Physik's Lists (EPOC) uses the in-built EPOC database program and so it should be familiar to use and will work on the full range of EPOC machines. Flexibility is another important advantage since different people will have different preferences in the way they like to search and view such data. (Unfortunately, the EPOC database program can not replicate the categories into which the records are arranged in the original Physik's Lists (Palm) version.)
There are many different ways to search the data, including the "Cards" view, "List" view and the "Find" function. Each way may be appropriate at different times depending on what question you are trying to answer, how familiar you are with the format of the data and how you choose to edit the data yourself. The animation below illustrates just one approach :
What are the causes of B12 deficieny and what is the normal value of B12 ?
The data is fully editable and you may even come up with a format to present the information that is better than mine ! I will be keeping the structure used at present under review and adapting it for use on the forthcoming EPOC “Quartz” devices. Upgrades will be free to registered users that want them (if you have already changed much of the original data then you may wish to continue with your version instead).
Impressed ? Interested ? Uncertain ? Let me put it another way ...
What use is a text book if you
can't always have it with you ?
What use is verbose writing when
what you need are the key facts ?
Wish you could edit what it says
in your chosen reference handbook ?
Embarrased by the state of your
dog-eared "peripheral brain" ?
Is your white coat over-loaded
with reference materials ?
Still using hand-written "flash
cards" to revise for exams ?
What you need is ... Physik's
Lists !
Physik's Lists is a medical reference containing >1 000 files which cover basic science, clinical features, eponymous syndromes, differential diagnoses, investigations & their interpretation, normal laboratory values, clinical guidelines, key published papers and includes a full list of all abbreviations used. This information is easy to access, fully editable and takes up only ~300 KB of memory. Physik's Lists should be particularly useful for medical students and physicians in clinical settings and revision for exams. It aims to complement rather than compete with more comprehensive texts and it can easily be tailored to an individual's own needs.
This “peripheral brain” has already proven to be the most popular of its kind for the Palm platform (there are several thousand users) and I hope that healthcare professionals using EPOC machines will find it equally useful.
A sample of Physik's Lists (EPOC) can be obtained here or the full version is available for £17 or $25 from these sites :
so far
people have had nowhere better to
go on the internet