http://www.imedicalapps.com/2012/12/kindle-app-medical-ebooks-avoid-ibooks/


The following article above complains about several downfalls of iBooks in medicine. One of the limitations described in the article is that iBooks are not platform agnostic. I don't believe this is a downfall because iOS devices are beginning to dominate the healthcare field. Medical schools are giving them to medical students upon matriculation and physicians at major academic medical institutions such as Ohio State University are using them for order entry and electronic medical record.

The fact is even though you cannot pull up an iBooks Author file on your computer you can access it on the go without a WiFi connection. Multitouch iBooks on the iPad offer two important features of accessing medical content while you are a medical student or Resident. Most learning occurs on the go and can occur in the bowels of a hospital where internet access can be hard to come by. Therefore, having embedded content on a device you are already carrying with you is a huge plus. The second advantage ...you are always carrying the device because you can. You cannot carry a MacBook of PC into a patient's room or into the operating room. But you can easily tote your iPad into those places.

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Free Medical iBooks using iBooks Author-The Gallbladder by Jeffrey L. Eakin M.D. by Pinfinity

Today we are starting a blog to create collaboration and creation of medical iBooks using iBooks Author.

We believe medical education should be free and interactive in the new multitouch format offered by the free iBooks Author program released by Apple.

We have a created a prototype of this model on iTunes and it is called The Gallbladder. It can be downloaded onto an iPad 2.0 or higher please feel free to try out this learning tool and use it as a primer to start discussions on how to make medical education high-yield and free to the entire world on the iTunes market.

The Gallbladder Free iBook using iBooks Author