Ohio State University’s med school stocking up with iPod touches
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 12, 2008 at 1:33pm
Ohio State University’s medical school has joined the ranks of colleges replacing textbooks with the Apple iPod touch this fall, reports eSchool News.
Ohio State med school officials said the iPod lets students study high-quality images of organs and body parts in the palms of their hands, on the fly. Also, the Apple device allows students to see images from several angles, take short review quizzes for helpful reminders, and access videos documenting the many steps of a surgery or procedure.
According to eSchool News, the university is one of a handful of institutions to bring iPod technology to its medical students. In July, officials at the University of Michigan Medical School unveiled the “Dr. iPod” program, which lets students watch and review lectures at any time. The iPod initiative was launched three years after the system was piloted using a video clip that tested the iPod’s video capabilities.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
