Apps - Library & Knowledge Service

Handy Apps - for clinical support/decision making.

BMJ Best Practice
Use the new BMJ Best Practice app to find answers quickly online or offline. Access is available to staff and students as part of your NHS OpenAthens account. Contact the Hanley Library for further details.

Dynamed
The clinical reference tool that healthcare professionals go to for answers. Content is written by a world-class team of clinicians who synthesize the evidence and provide objective analysis. Access is available to staff and students as part of your NHS OpenAthens account. Contact the Hanley Library for further details.

Anatomy TV
Test your anatomy knowledge using the world’s most accurate 3D human anatomy model.

Medscape from WebMD offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape from WebMD automatically delivers to you a personalized specialty site that best fits your registration profile.

Android
Apple

PubMed for Handhelds
Physicians and researchers can have difficulty keeping up with the continuing expansion of medical information, novel diagnostic tools, and therapeutic discoveries reported in the medical literature. They need to access relevant information when they need it and where they are -- for example at the point of care. PubMed for Handhelds can help inform clinical decisions.

Apple users must have iOS 6.0 or later on their device. Although PubMed4Hh continues to be available, you may find that it does not work well on newer mobile devices. You may prefer to simply use the web version of PubMed -- as of 2020, it is optimized for handheld devices.

The British National Formulary. The children's BNF is also incorporated in this app.

Android
Apple

Gray's Anatomy - Student Edition
'Gray's Anatomy', the renowned classic anatomical book by Henry Gray was first published in 1858 and is considered by many to be one of the most iconic and significant medical books of all time.

Android
Apple

Gray's Anatomy
'Gray's Anatomy', the renowned classic anatomical book by Henry Gray was first published in 1858 and is considered by many to be one of the most iconic and significant medical books of all time.

Android
Apple

Diagnosaurus® DDx This quick-reference tool helps healthcare professionals perform differential diagnosis with speed and confidence at the point of care.

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