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Physical Exam Essentials app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 2752 ratings )
Reference Medical
Developer: Hipposoft, LLC
2.99 USD
Current version: 3.0, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 08 Dec 2009
App size: 23.39 Mb

**Now available for iPad!**
Physical Exam Essentials is your source for a quick overview of the patient physical exam. This is the ‘must-have’ reference app for anyone studying, practicing or interested in medicine. Never forget important exam techniques again. Click “…More” to learn why you should download this App today!

***** An Essential medical app
“As a third year, this has become one of my essential apps that is on the homepage of my iPhone. Along with epocrates, eyechart, and imurmur, I use this multiple times a week. It’s comprehensive and simple to navigate! A must buy!”
- doc someday 

***** Ultimate quick and dirty
“Great for medical students or anyone who might need to brush up on a comprehensive physical exam. Complete with pictures of normals and detailed instructions, you will never go into an OSCE or examine a patient without knowing what to do. Great app!”
- Rob Kaye 

Maybe you’re in medical school with exams coming up. After gallons of coffee and many sleepless nights spent pouring over notes and textbooks, you still wonder if you’re going to make it.

Preparing for a career in medicine requires learning a daunting amount of information and technique. When facing an important test of your knowledge and abilities, like the physical examination of a patient, nerves can derail all of your memorization and confidence, in a hurry.

You know the material; you just need a little last minute boost and memory jogger to quell the stage fright. That’s where Physical Exam Essentials comes to the rescue.

This application lets you look up selected terms, view illustrations of physical exam maneuvers, read the Clinical Correlates to discover the significance of certain findings and find descriptions of special tests. Physical Exam Essentials even offers a guide for describing your findings.

Physical Exam Essentials is not a comprehensive medical reference. Rather, it is a handy overview resource that is perfect for medical students, pre-meds, health professionals and anyone who practices or has an interest in medicine. Conveniently located on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, this application provides quick, easy-to-use reviews of procedures and techniques for 14 different categories:

* The Health History

* The General Survey

* Skin and Nails

* HEENT and Neck

* Thorax and Lungs

* Breast and Axillae

* Cardiovascular Exam

* Peripheral Vascular System

* Abdominal Exam

* Male G*******a, Anus, Rectum, Prostate

* Female G*******a, Anus, Rectum

* Mental Status Exam

* Cranial Nerves

* Neurological Exam


As you can see, Physical Exam Essentials has got you covered for examining your patients. That’s not all, though. Just look at some of the other features you get!

* Attractive, easy to navigate interface
* Look up certain selected terms in Wikipedia, Google, or Google images

* Pictures in each section help to illustrate physical exam maneuvers

* Includes "Clinical Correlates" which highlight the significance of certain physical exam findings

* "Presentation Tips" included to help you describe your findings

* Includes descriptions of special tests that are not usually performed in a routine physical exam

* Content and images added and updated regularly


Forget carrying those heavy textbooks everywhere you go. Sometimes, all you need is your iDevice and Physical Exam Essentials.

Download this amazingly helpful application now. You and your patients will be glad that you did.

Pros and cons of Physical Exam Essentials app for iPhone and iPad

Physical Exam Essentials app good for

This app is great. It concisely presents the exam information, steps and rationalle on each body system of the patient. It has helpful pictures (that you can view full screen) and is very user friendly. Well worth the $2.99!
its great app. this app is very usefull for me. i think everybody should buy it, and they phone will be perfect if it has this app. thanks for sharing
This is the ‘must-have’ reference app for anyone studying, practicing or interested in medicine.
I use this multiple times a week. It’s comprehensive and simple to navigate! A must buy!”
I am not a medical practitioner or a medical student, but the information provided in this app is really interesting and good to know. At least, I know I wont be totally clueless when I go see my doctor next. Hats off to the developers!
This app is design simple for user. Download and use it now!!!

Some bad moments

Doesnt worth the money. Very limited app. The interface needs a lot of improuvement.
Users have been asking for an MSK section for a while, how hard is it to add it? The MSK exams are one of the most commonly used and this app is just not complete without it.
Where is the musculoskeletal section in this app? I would not have bought this if I realized this were not included.
Awful! Extremely bad. Dont waste your money. VERY basic material.
This is far worst app ever, very insuficient for studying, revising or just to recall. STAY AWAY. I would like a refund! I have many handouts are better than that, I knew I shouldnt have wasted my money on this!
I paid for this app. Why are you not allowing me to download it?