing/personal_computing/pda/index.html

We started with…

Which quickly became…

Which soon became unwieldy

http://guides.lib.umich.edu/healthmobile

Promoting our mobile resources: the guide

Focus on resources that are FREE to everyone or FREE through library subscriptions

NOT comprehensive NOT reviewed by librarians Cover the major platforms Be mobile-friendly

The Course: Development

3 session M2 elective (10 students)

The Course: Rationale & Objectives

LibrariansEvaluate

SelectInstall

OMESetup

devicesfor UMMS

Environment

Technologists

DesignProgramRelease

The Course: Pre-Course Survey Device Breakdown

iPhone – 6 Android – 2 iPads – 4

(users/interested)

Apps in use Calendar & Email Google Drive Dropbox Epocrates Micromedex Medscape IDDx

What to discuss?“hopefully some apps that will make life on the wards much easier next year.”

“I’m always eager to hear about apps someone else has found that work for them.”

“I was interested in learning what apps are out there [for] dx, drug dosing, etc. when we are on the wards next year.”

The Course: Our Session

Installation & Registration Focus: major clinical apps

E.g. Dynamed, Micromedex, Epocrates, E-Books, Diagnosaurus

Hands on & demos Use predeveloped clinical scenarios

App evaluation Use locally created one as guinea pig

The Course: Evaluation

Post-Course Debrief

Pre- & Post- survey next year Send checklist of to-dos to students

before course Balance Android & iPhone discussions Ensure better consistency between

sessions Create unified web presence for all of

our content

Questions?