It is often said that half of what you learn in medical school will not be true anymore five years later. Knowledge and clinical practices are ever-changing and developing in the medical profession. This is why more and more medical students and professionals are relying on handheld gadgets like the new Apple iPhone 4GB to give them the information they need to make informed medical decisions and deliver the best patient care possible.

Apple iPhone 4G is turning out to be a popular choice among students and professionals, and developers of apps have caught the trend. Search iTunes or the web, and you can see that dozens of apps have been developed for the medical student and professional.

One app you can put on the new Apple iPhone 4G is Epocrates, which allows you to enter a drug’s name and find all the current information about that drug. Another is Skyscape, which keeps the medical student and professional up to date with current clinical practices and new research. Platforms for searching and reading both old and current medical research papers have also been developed for the Apple iPhone 4G, such as PubMed and Medscape. There are also apps for computing body mass index, renal clearance, and even a fetus’s age of gestation – things medical students and professionals couldn’t live without.

The new Apple iPhone 4G comes with a free app: iBooks. This will definitely be a plus for both students and medical professionals, as now they can put all their bulky back-breaking medical textbooks in their pockets.