Future Doctors Join Digital Revolution in Athens, Ga.

Digital devices enhance learning, say teachers and students.

  LFour years of undergraduate classes, four years of medical school and three to seven years as a resident – this adds up to thousands of hours spent mastering facts and developing skills needed to save lives.   But the modern medical student’s new best friend is likely to be an iPad or a laptop, not a book that weighs as much as 5 pounds and costs upwards of 70 dollars. The proliferation of portable devices that provide instant access to the Internet is bringing the training of physicians into the 21st Century. Some mainstays of medical education have been digitally reincarnated. Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy, first published in 1948, has been used by generations of first-year medical students to figure out what they are seeing (and …

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