Handheld Computing Requirement

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Mobile devices and held computers have become a popular tool in medicine and medical education, due to the potential as a platform to collect and retrieve valuable data.

We have been using handheld computers in medical education at Georgetown University School of Medicine since 2002.   Palm-based devices were piloted as a requirement in the family medicine clerkship through 2005.   Based on this success, School of Medicine established a requirement in 2005 for all third-year students.  Based on student demand in 2009, the requirement of ownership has been moved to the second year and the device must either be on either the iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) or Android platform.

The device and software has been integrated into preclinical and clinical curriculum.