Ever since the rise of the tablets, we have been anxiously waiting for interactive electronic medical textbooks to show up. Inkling is finally making this dream come true on their interactive textbook platform for the iPad. Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology is the first of a series of medical books to be released on it. As one of the standard textbooks on physiology in medicine, this book seems like a great start of such a series. The book features interactive illustrations, videos and integrated assessment. Annotation features are also fully integrated, obviating one of the main disadvantages of some other electronic books. Another benefit of this electronic version is that you can buy individual chapters rather than the whole book, of which you might use only a small part. The whole book is priced $64.99, while individual chapters can be purchased for $1.99, potentially a huge cost-saving for students. Below is a short video introducing the app, and iMedicalapps has a full review also linked below. Other upcoming titles include: Essential Clinical Anatomy (by Moore et al.), Grant’s Dissector (Patrick W. Tank), Lippincott’s Illustrated Review of Biochemistry (Harvey & Ferrier) and Neuroanatomy: An Atlas of Structures, Sections, and Systems (Haines).
Product page: Inkling: Ganong’s Medical Physiology…
iTunes link: Inkling Interactive Textbook Platform…
iMedicalapps: The first interactive medical textbook for the iPad: Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology [App Review]…