PDA Resources at Himmelfarb

The Himmelfarb Library is continuing to offer more ways to use your PDA here at the Medical Center. For example, there are two syncing stations now available at the Library. One of these is located at the public terminal directly behind the Reference Desk, and the other station is located in the 3rd floor AV Study Center. Now, if you subscribe to PDA content providers (such as Epocrates or Avantgo), you can sync and update content to your PDA while you're at the Library. The syncing stations use an infrared (IR) port to connect to your PDA; so no special cradle is needed. Both Palm OS and Pocket PCs can be used with the stations, after some initial setup.

If you haven't done so already, please visit this site. You'll find lots of useful information about PDAs in general, links to general and medical portals, medical software (textbooks, tools, etc.), listservs and discussion groups, and a suggestion box where you can submit comments or suggestions for other resources to add. We continually update this page as more resources of interest become available.

Other new resources for PDA users include the availability of free textbooks for Palm users via our eMedicine subscription. eMedicine is a new collection of resources that we recently added to our MEDLINE and Other Databases page. It can be accessed anywhere on the GWU campus. Once you access eMedicine, select “PDA/Palm Downloads” from the menu on the left-hand side to get a listing of available textbooks and instructions for downloading them. In addition to these texts, “MDConsult Mobile” is now available to anyone who already has an MDConsult account. Via this new free service, you can get news, drug updates and journal abstracts. Both Palm OS and Pocket PC platforms are supported. For more information on the service, go to http://www.mdconsult.com/offers/pm_mobile.html/standard.html

We hope you find these resources useful and we look forward to adding more of them in the future.