Resources We Love
Podcasts are a great way to boost your knowledge. Try listening on your commute, doing dishes, on a bike ride. Lots of great content out there. Here is a list of some of our personal favorites. Most are linked to the page, otherwise, you can search on your podcast platform.
IM Specialties
The Dantastic Mr. Tox & Howard Show
The Internet Book of Critical Care
EMCRIT Podcast
Infectious DIsease Puscast
Critical Care Scenarios
Non-Medicine Podcasts
Conan O’Brien Need a Friend, Episode #12 – David Sedaris
This American life – Check out the LaDonna episode
The Movies That Made Me by Joe Dante
LeVar Burton ReadsRich Roll episodes w/Valter Longo and David Sinclair
Websites to build knowledge
- NEJM Resident 360
- NEJM Interactive Cases
- Internet Book of Critical Care
- Clinical Problem Solvers
- ACP Journal Wise – build your profile to get relevant articles emailed to your ACP account
- The Scope – Evidence-based medicine, weekly highlights from important papers
- The Bottom Line – Reviews of landmark papers in critical care
- Clinical Key – Lots of great texts and papers, check it out through the hardin library
Apps for iPhones and iPads that we Recommend
UpToDate – You are granted full access through your university account. You need to log onto the app once a month while on University wifi to maintain access which can be used at home.
Butterfly iQ – We have two butterflies that are stored in Dr. Smock’s office. You can check these out and use our departmental login to save images. If you download the app on your phone, you can use this portable ultrasound with your patients, carry it on rounds, text images to your fellow residents or staff.
MicroGuide – This is an antimicrobrial guide which shows the resistance patterns here at Iowa with local isolates. Great when you have identified the individual pathogen. It also gives guidance for first line for various systems and diseases such as cholangitis, pneumonia. This is updated by our local ID pharmacists regularly and is the most uptodate information for your patients.
MEDCALC – There are way too many calculations to memorize. Adjust retic count, acid base and winter’s formula, CHADSVASC, total iron deficiency. Search through their equations to find what you are looking for.
Journal Club – Paid app with great summaries on landmark papers
ICU Trials – Paid app with landmark ICU trials
ANKI – Lots of great flashcard decks out there over various topics
MKSAP – You will get access from your ACP account. There are great questions and text from chapters to review
UWORLD – Great resource for step 3 and ABIM. Expensive so many residents wait until dedicated times or lighter rotations that they can test prep
Board Vitals – Free question set. Access through Hardin library. Not as strong as UWORLD or MKSAP, but never hurts to do extra questions in your weaker areas.
Choosing Wisely – Free educational source on cost conscious care
EPIC and HAIKU Apps – Great to have with you on rounds to look at up to date labs, vitals, check for consultant notes. Not great for note writing or placing orders (can place orders with IPAD app). Contact IT to get permission with your university account.
DxSaurus – Great DDx app
USPSTF – Great for ambulatory medicine, knowing all the most up to date screening guidelines
Doximity – There is a dialer function in the app that lets you call patients from your cell phone while hiding your personal number
