Monday, September 24, 2007
Introducing ourselves
TL: I am a third year pharmacy student and new to the PDA world. I bought a PDA this past summer (an HP Ipaq). So far, I like the PDA well enough. It seems to be pretty user-friendly. I plan to use the PDA mainly to look up drug information during the school year and while on rotations next year. I have loaded a couple programs on it but haven't used them much yet. I am taking a PDA class so that I can learn about programs that are available for use on a PDA.
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SE: As a 3rd year pharmacy student at the University of Iowa I am new to the blog world and somewhat new to PDA technology. I've used my PDA (Dell Axim X51V) for just under two years and I am comfortable with searching mostly drug information resources for identification and monograph information. I find other features like the calendar, notes, email and photograph storage just as essential. With lots of practice and additional skills learned in my current PDA class I hope to make the use of a PDA commonplace in my 4th year of rotations and daily pharmacy practice.
PH: I am also a third year pharmacy student at the University of Iowa. I just bought a smart phone (Palm Treo 750) at the end of the summer and am still learning how to use it. I currently have only one drug information software loaded on it, but am looking forward to testing out some others this semester. I have found the ability to use my smart phone as a PDA, cell phone and for checking email to be a great convenience. I have also been using the calendar function to TRY and keep on top of my schedule. I am looking forward to the rest of the semester, I hope to be able to make the most of my PDA in the future and I think that a class like this will help me become more comfortable with using one. The three of us have some ideas for topics we will discuss on our blog, including opinions from different types of pharmacists and pharmacy students regarding their opinions on PDAs, and electronic information sources in general. I am sure other topics will arise as the semester continues and I look forward seeing where this leads.
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