Below are a list of the most popular apps available through the Library via our subscriptions to online resources. Instructions for adding each installing each app are provided. Also please note that the main University of Manitoba Libraries website is mobile friendly. You may bookmark it or add to your IOS homescreen by going to http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/
To find a convenient list of other free and paid apps recommended by the health sciences librarians and healthcare providers, visit the Mobile Toolkit
Type of App: Point of Care
Cost: Free
Availability: UM Faculty, Staff, and Students; WRHA staff; Manitoba RHA staff
Access: Using iTunes or Google Play for various smart phones and mobile devices
Clinical reference resource designed to provide quick access to synthesized medical information. Mobile app is available to UM faculty, staff and students; WRHA staff; Manitoba RHA. Installation instructions:
Type of App: Drug
Cost: Free
Availability: UM Faculty, Staff, and Students
Access: Using iTunes or Google Play for various smart phones and mobile devices
Full-text collection of 15 clinical drug information databases, and over 1600 drug monographs. Includes an excellent tool for checking drug interactions. A limited number of accounts are available through Library's subscription. Due to limited number of licenses, the app access restricted to certain categories of health sciences students and to faculty. To access and install please read through the following and submit and application form:
Type of App: Drug
Cost: Free
Availability: UM Faculty, Staff, and Students
Access: Using iTunes or Google Play for various smart phones and mobile devices
CPS is Canada's authoritative source for prescribing and managing drug therapy at the point of care, providing health care professionals with online and mobile access to evidence-based, reliable Canadian drug and therapeutic information. Installation instructions:
Type of App: Point of Care
Cost: Free
Availability: UM Faculty, Staff, and Students
Access: Mobile friendly website which is optimized to smart phones. An AccessMedicine App is also available with diagnosis tools.
60+ medical titles including Harrison's Online, Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Hurst's The Heart, Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, and the Lange educational library series. Installation instructions:
For the app (includes four Point of Care tools; Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, Fitzpatrick's Clinical Dermatology Atlas, Diagnosaurus, and Guide to Diagnostic Tests):
Type of App: Drug
Cost: Free
Availability: UM Faculty, Staff, and Students
Access: Mobile friendly website which is optimized to smart phones. Installation instructions:
More than 30 references that are central to pharmacy education including the complete current edition of the most comprehensive text on pharmacotherapy available today, DiPiro’s Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach
Type of App: Point of Care
Cost: Free
Availability: UM Faculty, Staff, and Students
Access: Using iTunes or Google Play for various smart phones and mobile devices
More than 1000 medical textbooks in all specialties, access to full-text journal articles, procedures videos, practice guidelines and more. Installation instructions:
Type of App: Keeping Current
Cost: Free
Availability: UM Faculty, Staff, and Students
Access: Using iTunes or Google Play for various smart phones and mobile devices
Browse your favorite journals in your medical specialty or, monitor a topic (keywords) of interest appearing in top journals. The app enables you to use your institutional login (UMNet ID and Password) to access fulltext of journal articles easily. The app has social integrations, a commenting section, and other features — letting you know the key articles your colleagues are reading.
Type of App: Keeping Current
Cost: Free
Availability: UM Faculty, Staff, and Students
Access: Using iTunes or Google Play
Use BrowZine to easily find, read, and monitor thousands of scholarly journals available from the University of Manitoba, or through Open Access publishers, covering all disciplines. Installation instructions: