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The British National Formulary is the first choice for concise medicines information and trusted by healthcare professionals to support confident decision-making at the point of care.
The BNF and BNF for Children app makes it easy to access up-to-date BNF guidance on prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines, even when you are offline.
Capsule is a quiz-based learning resource designed to support undergraduate medical students in the application of medical knowledge in a clinical setting. The resource contains over 680 clinical cases which are mapped to the GMC’s Outcomes for graduates and linked to more than 3500 questions across 39 disciplines.
The clinical cases cover all the clinical specialties encountered in years 4 and 5, including medicine, surgery, paediatrics, psychiatry, therapeutics, obstetrics and gynaecology, general practice and professional studies.
Clinical case questions are MCQ based and cases are image rich with over 450 images including radiology, ECG and clinical photos.
Please note you should start setting up your bookshelf and adding publications via ClinicalKey Student. Authentication (sign in) is via your institution login option.
The NHS ePortfolio is an app accessed via web browser.
The SIGN Decision Support apps give practitioners and patients easy access to clinical guidance and support shared decision making on a range of clinical subjects.
SIGN objective is to improve the quality of health care for patients in Scotland by reducing variation in practice and outcome, through the development and dissemination of national clinical guidelines containing recommendations for effective practice based on current evidence.
For patients, the SIGN Patient Decision Support app offers easy to read and understand information about their condition based on the wide range of patient versions of its guidelines. Patient versions of guidelines are booklets that ‘translate’ guideline recommendations and their rationales originally produced for health professionals into a form that is more easily understood and used by patients and the public. The app also offers access to additional interactive features that may not be available in booklet versions.
Solstice is a wireless screencasting tool that includes the following features:
- Wireless connection to the screen - no need to fiddle with cables
- Casting from up to 4 devices at the same time on the same screen
- Casting from tablets and smartphones - the app is on your WMS iPads
- Casting just one application window from your device (as opposed to your entire screen)
Polls, quizzes Q&As and surveys. Each session has a unique identifier, you will be give the code to connect to a session. The Vevox app will be available on your mini iPad. The Vevox interface can also be connected to a Teams channel, chat or meeting.