title: Personal digital assistants: a review of their application in graduate medical education.
abstract: Personal digital assistants (PDAs) have become widely used in medicine and may be especially useful in achieving the goals of graduate medical education. The complex challenges that residents and their program directors in graduate medical education programs confront may be met more readily with the use of these devices. The PDA's ability to serve as an informational database, an organizer of patient-specific information, a tracking tool that can be used by program directors to enhance curriculum design, and a tool for conducting education research are some of the ways that these devices might favorably affect residency training in graduate medical education programs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 410 Lakeville Road, Suite 207, New Hyde Park, NY 11042, USA. mattana@lij.edu
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mattana
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Charitou
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mills
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baskin
authors.forename: Harry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Steinberg
authors.forename: Conan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kerpen
mesh_terms: D034201:Computers, Handheld / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D014481:United States