University of California Irvine School of Medicine

iPad-equipped medical school class scores 23 percent higher on exams

By Jonah Comstock 08:31 am February 13, 2013

In 2011, MobiHealthNews reported on an increasing number of medical schools instructing students to use mobile devices, including the University of California Irvine's iMedEd program, where each of the 104 medical students in the class of 2014 received an iPad from the school when they started in 2010. Now the evidence is starting to come in that tablets as an educational tool really make a...

Nine medical schools that support mobile learning

By Brian Dolan 04:19 am August 12, 2011

As smartphone and tablet usage by physicians continues to rise, medical schools are seeing the importance of incorporating these devices into their curriculum. Here's a list of nine med schools that either require students to purchase mobile devices or equip them with these devices along with a brief explanation of how these students are using the devices to further their study of medicine....