Teaching Rounds: A Visual Aid for Android

11 things about Teaching Rounds: A Visual Aid

1. This teaching manual primarily focuses on physiology/pathophysiology/exam findings with the goal of providing content to make teaching and learning on the wards easier for both attendings/senior residents and interns/medical students.

2. Each topic, or card, has an image on one side to prompt discussion (ECG, CXR, physical exam finding, etc.), and the flip side includes teaching points organized in question and answer format.

3. The powerful search tool gives you word suggestions that appear in the text as you type, so it is lightning fast and helps with spelling those long medical terms.

4. This interactive app contains the full content of Teaching Rounds: A Visual Aid to Teaching Internal Medicine Pearls on the Wards by McGraw-Hill Education.

5. It features the 100 most teachable topics (clinical pearls) in an image-based presentation and will cover all the major disciplines of internal medicine, including cardiology, gastroenterology, endocrine, and infectious disease.

6. They are presented in a pocket-sized binder with removable cards so both residents and students can remove only the topics of the day or ones they need to study.

7. Most notably, they need to find time to pick and prepare topics to teach in meaningful ways without the availability of a blackboard in the learning hospital.

8. This app is very intuitive and easy to navigate, allowing you to browse the contents or search for topics.

9. The search tool also keeps a recent history of past search terms so you can go back to a previous search result very easily.

10. There are many challenges for residents when training students who are making the big "jump" from preclinical to clinical.

11. Students also need to quickly be able to grasp these concepts quickly and with the ability to recall them later.