Hi! First of all, I really enjoy reading your blog! Second, I’m a senior in undergrad who has been accepted to med school (YAY!!!), but is looking at the next year of my life with a healthy combination of fear and excitement. Not sure if you have done a post like this already, but could you offer some wisdom on surviving and thriving as an M1?
First off, congrats on getting into medical school. That is an amazing accomplishment. My first bit of advice is to really reflect on that and let it sink in. You got in!
Now I have a disclaimer. I am still in my first year of med school (three weeks from being done) so I may not be an authority. But I feel like I have enough experience to offer some advice. So take this for what ever you think it is worth. Here are some tips (in no particular order) for the coming year:
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…[Skyscape] wanted to make an awesome app that people would love and use.
And I knew I could nail this one. So I said yes and we set off to design the next game-changing tool for doctors. It’s called Omnio.
As a doctor, I know what it’s like to integrate technology into a busy day seeing patients. I also know that doctors do the same thing over and over. They need access to familiar, helpful references on a regular basis and they don’t want to hunt for it every time. They also prescribe the same 20 drugs over and over because that’s what they know and trust. We doctors are creatures of habit. Inspired by my old-fashioned doctor bag that had 95% of everything you’d ever need as a physician right there in the bag, I came up with this concept, “a digital doctor’s bag that provides quick access to the most important things to your everyday practice.”
Skyscape has thousands of medical textbooks, medical calculators, drug indexes, and any other sort of digital reference you’d need as a physician. The problem is hunting through all that when you need quick access. So a user can favorite anything in the entire Skyscape library and “put it in their bag.” However, “in their bag” means adding a shortcut to the thing on the main screen of the Omnio app.
But I am my own unique doctor. I’ve got a different “bag” than my colleagues. But I know I have awesome stuff in there that my colleagues don’t have. And I’m super curious to know what they have in theirs that makes them an awesome doctor. So we made our bags “shareable.” You can steal from my bag and I can steal from yours. The point is, let’s help each other find the best tools and share them with our colleagues. And I’m also interested in seeing what the American Academy of Pediatrics or JAMA has in their bag. So you can find and follow people and trusted institutions to see what awesome things are going in and out of their “bags.” There’s plenty of other useful features, but the centerpiece is your digital doctor bag.
Omnio launched a few months ago and it’s got a 4 and half star rating…
If I used Skyscape, I would definitely use this. But like many people, I was turned off by the atrocious Skyscape app design in the past few years. Hopefully, this new piggy-back app, fueled by Jay Parkinson’s ever-creative simply-simplifying ideas, will help turn all that around!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/425398125432dd4ef286fade8f921b0a/tumblr_mkoy5mpj5r1qz72ywo1_500.png)
