 So as much as doctors like myself like to act like it's all up here, really a lot of it is in here. So in this video, I'm going to show you exactly my favorite apps to use as a physician. Let's get into it. All right guys, welcome back to channel. In case you're new here, my name is Lexian, internal medicine physician, helping you succeed on your journey by doing it with less stress. Today is going to be a fun video, because I'm going to be sharing you with you step-by-step that my favorite apps that I use on a daily basis as an internal medicine physician. Now getting into my apps, my favorite apps happen to be in my medical folder. So I'll click on here and we'll just go through them one by one. And my favorite app that I end up using right now is up-to-date. Most medical students are familiar with what up-to-date is, but basically allows you the option of basically searching anything. So if I wanted to look up a medication like I did recently, like myxilotein, which is an anti-arhythmic that we use for a lot of things, especially things like ventricular arrhythmia. So here you go. If I wanted to see what this was, I can easily look that up. And if I wanted to read about some things, let's see what topics I've looked up in the past. I looked up aspiration pneumonia and kind of guidance on antibiotics recently. So I can just kind of go treatment for things like chemical pneumonitis and read this really quickly. Now, the best part about being a physician is just being able to get through some of this information quickly, answer a question from a patient or a fellow medical student. And so really, we've gotten really good at just like searching information really quickly. So I love up-to-date. So if you don't have it on your phone, ask your institution. If they give you access and if they do, definitely make sure you put it on your device. Now, my next favorite app that I love using mainly for the source of questions because there's some downtime on my day to day, whether I'm waiting for something to happen with a patient or I'm waiting for my attending to kind of come around. I love using mixed app. And mixed app is your equivalent of something like U-World for medical school where you're essentially using questions to help you study for me. In my case, my internal medicine boards I'll be taking next year. So I can easily kind of set up quizzes. And so right now I'm on a consult service for cardiology so I can just do questions every single day. And so if I'm waiting for the attending or if I've seen patients and I'm waiting for new patients to come, I can easily do these questions. And so my performance really doesn't matter to me more so. I just kind of have these questions around and it's a really great tool because as I was making this video, I'll have to take my boards to about a year. But now having to do this in a very stressful environment and just kind of casually doing questions about the day makes it very fun. Now, my next favorite app that I love using is the Human DX app. And I talked about this in past videos, but if you're really wanting to flex your muscle as a position and see certain cases and seeing if you can solve them as information presents itself almost as if they were your patient and that's amazing. So for example, here is a 55 year old with progressive abdominal pain and weight loss. And so if I want to click on this, it gives me their HPI. That actually may be a case that I've already solved. I did. So I solved that answer already, but I can click solve right here. And this just gives me a 58 year old with ear pain and facial palsy. And then it just gives me part of their history and then click start. And it forces me to put a diagnosis. If I read about this and by a lot of ear pain, I may think about, you know, a mask or a tumor and I'm going to be very lazy here. You can just say neoplastic disease and next finding. And then it gives you their API so you can read about stuff like that. And eventually it will give you their past medical history and labs and every kind of piece of information, just like as a doctor would be able to be used to saying, oh, this is what I think the diagnosis is. And the nice part is eventually as I do cases, it'll actually will give you whether or not. So like I saw this case at some point in my life. And so I ended up getting, I think this one, I didn't get right, but the answer was CNS me core. So it's a great resource to, again, I usually end up doing this one. I am in the elevator kind of going up and trying to see that can solve the case before I get to my next patient of the day. Now, the next app that I love using is actually not in my medical folder, but it's something that I love to use. That's why I was in the middle of my phone and that is notion. Now I've made videos on how I use notion to kind of help my day to day life. Now this is something that I use for the business as well as things for my personal life. But for medical purposes, I actually like to have these folders where every time I'm kind of learning something, then I will create kind of a folder for it. Or if there's something that I want to learn in the future, I create it. For example, as I just finished a whole month on a heart failure or heart transplant service, then I basically created a bunch of different notes on things that I was reading. And the beauty of notion is that I can filter it in sorts. So for example, there is a filter right now on all the topics related to cardiogenic shock, but let's just say I want to remove that. And I click done, then it will show me all my topics that I have written and studied about in their recent past. So whether it be things like chest pain, stratification, cardiac and Lloyd, right heart failure. And so I really enjoy a notion because it just kind of gives me a lot of granularity on how I learned information. And then it's also nice because whenever I want to study or teach somebody like a medical student, then I can just say, Oh, what do you want to learn about? OK, you want to learn about inhalers or treatments of COPD or asthma? I already have a topic of that. Or if you want to learn about fungal work, have on the treatment, kind of already made these topics. And so I can easily pull this up in my phone, get on to the whiteboard and teach and most probably make sure that I tell her the information. Next up, we're going to go back into my medical folder. And one of the apps that I got as an intern that I don't use as much anymore. But I think it definitely would recommend that you guys have this on your phone. It's empty on call. Now, a lot of times you will get called to see a patient about, you know, on a cross cover service, whether on the internal medicine or a surgeon or whatever. You know, like, Oh, they're having chest pain. What should I do? What type of things should I consider? And so it's a nice little brief update on how to evaluate the different types of things that you may have to think about as well as things you can do. So if I think that they have cost of arthritis, give them an NSAID or some kind of treatment, if it's a panic attack, I can give them some Adavan. And if they're having something like bradycardia, which could be really concerning if you're a brand new doctor, then being able to understand. OK, what type of things should be considering? What type of things should be getting should be getting an EKG? Answer is definitely. And then how do I manage that? Especially if the patient is doing worse and they're possibly going to codes and here are the things that I need to know the doses that I need to be aware of. So having that in your back pocket as you're going to your patient's room and just reading about it, super helpful. Now, MD on call was an app that I had to pay for once. But again, it's been super helpful because especially when I was a brand new mentor and I was like, Oh, the patient has really high calcium. I'm not really sure what to make of that. And then it gives me a nice diagram that I can kind of look in through and say, Oh, these are my diagnosis. These are the further tests that I should send. By the time my tendon gets there for the day, I'm like, Oh, patient with hypercalcium is the order. You just kind of look like a boss. Now, the next app that I love using that is not in my medical folder, but it's just an app that I love using on my drives is things like Google podcast or your favorite podcast platform. So then I can listen to things like cardio nerds or human clinical problem solvers and just kind of check out all their cases. And if I want to watch a case for the next day, I can just click, you know, plus and then it'll be ready. Luckily, my car has Android Auto, so I can just plug this in, hit and start. And then my touch screen will actually know that I want to play this podcast for the next day, and so I'll just play it without having me connect through Bluetooth or anything. But both of those podcasts are amazing. I love kind of going through them on my day to day, but also love learning about other things. So like real estate and then watching or listening to podcasts about those, because even though you're in medicine, you need to be able to know the main things about being an adult for the future, finance being a really big important part of them. So I love using apps like Google podcast as well as reading apps described in Kindle that I can do when the day is not as busy as a doctor and try to read about something, whether it be medical or not. Now, finally, an app that I still have my phone, but I tend to use more when I was an intern and brand new to things like procedures and probably will be helpful to some of my surgeon friends or procedural friends is touch surgery. Now, this is a really, really cool app. And so I definitely recommend it if you haven't seen it. But let's just say you're going to do a bedside procedure like an abdominal parasitises. You want to take some fluid out of somebody who has like sclerosis or you want to just send it for testing. We're not really sure how to do it. So you can click start. We'll just click restart. You know, basically we'll walk you through how to position the patient, how to, you know, have the ultrasound and what you're looking for. And then I'll actually force you to like kind of be interactive and put the ultrasound there. What type of things are we looking for on your ultrasound? And as you move up and down below, and then essentially what you will be doing, we can do the whole procedure kind of virtually and kind of practice actually cleaning the patient off. So I just think this is really cool. And just just for satisfaction purpose, we're just going to do the entire thing. So drawing out the Laticaine. And this may seem obvious when you do it a few times, but if you're a brand new intern, you haven't done this procedure before, just kind of understanding like how big of a gauge of a needle should be using to inject my Laticaine, which is like drawing it up. That is super helpful. So this kind of gives you a nice picture like what you're doing inside of the body, what it looks like. So if you're ever going to do an abdominal parasitises or a central line, again, super, super helpful. That is pretty much it. But those guys are some of my favorite apps that I love using on a day to day things that I definitely use a little bit more when I'm an intern, but things like up to day and mix up and human DX. Those are apps that I use on a daily basis, as well as some of the apps I use back in medical school like Anki are still a part of my day to day. But if you guys are interested or asking me about certain other apps that you may use or heard about, make sure you drop in the comment section down below. And if you're about to start your journey and residency or you're already doing and you're kind of struggling, you want to learn how to do that better, definitely check out the interns survival guide. Or you can really see the reviews of past students have gotten that really make you into a superstar medical physician much quicker than a lot of your colleagues. 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