Who can borrow an iPad?

Currently, the loaner program is only available to Duke Medical Center faculty and house staff.

What comes on the iPad?

The loaner iPads are loaded with some medical and productivity apps, including:

• ePocrates: drug information
• DynaMed: evidence-based clinical reference tool
• Medicine Central, Evidence Central, Anesthesia Central, Harrison's, Harriet Lane Handbook, and Johns Hopkins Guides: Apps from Unbound Medicine with key texts
• MedCalc: medical calculators
• ProceduresConsult: app with videos of procedures
• ModalityBody: set of atlases
• Zollinger's Atlases: set of atlases for GI, Ab-Wall, and Hepato
• Echo Atlas: Echocardiography atlas
• Lange Q&A: practice questions for USMLE Step 1, Step 2 CK, and Step 3
• AHRQ ePSS: AHRQ's preventive services app
• WebMD: health information for patients
• Pages: word-processing software
• Papers and iAnnotatePDF: PDF organizers

How long can I keep the iPad?

Loans are typically for one month, though special circumstances could make longer loans possible or shorter loans necessary.

Can I download my own apps on the iPad?

To encourage exploration, we have not blocked the ability to download apps. However, since all content will be wiped when the device is returned to the Library and since no credit card information will be associated with the iPad, apps must either be free or paid for out of your own pocket.

How do I get help using the iPad?

We will provide some quick tips and tricks when you pick up the iPad. Duke's Center for Instructional Technology has also created two useful, shared documents - a Google Doc that lists best practices and notes from the Duke iPad Users Group and a Google Spreadsheet listing popular apps.

Which version of iPads do you have?

Currently we only 3 iPad 1s and 2 iPad 3s available. The primary difference is that the iPad 3 has a camera.

For more information, please contact Megan von Isenburg at (919) 660-1131.