Essential apps for busy doctors

Doctors work long days packed with many responsibilities and tasks. And this doesn’t even account for personal and family time! While technology cannot slow down the clock, these apps can help you save time—both at work and in your personal life. All apps are available for both iPhone (iOS) and Android except two which are noted as iOS only.RxFilesThis app provides balanced, non-commercial, evidence-based information that is regularly updated. RxFiles began in 1997 as a service for Saskatoon family physicians, and the first RxFiles Drug Comparison Charts book was published in 2001. It contains more than 106 drug comparison charts, including guidance on therapeutic approaches, contraindications, side effects, drug interactions, dosing information, and the advantages and disadvantages of various drugs.One-year subscription $101, two-year subscription $172. Both include newsletters, Q&As, journal articles and clinical trial summaries available on the websiteMedscapeThe app offers information on more than 8,000 prescription and over-the-counter drugs, herbals, and supplements. It also includes more than 7,500 reference articles, a drug interaction checker, over 450 medical calculators, and a pill identifier. Additionally, the app hosts events for medical professionals and provides a tailored news feed based on a doctor’s specialty.FreeMedCalXThis app provides formulas, scores, scales, and classifications, each with detailed information and bibliographic references. It includes a customizable list of favourite equations. Users can access equations by name, category and keyword, and they can share formula results by printing, emailing or copying them to the clipboard.iOS only: Free for about 100 formulas, US$4.99 for more than 200 moreJournal ClubThis app offers physician-authored reviews of recent articles from top internal medicine journals, providing concise synopses of medical research.US$6.99OtterThis app records audio and automatically takes notes in real-time. During virtual sessions, Otter captures lecture slides and integrates them into the notes. Users receive transcripts and automated summaries and can chat with Otter to get answers from meetings.Free for 300 monthly transcription minutes; 30 minutes per conversation. Other plans start at US$8.33/monthSummarize.techThis website provides summaries of long YouTube videos, including lectures, live events and meetings.Web only: Free for a limited number of videos a day. Premium US $10/month can summarize up to 200 videos a month with no daily limitChatPDFDump PDFs of academic articles or books into the app and then you can ask the AI questions and it answers based on the info in the PDF.Free for PDFs each day, each up to 120 pages, $27/month for unlimited PDFs and unlimited questions, 2,000 pages per PDFEvernoteThis app allows users to take notes through text entry, photos, attachments, audio recordings, calendar links, emails and tags. It is useful for following lectures, recording patient notes, reading articles, studying for medical certification exams or planning a calendar. Users can save webpages, PDFs, emails, videos and images.Free for access to many features, including up to 50 notes and 60 MB monthly uploads. Premium options range from $13.33/month for personal use to $25/month for a team accountTodoistThis app allows users to add tasks and receive reminders. It includes calendar, list, and board views. The app can be linked to a calendar, voice assistant and other tools such as Outlook, Gmail and Slack. Users can write tasks like “every other Wednesday starting in two weeks,” and Todoist will instantly parse it.Free for limited capabilities. Premium US$4.99/month, US$48/yearRescueTimeThis app helps users understand how they use their time and block distractions. Users can set a personalized daily Focus Work goal and receive alerts and real-time tracking of their daily goals, along with weekly reports.Free. Premium plan, US$12/month, US$78/yearOpalThis app provides a Focus Score, allowing users to check their focus level at any time. Users can block apps and websites for a set period and set daily working hours, sleep schedules and routines to automatically block apps at certain times. During Deep Focus sessions, users cannot cancel or bypass the timer.iOS only: Free for limited capabilities, monthly and annual plans for more features

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