Yale Med School students get iPads

Please get a better grammar checker. "Yale School of Medicine will supply all of its students with an iPad 2. " Is incorrect. It should be "Yale School of Medicine will supply all of its students with iPad 2s. "

UC Irvine medical students also got the iPad 2: http://ocunwired.ocregister.com/2011/08/05/all-uci-medical-students-get-ipad-2/10251/

As well as Stanford's medical students: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/aug/26/med-school-gives-students-ipads/

Ohio State University College of Medicine has had an iPod touch program going on for years, and it's been featured on Apples website as well. Students (like myself) are distributed a new iPod touch (or the value if we want an iPhone) for podcasting the lectures posted to iTunes U. Its also great in our clinics for looking up drugs/interactions, and as a portable device for studying whenever we have time.

Here is the Apple link, including video of its usages: http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/ohio-state/

I'm not sure I get the numbers so it costs $100K a year to print out supplies. If you don't include environmental cost of producing the paper for the material then it would take 6 years of using the same iPads (which don't break) to recoup the same costs. Moreover, I would think those same iPads will be outdated and will have to be replaced with another $600K investment. I like the idea of having an iPad as a way to reduce waste, but justifying it as potentially a cost cutting maneuver is not being honest.

This is also true for Cornell Med (http://weill.cornell.edu/education/resources/webservices/iPad_faq.html). We've also received e-books, Pages, iAnnotate PDF and our own cloud space to store docs. It's been pretty great so far.

Few years?? Guess iOS 8 won't run on these iPads so the price would be higher