Stanford Med Students Get Free iPads
Stanford medical school students won't have to carry around heavy medical books anymore, as all 91 students in the incoming class will be given iPads. It's a trial program by the medical school to integrate the mobile device into academics.
"Students are much more technologically savvy than the students from many years ago, and so as a general educational principal you want to meet the students where they are," said Dr. Charles Prober, senior associate dean for medical education at Stanford University School of Medicine. Click to Listen
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"The real advantage is having material available on a device which can link on to the internet and be complimented therefore by resources which exist online, whether they're textbooks or images or video clips," said Prober.
Prober says the change is timely because we're at a major crossroads in medical education.
