Software Recommendations

There is a huge and rapidly growing selection of medically related PDA software available, which makes the selection of PDA hardware seem easy by comparison! To simplify things, rather than listing all of the available software we have instead done our research, and made specific recommendations in fifteen categories. In some categories we have also included some alternative options that may be better suited to some uses.

Note that the Faculty of Medicine is strongly opposed to the use of unlicensed or black market software, cracks, and so-called "warez." We firmly believe that sharing or using illegally obtained software is behavior that is inappropriate.

Keep in mind that these recommendations are based on the informed personal opinions of the members of this committee, and are not official endorsements by the Faculty of Medicine, or Dalhousie University. Also, these recommendations are geared more towards medical education than clinical practice.

In general, we have listed only software that is of general use and interest; however, more detailed special reports on software intended for particular specialties are in the works, and are being added to the Documents section of this site as they become available.