“This is one of the latest trends of smart technology available to college students that we hope will give them the resources they need to prosper in their academic career,” said Ivan Toledo, MDC assistant library director. “This resource will save them time and a commute to the campus library.”

 

Nursing students are now using their laptops as a book bag, complete with medical resources such as electronic textbooks and more. The Physical Therapy Assistant students are using iPod Touch’s from which they access programs such as iTunesU tutorials and large databases of medical information. Mobile access to medical and health sciences information has become crucial, with a large percentage of healthcare workers and students using mobile devices at the point of care. This particularly benefits students at the Medical Center Campus during their assignments in hospitals and clinics, for they have direct access to current information concerning diseases, medications and data that might assist in determining the most appropriate treatment.